| On Movies: Austin fete braces for the Philadelphians
Yo, it's a Phillywood moment. In a couple of weeks, indie filmmakers from Philadelphia will be out in force - and out and about in Austin, Texas - at the 15th annual South by Southwest Film Festival. Running March 7 through 15 in front of the storied SXSW Music Festival, this year's screen program boasts hundreds of features and shorts, and more than a few prominent entries from the buzzing Philly scene. Anyone who has ambled around South Street, down the streets of Queen Village and the back alleys of Bella Vista, knows the work of Isaiah Zagar: His mosaics - mirror shards, broken china, clay figurines, wine bottles, tiles and bicycle wheels - adorn the exteriors of scores of houses and businesses, and his studio, on the 1000 block of South, has become a tourist destination. Jeremiah Zagar, Isaiah's son, has made a deeply personal documentary, In a Dream, about his father, his father's art, and his father's marriage to Julia Zagar.
Lack of action highlights local fishing spots
The Chetco is fishing slightly better though, with scores of two-to-four fish per boat made up of a mixture of fresh fish and spawners. He said both rivers could use some more water to move fish and increase flow, even though we just had a storm roll through. Harrison Ibach, of Mad River Outfitters (707-826-7201), reports that things have slowed way down on the Mad River. He says that January is the best month for fishing the Mad, with February a close second. But by this time of year, things can really start to tail off. Not to mention that the water clarity went way down after the last storm. Yet intrepid anglers using the long leader technique continue to pick up fish, just not as many as a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I'm sorry to report, the Smith and Chetco may be the best things we have going right now.
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Sure, sure, it's all been done before, but now I get to do it. Without further ado, here is my all-name team. 20 - Rod Smart - Who the Hell is Rod Smart you ask? Well he is none other than the fool who called himself "He Hate Me" and pretty much epitomized the debacle that was the XFL. 19. Elbert L. "Ickey" Woods - Running back his entire carreer for the Bengals. Hey, how many guys not named Humpty Hump have a dance named after them. The Ickey Shuffle remains high on the all time celebrations list. 18. "Chocolate Thunder" Darryl Dawkins - Perhaps more appropriate for wrestling or porn, but still has a nice ring to it. 17. "Pistol" Pete Maravich - LSU grad was a known practicioner of yoga, a part time ufologist, and could also play a little basketball. Died of a heart attack in 1988 at a young age.
Mickey Kaus
If the female vote in the two polls was similar, but the male vote for Hillary plummeted in the robo-poll, that would tend to support the "Don't Tell Mama" explanation. ... Backup DTM theory: Of course (if it turns out the gender gap in the two polls is roughly comparable) it could be that many men and many women don't like Hillary but are reluctant to say so in public. ... Bonus extra heavy duty nondisprovable gender-related DTM theory: Men and women don't like Hillary, and neither group wants to admit that to a human. The difference is that women, unlike men, don't dare admit it even to a robot. ... Backfill: See Chris Bowers' alternate explanation for Hillary's consistently weak Rasmussen showing. ... **Corrected. Originally said "Gallup Poll." CNN and Gallup are no longer an item.
Mother Earth Mother Board
Over the course of two months, photographer Alex Tehrani and I hit six countries and four continents trying to get a grip on this longest, fastest, mother of all wires. I took a GPS receiver with me so that I could have at least a general idea of where the hell we were. It gave me the above reading in front of a Chinese temple around the corner from the Shangri-La Hotel in Penang, Malaysia, which was only one of 100 peculiar spots around the globe where I suddenly pulled up short and asked myself, "What the hell am I doing here?" You might well ask yourself the same question before diving into an article as long as this one. The answer is that we all depend heavily on wires, but we hardly ever think about them. Before learning about FLAG, I knew that data packets could get from America to Asia or the Middle East, but I had no idea how.
Costa fleet in multi-million dollar make over
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This weekend's EDF Energy Cup games
Ben Daly starts at hooker, Andy Hall and Peter Sidoli come into the second row and the captain, Colin Charvis, moves to openside, with Michael Owen at No 8. Ospreys v London Irish Tomorrow, 4.10pm, Liberty Stadium All Blacks back-rower Marty Holah has been named on the Ospreys' bench. London Irish have an international front row, with the New Zealand prop Clarke Dermody making his debut alongside the former Springboks hooker Danie Coetzee and the Tongan prop Tonga Lea'aetoa. The Ireland flanker Aidan McCullen, centre Bryan Rennie and the locks James Hudson and Gary Johnson make their first starts of the season. Saracens v Bristol Tomorrow, 3pm, Vicarage Road Saracens welcome back three players from World Cup duty - Andy Farrell, who has shaken off his calf injury, and the Fiji captain Moses Rauluni and his compatriot Kameli Ratuvou.
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