Showing posts with label Maryland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maryland. Show all posts
Friday, November 6, 2015

Democratic Debate Tweets (2 of 3): Starring Martin O'Malley as Hercules

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Here is our second tweet script from tonight's debate at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. These tweets were taken as Martin O...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

(10 for 10; 6th Entry): Virtual Postcard from Maryland

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Greetings to our blog readers in New Zealand, Jamaica, and Sweden...... Today, we feature an image of Keyote (pictured) the mascot of th...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Comic Strip Survey: For the First Time, We Check Out the Baltimore Sun

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Greetings to our blog readers in Hong Kong, Turkey, and Germany........ This week for the first time in the eight-year history of th...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Breaking News Tweets: Riots in Baltimore

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Here a compilation of tweets regarding the rioting in Baltimore which escalated yesterday; the top image is from the 1968 riots which ...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

The Last Ten CDs We've Listened To: Nothing Goes Together Like Rush and The Go-Gos

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For those of you in France, the land of Lucky Luke (who is called Red Kit in Turkish) and Asterix, we want to take a moment to remembe...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Our Top Sunday Washington Post Comics of the Week for Dec. 7th

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Greetings to our blog readers in Lithuania, Ukraine and Georgia! There are many comic strips which don't get into even the large...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Quotes from Famous Authors (2 of 5): Margaret Atwood

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"Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine," Margaret Atwood. SIDEBAR: We learned from The Urban Diction...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Sunday Comics Survey from The Washington Post: We Love WUMO

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Greetings to our blog readers in Algeria, Serbia and Lithuania. Today, we reveal our ten favorite comic strips from the Sunday editi...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Virtual Postcard from Maryland: The Mascot of the Frederick Keys

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Maryland is home to the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore, the grave of Peley, the Little Rascals' dog in the D.C. 'bur b ...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Quotes from Off the Beat and Path (2 of 6): John Waters

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When we last posted 12 days ago, Robin Williams was still alive, everyone from Bill Gates to Didier Drogba to the Florida State women'...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Tweets from Sunday Night: Scientists Study Crabs

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We were hoping to get a blog post in yesterday as July 20th is the date when the late American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the fir...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Comic Strip Dialogue from The Washington Post: Grandpa Going Fishing

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  Greetings to our blog readers in Canada, Canada, Canada and South Africa!   To explain the images, which are in reference to ...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

Weather in the Mid-Atlantic: Snow, Ice and Rain

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With this snowy image of the Humpback Covered Bridge in Covington, Va., a town that is one hour northwest of Roanoke, which is seeing incl...

An Ice Storm in Any Language

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Greetings to our blog-readers in Kazakhstan, Italy and Guatemala. We hope the weather is better where you are. Here in the mid-atlantic pa...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

DC Week (6 of 8): Cong. Reps from Blue States

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Today, Cong. Chris Van Hollen (pictured top) made headlines when he was informed by Cong. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who was presiding i...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Today We Mark Our 8th Year of Blogging

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It was a very dark and stormy night (apologies to the late Charles Schultz, the creator of "Peanuts"), on that fateful day on Se...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

7 Words in Turksih (4 of 7): Dolphin

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Dolphin=Yunus One can see dolphins and other sea animals at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland (see links below): http://www...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

High Schools of the Week_ From Northside HS to Northwestern HS

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Since we last blogged about our high school films, we thought we'd dedicate at least one entry to 'our favorite high schools...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Blogging in 3.5 Minutes or Less_ Our Favorite '80s High School Films

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Whether you are a supporter of Cong. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) or Cong. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), you will probably agree that brevity is not o...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

And, Now a Quick Word from Our Sponsors- Cola Turka

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Tonight's sponsor is Cola Turka, a product that once featured commercials with Chevy Chase, yes that Chevy Chase, you know the one who...