Pre-blizzard update.

Waiting for Draco.

Gift idea.

Slippers! AND: Hat. AND: The Official Althouse Gloves (for when it's not that cold).

"For those who insist they've located the least essential, or least sport-y Olympic discipline..."

"... may I present — via Kon Ichikawa's essential 1965 documentary Tokyo Olympiad — 50 kilometer Olympic race-walking?" Wait! ...

Obama's "Choom Gang."

Everyone's reading this , so I thought you might like to talk about it. Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story deali...

"Sarah [Palin] quickly tossed the beloved hat in the trash, explaining to me that it was 'icky.'"

Frank Bailey tattles on Sarah. Apparently, she referred to some elderly male supporters as the "crazy old men's club." One of...

The solemnity of the Bucky Badger hat.

At Saturday's protest. Partly visible sign appears to say: "I [heart] NPR/ Actually Fair & Balanced."

We heard about the 4:30 rally at the top of State Street and got there in time to hear a couple speakers try to rile up the crowd...

... Should Wisconsin have to "worry about being an international human rights violation, having conditions where the U.N. should interv...

"People my age don’t want to put hats and scarves on in their homes..."

Old people in Britain are cold. Ironically, I read that while wearing mittens. I've been trying to warm up my hands for the last hour. I...

Robert Downey Jr. is Mr. Peanut.

Great! I've always loved Robert Downey Jr. and Mr. Peanut: But why is the nutcracker named "Richard"? Background on Mr. Pean...

"'We are going for a ‘Hicky’ Blue Collar look,' read the casting call for the ad, being aired by the National Republican Senatorial Committee."

“These characters are from West Virginia so think coal miner/trucker looks. 'Clothing Suggestions' included jeans, work boots, flann...

What Venus wore.

I question the hat. ADDED: The most shocking picture has been relocated. It's here . It looks NSFW, and since NSFW is really only about...

The David Brooks column about Joe Biden brings back a memory of my grandfather and makes me ask a question about Wilmington, Delaware.

David Brooks has a column today called "Hoping It's Biden," and I noticed this: Biden is a lunch-bucket Democrat. His father ...

"Tried to find my hat first. I never did find my cigarettes."

Video of a man sitting in a diner when a car plows through the wall, obliterates the booth, pins the man against the counter, and doesn...

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendshop.

In the previous post , I remarked on one shopkeeper's disinclination to talk me into buying a hat, compared to "so many sales peopl...

"I would say, 'Go, Obama, you're black enough for me.'"

I was traipsing about San Francisco yesterday, and, snapping dozens of pictures, I made my way over to Fillmore Street for a little window s...

Shopping with Chris.

Back on April 5, Chris and I went shopping on South Congress Street in Austin. It was that day we ate the calamari at Vespaio . I like the n...

Freakishness for fall.

The Style section in today's NYT is full of frightening stories, almost like it's a special spoof edition. First, we see that the ne...

Unwinding.

Here's the lobby of my hotel. Does it look familiar? Have you been here? There's a nice fire over there in the fireplace. Isn't ...

Camilla and Charles.

I see from my referral records that someone just visited here after Googling "camilla parker bowles 'horse face.'" Look, t...

The kitten bowler hat.

This discussion on Metafilter about an optical illusion involving a paper cutout of a dragon led one poster to write "I just found per...