The Simpsons on Postage Stamps
The United States Postal Service is promoting new stamps featuring The Simpsons.They want to know which is your favorite Simpson stamp.You can win a poster of Matt Groening.
Biographies
Michael Jordan’s Year in Baseball
SI has photos.The basketball star batted .202 and hit three home runs in 127 games with the AA Birmingham Barons in 1994. But he also stole 30 bases. And got called screwball into the bargain.
Tom Lehrer is 81!
And last year he was 80.
Kirk is Back
Four decades after NBC axed the original series, the unstoppable Star Trek franchise was back again last night — with a feature premiere in Australia and a surprise preview in Austin.
Peary at the North Pole, 100 Years Ago
Here’s a photo from the U.S. National Archives of the expedition party led by Robert E. Peary at the North Pole. The photo was taken 7 April 1909, one hundred years ago today.Peary and his party, including Matthew Henson, reached the pole the day before, on the 6th of April.
Bird and Magic, 30 Years Later
They said it:Bird played in the game but admitted, three decades later, he has still never watched a replay of it.”Why?” Bird said at a Ford Field news conference before the national title game between North Carolina and Michigan State. “I don’t like the memories of it.”Johnson leaned over to console Bird.”I watch it enough for him and I,” Johnson said with his trademark laugh.
Bob Dylan Analyzes the Presidents
BF: Do you remember any particular battle that [Ulysses] Grant fought?
The Beatles Reunite, Kinda, Sorta
Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney played together over the weekend, and Rolling Stone thought enough of it to give it several column inches. So did many others.
Farrah Fawcett Hospitalized in LA
Farrah Fawcett is in an LA hospital, reportedly unconscious, and has been there for a few days… Farrah has been battling cancer for three years and recently returned from Germany, where she had experimental stem-cell treatment.So says the LA Times, quoting Radar Online.
Sarah Palin’s Sister-in-Law Caught Burgling
While her four-year-old waited in the car.Todd Palin’s half-sister was arrested Thursday after police say she broke into a Wasilla home to steal money for the second time this week but ended up getting caught by the armed homeowner… Todd Palin is Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband. He referred questions to a spokeswoman for the governor, who said the family would have no comment.