Dropping Like Flies

[James Ford]

I do. Ten minute drive to the Metro. Long term parking at Metro for $4.75 for as long as I want (free if i come home on a weekend). Then 20 minute Metro ride to National.

Definitely beats a 40 min drive and $10/day parking at Dulles and then waiting in the parking lot for a shuttle to come by and pick you up.

I think the better question is "Why would anyone choose Dulles over National?"

Does anyone even fly out of National?

[shemptiness]

I was just trying to point out there are many, many things named after Reagan. 

[hutch]

National is by far my preferred airport... Dulles blows.

[azaghal1981]

And to them we say...

somebody died . . . now fuck off.

Scottish musician Twitter is unreal right now. Never seen such an outpouring of glee for the death of somebody.

twitter.com/plasmatron
twitter.com/aidanjohnmoffat
twitter.com/mogwaiband

Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette

There's something distinctively creepy - in a Roman sort of way - about this mandated ritual that our political leaders must be heralded and consecrated as saints upon death. This is accomplished by this baseless moral precept that it is gauche or worse to balance the gushing praise for them upon death with valid criticisms. There is absolutely nothing wrong with loathing Margaret Thatcher or any other person with political influence and power based upon perceived bad acts, and that doesn't change simply because they die. If anything, it becomes more compelling to commemorate those bad acts upon death as the only antidote against a society erecting a false and jingoistically self-serving history.

Yay somebody else here reads Glenn Greenwald.

[hutch]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9980978/Margaret-Thatcher-was-barbaric-and-a-terror-says-Morrissey.html

[vansmack]

She was a saucy minx.

[Got Haggis?]

Jonathan Winters

[azaghal1981]

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/69699?recache=1&t=1231311&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news5

Judy Garland, the new Sex Pistols?

[Unsanity]

Oh man this one hurts. Always been a huge Deftones fan and always hoped he would come back from this.

http://www.examiner.com/article/deftones-bassist-chi-cheng-succumbs-to-medical-complications-after-5-year-coma

[Jaguar]

Hey Beav,

.... Lumpy Rutherford.

[shemptiness]

Pat Summerall.  Unlike the shouters of today, he was smooth, elegant and understated.   

[Jaguar]

Scott Warren Miller

[kosmo vinyl]

this one really hurts -  genius yet one of the most under appreciated pop song writers out there.  And he was only two years older than me

Scott Miller  - Loud Family / Game Theory

http://www.loudfamily.com/index.html

[azaghal1981]

Evan Funk Davies is playing a bunch of Loud Family and Game Theory right now on FMU: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50290

Kosmo, I think this show should be up your alley anyway.

[azaghal1981]

This is great stuff. Only heard a song or two in passing before tonight. Going on until midnight.