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.

The annoying Google images javascript seems to have disappeared!

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.

I'm surprised by how many matches results from googling escalator death.

Often they have some insipid story that somehow ties in to whatever hit tv show was on that night

Especially those "Ripped from the headlines!" stories. I have more respect from my local news when they aren't taking cues from the PR department at NBC etc.

I don't watch Fox News. It's moral thing.

Do they still have the ancient wooden escalators in Boston?

Alas, no. I remember the one that was right near Filene's and Jordan Marsh. It had to have been one of the first escalators in the country -- probably it originally ran on steampower.