The world is just awesome

I admit it, this Discovery Channel commercial makes me happy. Who doesn't love giant squids? (via kottke.org)

They forgot enormous trees, and tool-using birds and massive waterfalls, and...well, you can't fit all the awesomeness into a 60-second commercial anyway, can you?

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I'm really bad about remembering birthdays, but today I can get a bunch in one fell swoop. Happy birthday to patgreene, mactavish, and amberite!

Continuing a fine, long-standing tradition

(And by that I mean "this is what happened with some amount of success last year".)

I'm inviting all y'all local types to crash also_huey's party, which (edit: I HEAR, not that I'm RUINING THE FUN by INVITING people!) will in turn be crashing my birthday party. It'll be fun. And full of meat.

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James McMurtry & The Heartless Bastards
with special guest
Date: Friday 6/6/2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Cost: $25.00

Let's see if I can remember to get tickets for this (at the Birchmere) before it sells out. Chad, remind me to take a little walk over there to the box office next time I come by?