Wonkette
Look, these pretty things are a-bloomin’ all over the Tidal Basin shores and whatnot. This was obviously taken yesterday, when the foul rain wasn’t pissing down upon the Nation’s Capital. But it should be kind of sunny tomorrow, so make sure you take a long three-hour lunch, enjoy the famous cherry blossoms given to us by Japan on December 7, 1941, and then come back to the office only to find you’ve been picked for the new round of layoffs because what the fuck, a three-hour lunch, in this economy? Photo by Wonkette’s Elizabeth Askew.
Ho ho, Cyclone Dairy was a Ben & Jerry’s April Fool’s trick. I haz a sad now. I was looking forward to that cloned beef.
It’s ugly and cold and grey and snowy with horrible arctic winds where I am, so thanks for the reminder that other people have better lives than me.
Taking a picture of somebody else taking a picture, how japanese.
…WAAAAaaaaay off topic, but someone blew the ass off of LENIN!!!
Cherry blossom Spring
A Shimmering, tranquil pond
We need more buttsex
When we used to go, my Dad used to tell us, (we were brats), that if we ate a cherry blossom we could walk on water, which basically meant, “Go jump in the Basin, ya little shit”.
Don’t worry, if you get sacked for looking at the cherry blossoms, you can always go look for work in Japan. As the Japanese complain about their worst unemployment rate in three years, it is 4.4%, THE HORROR.
AngryBlakGuy: April Fools! HAHAHAHAHahahahaaaaaaaaaahmmmmmmm.
AngryBlakGuy: What would Edmund Wilson say?
AngryBlakGuy: Holy shit, the terrorists will go after Abe next.
It’s snowing in Seattle. Dunno if the local cherry blossoms are out yet.
qaf: Snowing here in MN, too. Recount is just slightly short of the 25% mark done. Think I will find a buddy and throw him in th’ chipper.
Ken, surely you meant that “former” Wonkette Elizabeth Askew? I mean…after that 3 hours it took her to take that photo yesterday.
We could have solved this whole fiscal crisis had we planted poppy flowers instead of cherry blossoms.
AngryBlakGuy: Let the fart jokes begin.
That photograph looks like a screenshot from “Second Life,” doesn’t it?
They’re very nice, but they got nothin’ on our Tennessee redbuds.
Serolf Divad:
To raise our spirits
Mention the cherry blossoms
But nix the layoffs
TGY:
Blossoms fluttering
On winds of goodwill — still no
Birth certificate.
SayItWithWookies:
Muslin overlord
Journeys across the waters
What, NO DVDS???
WadISay: I thought Fargo was in North Dakota.
I am now officially homesick. Thank you.
AngryBlakGuy: Vy bleauw chole in stetchue, ven Lenin’s body ees lyink clewse by, vaiting to chave chole bleauwn een real ess?
Min: wait, Tennessee claims redbuds? They are native all over East coast and South.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Redbud
Drive anywhere in VA, outside the city where they have ripped out the natives and replaced them with alien species like fish-stinking Bradford pears, and the roads are lined with them. I love those trees.
Blooming pink cherries
dildo stuffed in double layer
of neoprene love
Drifting cherry blossoms
Far prettier than the
Drifting fat tourists
SayItWithWookies:
Oooh, enjambement… nice touch.
Serolf Divad: You should see my synecdoche.
SayItWithWookies: well, I have a palimpsest that will put anyone’s shame.
Doglessliberal:
I can make my synesthesia wiggle inside you.
Serolf Divad: speaking of which, I heard a cool show on NPR about that the other day where one of the people who had it was an artist who could not paint without a record playing. And she would go to record shops and buy random ones and see what she got out of them. If she wanted to stop the painting and pick up again later, she had to stop the music and start it again in the place where she stopped it. Another woman had the words/letters have colors version, (and, for example, the word brown was not). I knew what it was and had read about it, but to hear these examples from the people’s mouths really was incredible.
Dear National Park Service: I love the cherry trees and would like to stroll among them, but could we please have a DC/VA/MD resident only day at the Tidal Basin, just one little day, maybe even half a day, pretty please, with sugar on top?
McDuff: amen, and no tourists on the Metro that day, please and thank you?