Dept. of Things

OK. You can go to The Cheese Shop (or is it Shoppe? whatever, stupid revivalist entrepreneurs) and buy a decent beer--I will use Anchor Liberty Ale (because it's delicious) as an example--for about $1.80 and go and drink it outside at a table and watch people do things in Merchant's Square. FOR LESS THAN $2!

89.5 fm says that New Orleans is more than 80% underwater. Rescue workers spent much of the day take hundreds of people off of roofs. I haven't been able to find out what Pat Robertson has to say about that (but you can check out the CBN anyway, while you're there you might as well sign up for Operation Supreme Court Freedom, and don't forget about Pat's Age-Defying Protein Pancakes - "America loves pancakes!") yet.

Tomorrow the temperature in Williamsburg will be 94 degrees, and, as a result, Jesse will be moving up North when he gets older: "I wish Virginia the best, but this heat and I just don't get along, it's not a match, we don't match well." He also says that ladybugs, in England, are called "ladybirds". (that period there, the one outside the quotes, they do that in England too).

Also, Rex Goliath 47 Pound Rooster, despite its silly name, makes a very un-silly Pinot Noir.

How about some french, yeah?...

débardeur - workman who unlades, etc. ; stevedore, wharf-porter
haridelle - jade, hack, sorry horse ; (fig.) gawky woman

and now some conversational skills:
je ne vaux pas chipette (i feel absolutely fit for nothing)
-vous ne lui allez pas à la cheville (you are a pigmy compared with him, you are unfit to tie his shoe-strings)
je gémis de votre erreur (i bewail your error)
-adressez vous à d'autres (tell that to the marines!)
je profiterai de l'avis que vous me donnez (i shall avail myself of the caution you have given me)
-voici bien du haut style! *in disgust (this is lofty style with a vengeance)