interactive maps!

This is cool. It is an interactive map from GOOD magazine, via stumbled upon, of all of the flights in Europe over the course of when transportation was shut down in central Europe (ie, the UK, France, Spain, etc) and when it picked back up again.

Sorry, to you usual readers, that I have not posted in a while.

Remember this guy?

It seems like we can’t stop posting about him. Well, he’s doing a 60 Minutes interview. And if I had a television, I’d watch it. More here. It’s the end of the line. One and half weeks left of class. Weird, right?

insomnia

Remember this?

Well, the Opinionator is a great nytimes blog that I love to write about, although I haven’t been reading it as heavily anymore. For reasons I’m unsure of, my interest in the news has dwindled over the past year. Even my op-ed obsession has fallen to the way-side, something I never thought I’d live to see. But every once and a while I come across something that is just your style. More from the same guy anddddd here is his website. It’s cool and in flash, so make sure your computer can handle it. He must have some serious sleeping problems because just like the last posting and cartoons he shared with the times, this too is about insomnia –something I’m glad I’ve never really suffered from aside from nights that fit into their own category of restless thoughts and daydreams. Enjoy!

comics, music, growing up, etc.

So Spring Break, right? It’s Eels, James Brown and On The Beach (thanks, michael) while riding my bike through a neighborhood that I cannot manage to get lost in, despite the fact that I do not know my way around. It’s all a big circle. After many rainy days, OK-two rainy days, and a completed/mailed internship application to Chicago Public Radio and a house to myself I am enjoying time however I want. In the last day I’ve eaten about an entire pound of green grapes. Also, I am on the look out for an inexpensive road bike to purchase. Please keep me informed. Until then, here are things I want to share with you that I’ve stumbled upon.

VICE magazine. I want to work there, maybe. Here we have this. The picture below compliments it well I think.

Also, VICE brings us the latest in butt health.

click the pic for the story

Basically everything YOU are interested in comes from VICE’s latest publication……check her out.

Also, there’s GOOD magazine. Here is an interactive on the two earthquakes that recently quaked Chile and Haiti. And if you are a ‘young adult’ (yes, erica, we are growing up SOMETIME soon…) you might want to move away to explore something new. Four of these cities are in Texas. The only two people I’ve ever met FROM Texas (Austin, that is) are really great, smart people. Don’t write it off. Until then, peruse some internet, ride some bikes and listen to poly-sonic-pleasantness, however you may define it.

i don’t get ben stiller…

But people love giving him press. And people love him! He’s been in movies none of which are my favorite. I’ve always hated Zoolander (no matter what, you cannot convince me.)  Although I do love the Royal Tenenbaums, who doesn’t love Wes Anderson?!

The New York Times is almost-kind-of profiling him because of this new independent movie he made called “Greenberg“. I do not know what it is about. I did see the trailer quite a few months ago on apple trailers. I remember being unimpressed by it. Who knows, maybe we’ll all be surprised?

My spring break is just as great as driving to Miami. I am sitting on my couch listening to ‘From the Beginning’ Wilco. I have five extra days to complete my Chicago Public Radio application. I am reading uncontrollable amounts for class. And it’s rainy, which means lazy schneeging. Tonight my parentals and I are going to see Alice in Wonderland (more to come on that.) All is well here. Plus, how can we top last year’s spring break? I don’t know about ya’ll but I drove from Los Angeles to Vancouver and back last year. If you have the time (and money) go out and do something crazy! If not, enjoy whatever. I’m spending time writing, reading and music dorkin’…so the usual.