Had use of a better camera. Here's a phone pic I took yesterday of a poster inside the Capitol:

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An 11-year-old won today's signs:

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See, here's what I'm up against:

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N reasons my phone needs to be fired ( Read more... )

My Premier League fantasy XV, going into the Gameweek 1 deadline, after much revision: goalkeepers Edwin Van der Sar and Tim Howard; defenders James Collins, Jody Craddock, Patrice Evra, Aaron Hughes, and Ryan Shawcross; midfielders Lee Bowyer (!), Barry Ferguson (!!?), Aaron Lennon, Florent Malouda, and Gnegneri Yaya Toure; and forwards Jermain ( Read more... )

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NED 2:0 SVK Slovakia deserve more than a copy of the home game for winning the game of the tournament so far over Italy (Spain-Chile was shaping up as that yesterday, until the Swiss exerted their influence to kill two games at once). They deserve better unis, for one thing. They'll be remembered fondly, but probably also as Holland's first ( Read more... )

Ten out of sixteen is terrible for knockout-stage picks; it's barely better than chance, and actually worse than chance when you figure that at least eight of those should be gimmies. Let's just call "wearyingly few surprises" a clever stroke of superstitious reverse-psychology and leave it at that. This tournament has been a joy so far, if for ( Read more... )

Every World Cup I've posted picks somewhere, and I could do it again now, but this time around mine just aren't that interesting. My bold prediction for SA 2010 is wearyingly few surprises. Climate and altitude nullify any home-continent advantages African sides might otherwise enjoy, so have fun watching European and CONMEBOL teams run rampant ( Read more... )

J.D. Salinger was alive?