A couple of years ago I featured adorable Sumpy the sump pump. We’re getting a lot of rain, and I was expecting Sumpy to kick in, but he can’t help tonight, because there’s water coming in from the other side of the basement, around the water supply pipe, where it’s never been before. After getting tired of using the wet-dry vac, I came up with this idea to get the water into a bucket, and it’s working OK.
Denro is heading to New York for a comic book show at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Seventy years ago, the Cafe Rouge at the hotel was a hotspot for hipsters to hear the biggest of the big bands, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra…
Why doesn’t the GOP just come out and say they want no changes at all to the way health care is paid for? And why don’t Democrats sidestep the 60-vote requirement?
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Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2 has been playing this a lot lately.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2010/FEB/Moonlight.mp3]As I’ve noted before, Prue Bury’s home in France is for sale, and so is a former home of Charles M. Schulz.
Hmm… TV needs updating. A 65″ plasma or ceiling-mounted LCoS projector would do nicely.
Is this the Peppermint Patio?
Well, it seems that Abbey Road Studios aren’t up for sale, after all.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2010/FEB/TheWorldAbbeyRoad.mp3]Even if it were, Andrew Lloyd Webber promised over $50 million to buy the place.
Meanwhile, Paul McCartney will be playing Phoenix and Los Angeles next month.
Here’s a bit of Paul at the brand-new Citi Field in New York last summer, before we saw him at ancient Fenway Park in Boston.
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