Couldn’t have asked for a better Superbowl/Superbowl Party. (image via life)
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After one short year, Obama’s “hope” motto seems to have slowly morphed into “please go fuck yourself I hate this job you are all assholes.” Not nearly as catchy.
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I’ll end this post by encouraging you to not get caught up with up and to right with everything and with each moment in your life. Because it’s rarely if ever a smooth up and to the right. Enjoy the ride. And take time to figure it out.
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INDIANAPOLIS—Clapping randomly as he struggled to follow the action on the field, a confused Eli Manning attempted to cheer for his older brother Peyton in the AFC Championship Sunday, barely comprehending the most basic elements of the game. “Which one is Peyton? Is he the one kicking the ball?” said Manning, the Giants quarterback and Super Bowl XLII MVP. “Are the numbers on the shirts always the same? Wait, is that Peyton’s team? He stopped running by that side area, but there’s nobody there and now he’s sitting down. Come on! Throw it to the guy in the striped shirt, Peyton.” Eyewitnesses reported that Manning became very excited and shouted, “Go, go, go, touchdown!” while the grounds crew worked on the field during halftime.
— Brilliant— The Onion
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I took this picture at the beach in SB during Christmas. It’s a balmy 23 degrees in NYC right now. Makes me wonder…
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Bodie, California (via flickr)
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills, east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California in the United States. As Bodie Historic District, the U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes it as a National Historic Landmark. The ghost town has been administered by California State Parks since becoming a state historic park in 1962, and receives about 200,000 visitors yearly.
Bodie originally started as a mining camp with the discovery of gold in 1859 by a group of prospectors. In 1876, a profitable deposit of gold-bearing ore was discovered, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp to a Wild West boomtown. Over the years, Bodie’s mines produced gold valued at nearly $34 million. By 1879, Bodie had a population of approximately 7000 people and around 2000 buildings.
Bodie had the amenities of larger towns, including two banks, four volunteer fire companies, a brass band, a railroad, miners’ and mechanics’ unions, several daily newspapers, and a jail. At its peak, 65 saloons lined Main Street, which was a mile long. Murders, shootouts, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Bodie also had a Chinatown with several hundred of Chinese residents at one point. A cemetery and mortuary were also located in Bodie.
The first signs of decline appeared in 1880. Promising mining booms in nearby villages lured miners away from Bodie, which eventually turned Bodie into a family-oriented community. In 1910, the population was recorded at only 698 people.
In 1912 The Bodie Miner, the last Bodie newspaper, stopped publishing. In 1917, the Bodie Railway was abandoned and its iron tracks were scrapped. The last mine closed in 1942, due to War Production Board order L-208, shutting down all nonessential gold mines in the United States. Mining never resumed. The post office closed in the same year.
The first label of Bodie as a “ghost town” was in 1915. By 1920, only about 120 people were living in the town. A fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932 and in the 1940s, the threat of vandalism faced the ghost town. The Cain family, who owned much of the land the town is situated upon, hired caretakers to protect and to maintain the town’s structures.
The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 it became Bodie State Historic Park. A total of 170 buildings remained.
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once was a bustling area of activity. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. In 2009, Bodie was scheduled to be closed, but the California state legislature was able to work out a budget compromise that enabled the state’s Parks Closure Commission to allow it to remain open, at least during the 2009-2010 fiscal year. The park is still operating as of late 2009.
I’ve been there with my family, so cool.
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