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She Was the One

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgGQAr5hmRI] The most perplexing thing that I've never been able to get my head around with regards to 9/11 is the randomness of life that selected based on some mysterious rationale the nearly 3,000 people who would die that day and who would survive. It just seems so...fucking asshole-y. Inexplicable violence in general is difficult to understand, but the scale of what happened that day and its legacy which has resulted in even more deaths just magnified this question for me.

Karen Juday who worked as an assistant at Cantor Fitzgerald and was killed in the North Tower is memorialized in this eye watering video narrated by her fiance as part of StoryCorps's mission to document and "to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives." The last line in the story is so full of hope, but also just incredibly heartbreaking.

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Record Setting Dog

Harbor, a coonhound from Colorado, was certified recently by the by the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest ears on a living dog with his 13.5-inch right ear and a 12.25-inch left ear.

Sigh. Anytime I see a cute dog like this I always think of my dog Rudy. RIP old pal.

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Drunk Moose

This moose in Sweden enjoyed one too many fermented apples and got stuck between in the apple tree. Don't judge. We've all made dumb moose-takes. Amirite or amirite?

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Scene from Space

NASA astronaut Ron Garan snapped the above photo from the window of the International Space Station of a meteor in the Perseid shower. Pictures like this always reminds me of this great quote by Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman:

When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people.

The rest of his quote ended with "And the thing that should unite all of humankind is the deliciousness of Choco Pie." Okay, that was a lie. He didn't say that. I bought a box of Choco pies earlier tonight and promptly inhaled a few of them.

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Scene in LA

From the Los Angeles Times archives is this crazy photograph published on Dec. 18, 1985.

While traveling to an assignment, Times photographer Dave Gatley found that he was following a car in which it appeared that a man was being kidnapped at gunpoint, top. Gatley used his mobile phone to relay a call to Chula Vista police, keeping them informed of the car’s progress for three miles. When the car stopped at Argus Drive-Thru Dairy, 701 Broadway in Chula Vista, police made their move, bottom, only to find that the men, in their 20s, were just fooling around – with a plastic gun. No charges were filed.

The arrest photo is wild as well.

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After the Hurricane

Winslow Homer, After the Hurricane, 1899

I love the way he captures the slowly settling sea. I will probably be passed out like the subject in this painting this weekend as well when Hurricane Irene hits New York City, but the cause will most likely be my consumption of my alcohol stashed away for emergencies.

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