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Day 6 of NBM: Go Bike to Sleep
Today was the national Bike to School Day! I celebrated by driving my daughter to school in our car and then returning home to sleep til 12:30. An unconventional approach, sure, but we all have to observe Bike to School Day in our own way. I didn’t sleep last night (maybe because of the giant […]
11.6.1860: Abe Lincoln Elected
Today we look back on the momentous day Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States, an event that sparked secession and the Civil War, which lasted the entirety of his presidency. He was re-elected in 1864, and then assassinated only 5 days after the end of the war in 1865. Going into the […]
6-Line Poem
You don’t see too many freestanding sestets out there—usually the 6-line stanza is paired with an 8-line stanza (the octave) to form a sonnet. Emily Dickinson, though, always did her own thing and created a self-contained sestet. Here it is: Behind Me Dips Eternity Behind Me — dips Eternity — Before Me — Immortality — […]
6 Russian Idioms
When learning a new language, idioms often present the greatest challenges to sounding like a native speaker. Idioms are those weird little phrases that you naturally pick up over time but don’t actually make literal sense. Here’s a sentence loaded with idioms: I have a soft spot for the black sheep; he’s always the underdog. […]
11.6: Whiskey Wednesday
Technically, Whiskey Wednesday was 1 week ago, as celebrated by The Hairpin post that supplied today’s Roofpig content. But, time is a fluid construct and art belongs to us all and life is what you make it and thus the following wholesale large-scale no-fail ripoff of the The Hairpin’s stellar idea: poems mentioning whiskey. In […]
Six Pack: The Movie
Remember when Kenny Rogers’ face was not terrifying? Gaze upon his completely human visage in this movie:
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The question is not “why is a photo of Nikki Sixx here?” but “why was there a photo of Shout-at-the-Devil-era Nikki Sixx on the Rotten Tomatoes site at all?”
6 Flags over Texas
Six flags have flown over Texas in its history as a colonized/settled area, as six different nations have had sovereignty over the territory. 1. Spain: 1519-1685; 1690-1821. The original colonizers who somehow lost out to the French for 5 years in there. 2. France: 1685-1690. Not so impressive, France. 3. Mexico: 1821-1836. Well, this one […]
3.6: We Wills Remember the Alamo
March 6 was the day the Alamo fell and Bob Wills was born (not the same year). Bob Wills, born in 1905, was known as the King of Western Swing and his songs featured not just nifty swinging tunes but crazed little yowls peppered throughout the song. You can hear these weird interjections in “San […]
Roof Pig! Most Unexpected. 