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Pennsylvania’s dialects are as varied as its downtowns — and dahntahns – Patriot-News
The bottom line is few kitchen tables can be as linguistically cluttered as a Pennsylvania table when the family comes to town.
Based solely upon pronunciation and grammar, researchers generally split the United States into a number of linguistic regions. Those regions come together [...]

BOSTON — I was not that familiar with Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey, but I was informed by the Ombudman’s attorney that it “the” Boston children’s book. Since I have a son, I decided to get it, though I wound up buying it outside of Boston in the Curious George bookstore which is [...]

The Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery (hosted by Anglefire, wow that still exists!) is just the thing needed for a day like today.
Hopefully, people are going to use this as an inspiration after all of this snow.
H/T Eric McErlain on Facebook
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Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger – The Onion
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Up until yesterday’s Q&A with We Love DC, I was unaware of 1,001 Rules for My Unborn Son. Written by D.C. resident Walker Lamond, the blog presents rules for a male to grow up and live by with a late 1950s/early 1960s white collar urban sensibility of masculinity and style. There is a lot to [...]

COMM Blog, the official blog of the College of Communications at Penn State (my alma mater), informed me that my former ethics professor Russell Frank will a panelist at Baseball Americana on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. at teh Library of Congress
Panel One: At HomeEven those of us who love a day out at the [...]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — I was not happy that “The Awakening” was moved from Hains Point, Washington D.C. to this new resort in Prince George’s County. I don’t blame the developer for buying of course, it was a shrewd move to catch the Park Service napping. I do fault the developer for the new placement [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – I always though that statues of D.C. baseball legends was a must-have for the Nationals permanent home and I am pleased that they are now installed at the Centerfield entrance area. I was kind of skeptical of how they were going to turn out after I read Nats320’s interviews with the sculptor. [...]

Olsson’s bookstores officially closed for good today. I bought quite a few books at Olsson’s over the years and enjoyed several booksignings there too. They will be missed. I really need to see if I have the Olsson’s Kermit the Frog “Read” shirt.
Overridden With Debt, Olsson’s Ends Long Run – The PostOlsson’s Books And the [...]

Carrie Fisher has a one woman show coming up at Arena Stage (which is temporarily in Crystal City) at the end of the month. Called “Wishful Drinking”, the show comes off as her sitting in a room with a drink in one hand and cigarette in the other telling her Hollywood war stories. So, it [...]