Here We Go Magic, whose new album, A Different Ship, streamed on The A.V. Club last week, managed to stumble across cult director John Waters hitchhiking today. They picked him up, of course, because who wouldn’t want to hear all that dirty Divine gossip?
The band was on a drive from a tour stop in Pittsburgh to tonight’s show in Bloomington, Indiana when they came across Waters thumbing it somewhere off I-70 in the eastern half of Ohio. According to an interview the band gave to DCist:
There’s a hydro-fracking boom in western Pennsylvania. You can’t get a motel room. We had to drive til 4AM, and finally found a Days Inn in eastern Ohio. Getting back on the highway this morning, there was a man at the side of the on-ramp with a sign that read ‘to the end of Rte 70.’ Jen wanted to pick him up, but we drove past him. As we passed by, our sound guy said ‘John Waters.’ Luke said, ‘Yep, definitely John Waters.’ We got off at the next exit and circled back. He was still there. We pulled up, opened the door and asked where he was coming from. ‘Baltimore,’ he said. And we said ‘Get in, sir.’”
For those who remain skeptical after that sensible explanation, Waters is a noted hitchhiking aficionado who told an Australian newspaper in 2011 that it’s a “great way to have sex.” Fair enough.
planArguing against President Obama’s economic policies, Mitt Romney gave a speech today in a shuttered Ohio drywall plant forced to close during the economic downturn.
backfireThe plant in question actually closed its doors during the Bush administration. Meanwhile, unemployment in Ohio has fallen since Obama took office. source
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After I lost, my friends, I slept like a baby — sleep two hours, wake up and cry.
Senator John McCain • Drawing laughter during a speech in Ohio, where he offered his endorsement of Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel. Mandel, currently state treasurer of Ohio, faces incumbent Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in a race that has drawn national attention due to the amount of outside money pouring into the Republican’s campaign. Many conservatives hope to take back what they currently see as winnable-seat, because progressive and labor groups that have traditionally supported Brown in the past have yet to contribute any meaningful support to the campaign. source(via • follow)
JOSH MANDEL IS A PERSON-SHAPED WALKING FOUNTAIN OF BIGOTRY, MISOGYNY, AND CLASSISM WHO IS OF THE SAME GOVERNMENT- AND LABOR-BUSTING ILK AS OUR CURRENT GOVERNOR, LIARFACE MCGREED. IF YOU LIVE IN OHIO AND YOU VOTE FOR JOSH MANDEL OVER SHERROD BROWN, PLEASE SEE A DOCTOR BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG WITH YOU.
“I like teams with good point guards because I think the ability to control the game and limit turnovers, I think that’s a big difference,” he told ESPN. “Being able to make free throws, that ends up counting a little bit. Other than that, it’s all throwing darts.”
Obama also gave British Prime Minister David Cameron a front-row seat to March Madness on Tuesday, taking his European partner to an election swing state for an NCAA tournament basketball game.
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Sometimes when we have foreign visitors they’re only visiting the coasts. They go to New York, they go to Washington, they go to Los Angeles,” Obama told Kellogg. “But the heartland is what it’s all about.
This photo appeared on September 18, 1968, in the Marshall Star, the internal newspaper published by the Marshall Space Flight Center. The caption read, “Dr. Wernher von Braun gets the feel of being weightless in a recent airplane flight. He experienced the ‘no-gravity’ condition aboard an Air Force KC-135 over Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The aircraft achieves about 30 seconds of weightlessness by flying a special arc-like path.” (via Experiencing Weightlessness (1968))
