A displaced boy from Swat valley sleeps under a mosquito net outside his tent at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 26, 2009.
A displaced boy from Swat valley sleeps under a mosquito net outside his tent at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 26, 2009.
An elderly gunman known to authorities as a white supremacist fatally shot a private security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington today before being wounded by guards who returned fire, officials said.
White supremacist? Really? They still exist? Can’t we give them an island somewhere to dominate to their hearts content?
Kansas - Dust In The Wind
I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment’s gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
So strange, so cute.
My wife once told me that if something were to happen to her, I should remarry. I told her that I wouldn’t even think such things, but she grew insistent.
“You have to. Who will take care of you? Of the house? Of the kids?”
Finally I relented. Big mistake.
“Wait,” she said. “When you get remarried, will you sleep with her here? In our bed?”
I thought about it for a moment, and then I told her that would make sense as there was no use blowing a good bedding investment.
“And,” she went on, a bit petulantly now. “Would you let her wear my clothes?”
I reasoned that, as she would no longer need them, if there were any clothes that my new wife would be interested in, it would make sense to let her wear them.
My wife looked to our closet and eyed her brand new golf clubs. The ones I had just bought her for her birthday.
“Would you let her use my new golf clubs?” She was near tears by now thinking about how, in her mind, I had already replaced her.
“Of course I wouldn’t let her use those clubs,” I assured her. This appeared to greatly relieve my wife, and she visibly brightened. I continued, “She’s not right handed, you know.”
Away We Go
Screenplay by Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and starring that guy from The Office. Rad.