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William World News, in tumblr form. That seems to mean mobile-blogging, photos for food and drink and occasionally videos. Oversharing, not so much. Visit the mothership at yurasko.net.

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I’m still on this platform, mostly because I don’t want it be taking over by something bad. Anyway, here’s the seasonally appropriate song.

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This weekend, we crossed the longer day than night threshold.

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I wasn’t a sweaty nerd, more of an Ethlete

She found a dating app on her boyfriend’s phone. Then she bought a samurai sword. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/15/she-found-a-dating-app-on-her-boyfriends-phone-then-she-bought-a-samurai-sword/?utm_term=.d6631ee39b88

Victim blaming is bad and all, but I think if she can be disarmed and he loses his games, they deserve each other.

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Muresan! You da man Happy birthday Gheorghe!

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The real reason that the movie works—and it does work, for the most part, even when you rewatch it 40 years later—is Christopher Reeve, the then-unknown actor chosen to play Superman. I don’t know whether Reeve is an exact fit for the comic book version of Superman or whether my own personal image of Superman is just colored by this Reeve version being around for my entire life, but it’s hard to imagine any other actor embodying that strange mix of brawny handsomeness, charming sincerity, and physical comedy. As Clark Kent, Reeve is a gracefully screwball bumbler, and as Superman, he’s a warm and sheltering presence... ...the main problem that subsequent screen Supermans Brandon Routh and Henry Cavill have had is that they’re just not Christopher Reeve.

It’s a bird... It’s a plane... It’s Superman, the first big-budget superhero movie

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I don't think we've addressed how weird it is that Fred eats a cereal with the same name as his daughter.

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On this day in 1982, Air Florida 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge and Potomac River.

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Virginia used to have an official groundhog; it killed itself on Groundhog Day 1954

This story originally appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1954, with the headline “Groundhog Dies Before Making Annual Forecast.”

Why didn’t they teach us this in school instead of trying to rationalize the War of Southern Aggression?

There’s more:  From the Archives: The fascinating and bizarre stories of Groundhog Days in Virginia - Richmond Times-Dispatch

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - TIL that there is a Soviet Safeway on the other side of the Potomac.

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It’s pretty much a tradition now, not a “new” tradition.

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In short, be vigilant about yourself, no one else will be.

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When I was 9 years old, we visited our former neighbors in their new Michigan home for Thanksgiving. According to Bruce Campbell, we didn't celebrate the right way.

Later that weekend, we piled into the back of a Chevy station wagon (diesel even) and drove through Detroit to Windsor, Ont. just to say we went to Canada, I guess. We had McDonald’s and since it was warm, the back window was rolled down. J.J. shot spitballs onto the Canadian street. Then we got stuck in traffic crossing the Ambassador Bridge and I half-ate a Snickers.

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I think listening to this every Halloween is going to be a thing

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Capitals Rally pigeon from March 2006

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In a waiting from for screening and CNN is on - help me Ian McKay!

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The Most Important Question In Local Sports

We turn now to pizza.

I don’t eat Papa Johns pizza, but I’m going to follow @HalfPricePizza anyway (despite an anti-DC team appearing) because of these nuggets: “I kind of feel like the more gaudy and fancy the thing gets, the funnier it becomes,” Packard says. “Though of course I take my solemn responsibility to D.C.’s lovers of mediocre but affordable pizza extremely seriously...” (According to his site, that’s where the football promo comes from, too—the controversial name is conspicuously absent, a decision Packard attributes to “two parts liberal sanctimony and one part fear of a Snyder lawsuit.”) Well-played, expatriate Englishman, well-played. http://ispizzahalfprice.com/dc/

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Phil's last homestand: A Pirates usher since 1936, Phil Coyne has seen it all

How has Phil Coyne survived 80 years as an usher for the Pittsburgh Pirates? For the 98-year-old lifelong Bucs fan, it all comes down to luck -- and Oreo cookies.

Great story by a Penn State College of Communications faculty member on a Pittsburgh user who has been working Pirates games since 1936.