Archive for April 24, 2007

There are no words

UPDATE: I stand totally corrected on this post. See Lisa’s comment below. The whole hoax is actually a great story.
My humble apologies for missing the joke. My only defense is that it wasn’t quite funny enough or well written enough to be recognized as satire. (cf. pretty much everything in The Onion)
But it’s still [...]

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Oh the Humanity!

A little mishap during the basketball playoffs in Chicago:
“The Bulls have a blimp — called the ‘Bull-imp’ — that soars majestically over the crowd during games, sometimes dropping little t-shirt patties onto the frenzied attendees. During Game 1, the blimp lost power and plummetted into the waiting arms of the fans, who grabbed onto and [...]

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