It was a live report on a BROKEN ESCALATOR. People had to walk up 26 steps to get to the ferry!

Humph. The Davis Sq. escalator has been downf or service for 2 weeks, and will be another 2 weeks. (Right up till today they had a big pile of escalator steps labeled "good steps" and a different pile not labeled, but so covered with gunk and elderly dust bunnies that they were clearly the Bad Steps.) And I have not had a single news van to describe my sorrow!!

When I lived in the DC area, I am not even sure they covered every instance of someone being mangled in an escalator -- it seemed to happen all the time. (Although they did cover that one time a guy's hoodie strings caught in the mechanism and strangled him.)

If we have to use stairs, then the terrorists have already won.

They hate us for our escalators.

You mean TERROR STEPS, right?

SO CLOSE to being an x-post. Damn my slow fingers!

SO CLOSE to being an x-post. Damn my slow fingers!

Hee.

This is why I don't watch local tv news anymore. They led with Obama's Hollywood fundraiser the one time I did try and watch in the past week, and all the breathless reporting over who was there disgusted me in all its starfuckingmania, so I turned the tv off.

I remember the escalators going out at one London station and it being entirely newsworthy. The Hampstead escalators run almost 200 feet up, so when they're out, it's best you don't get off at that station.

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From Wonkette:

After a long successful run of endorsing winners like George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Al Gore and John Kerry, the magazine Rolling Stone implied back in November that Tom Vilsack might survive with a little buzz help from Wonkette.

As an experiment, we gave Vilsack an absurd amount of coverage, including endless critiques of his impressive neo-totalitarian campaign style and disturbing “furry” costumes. Well, actually, that was all we covered — the 1984/V For Vendetta/ crap and the adult Winnie the Pooh costume. And now he’s the first candidate to drop out, nearly two years before the election. There’s a lesson here, possibly involving Piglet or Owl or Bill Richardson.

Do they still have the ancient wooden escalators in Boston--on the Red Line, I think? Those were very cool. They made a great clanka-clanka noise.

I occasionally will deliberately catch the late local news. Mainly for the weather, but sometimes they answer my questions about things like What were all those helicopters doing? Often they have some insipid story that somehow ties in to whatever hit tv show was on that night. Which can result in unintended hilarity.

I just have to be careful to avoid them when we are being terrorized by the killer snakeheads or whatever.

Someone's probably already posted this, but just in case:

Giant Squid Photos.