Balimore Hills

I don't understand why so many neighborhoods in Baltimore City are either a hill or a mount.  It's stupid.

Bolton Hill

Brwers Hill

Butchers Hill

Druid Hill

Federal Hill

Mt. Vernon

Mt. Washington

Reservoir Hill

Seton Hill

TV Hill

Washington Hill

Palindromes

Keeping with the Jennifer Jason Leigh post, here's the trailer for Palindromes.

Jennifer Jason Leigh is underrated

Top 10 of Jennifer Jason Leigh, I could have put a lot more on this list.  So honorable mentions are eXistenz, Miami Blues, The Big Picture, Rush, Kansas City and Delores Claiborne.

1.  Mrs. Parker and The Vicious Circle (1995) by Alan Rudolph

2.  Georgia (1995) by Ulu Grosbard

3.  Margot at the Wedding (2007) by Noah Baumbach

4.  Bastard out of Carolina (1996) by Angelica Huston

5.  The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) by the Coen Brothers

6.  Short Cuts (1993) by Robert Altman

7.  Washington Square (1997) by Agneiszka Holland

8.  Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) by Uli Edel

9.  Single White Female (1992) by Barbet Schroeder

10.  Palindromes (2004) by Todd Solandz

Advice

These are terrifying

I hate planes, however I seem to always read about plane crashes.  These are the 10 worst crashes in history.  I found this online, but I forgot where.


1. March 27, 1977. Two Boeing 747s, operated by KLM and Pan Am, collide on a foggy runway at Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands killing 583 people. The KLM jet departed without permission and struck the Pan Am jet as it taxied along the same runway. Confusion over instructions and a blockage of radio transmissions contributed to the crash.






2. August 12, 1985. A Japan Air Lines 747 crashes near Mt. Fuji after takeoff from Tokyo on a domestic flight killing 520. The rupture of an aft bulkhead, which had undergone faulty repairs following a mishap seven years earlier, caused destruction of part of the airplane’s tail and rendered the jet uncontrollable. A JAL maintenance supervisor later committed suicide, while the president of the airline resigned, accepting full, formal responsibility for the crash and visiting victims’ families to offer a personal apology.




3. November 12, 1996. An Ilyushin IL-76 cargo plane from Kazakhstan collides in midair with a Saudia 747 near Delhi; all 349 aboard both planes are killed. The Kazakh crew had disobeyed instructions, and neither airplane was equipped with collision-avoidance technology.




4. March 3, 1974. In one of the most notorious and gruesome crashes ever, a THY (Turkish Airlines) DC-10 crashes near Orly airport killing all 346 passengers and crew. A poorly designed cargo door had burst from its latches, and the subsequent depressurization caused failure of the cabin floor and impairment of cables to the rudders and elevators. Out of control, the plane slammed into the woods northeast of Paris. McDonnell Douglas, maker of the DC-10, which would see even more controversy later, was forced to redesign its cargo door system.




5. June 23, 1985. A bomb planted by a Sikh extremist blows up an Air India 747 enroute between Toronto and Bombay (with stops in Montreal and London). The airplane fell into the sea east of Ireland killing 329. Investigators in Canada cited shortcomings in baggage screening procedures, screening equipment, and employee training. A second bomb, intended to blow up another Air India 747 on the same day, detonated prematurely in a luggage facility in Tokyo before being loaded aboard.




6. August 19, 1980. A Saudia L-1011 bound for Karachi returns to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following an in-flight fire that broke out just after departure. For reasons never understood, the crew takes its time after a safe touchdown and rolls to the far end of the runway before finally stopping. No evacuation is commenced, and the airplane then sits with its engines running for more than three minutes. Before any doors can be opened by the inadequately-equipped rescue workers at Riyadh, all 301 people on the widebody die as the passenger cabin is consumed by a flash-fire.


7. July 3, 1988. An Airbus A300 operated by Iran Air is shot down over the Straits of Hormuz by the US Navy destroyer Vincennes. The crew of the Vincennes, distracted by an ongoing gunbattle, mistakes the A300 for a hostile military aircraft and destroys it with two surface-to-air missiles. None of the 290 occupants survived.


8. May 25, 1979. As an American Airlines DC-10 lifts from the runway at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, an engine detaches and seriously damages a wing. Before its crew can make sense of the situation, the airplane rolls 90 degrees and disintegrates in a huge fireball about a mile beyond the runway. With 273 fatalities, this remains the worst-ever crash on US soil. Both the engine pylon design and airline maintenance procedures were faulted by NTSB investigators, and all DC-10s were temporarily grounded.


9. December 21, 1988. Two Libyan agents are later held responsible (one is convicted) for planting a bomb aboard Pan American flight 103, which blows up in the night sky over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270 people, including 11 on the ground.


10. September 1, 1983. Korean Air Lines flight KL007, a 747 carrying 269 passengers and crew from New York to Seoul (with a technical stop in Anchorage) is shot down by a Soviet fighter after drifting off course — and into Soviet airspace — near Sakhalin Island in the North Pacific. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) later attributes the mysterious deviation to “A considerable degree of lack of alertness and attentiveness on the part of the flight crew.”

My Favorite Twin Peaks Characters

15.  The Giant and the Arm

14.  Big Ed Hurley

13.  Pete Martell

12.  BOB

11.  Shelly Johnson

10.  Blackie

9.  Catherine Martell

8.  Nadine Hurley

7.  The Horne Brothers, Ben and Jerry

6.  Leland Palmer

5.  Laura Palmer

4.  Gordon Cole

3.  Sarah Palmer

2.  Audrey Horne

1.  Special Agent Dale Cooper

The Mystery at Thunderbolt House

This book is amazing!  I almost called out sick today so I could finish reading it.  It's made for teens and was written in the '40's.  So darn good!

American Paddlefish

I was almost eaten by one of these when I was younger visitng my grandparents at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.  They don't eat meat, but this thing tried to swallow me whole. 

The American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) is currently known from the Mississippi River watershed in the United States, including slow-flowing waters of the Mississippi River itself, as well as various tributaries including the Missouri River, Ohio River, Yellowstone River, Wisconsin River, Des Moines River, and Arkansas River systems. These fish were also found historically in Lake Erie, in the Great Lakes, but in May 2000, the Canadian Species at Risk Act listed the paddlefish as being extirpated in Canada.


The American paddlefish is one of the largest freshwater fish in North America. They commonly reach 5 feet (1.5 m) or more in length and can weigh more than 60 pounds (27 kg). The largest American paddlefish on record, weighing 144 pounds (65 kg), was caught by Clinton Boldridge in the Atchison Watershed in Kansas. The largest unofficial record was 206 pounds from Lake Cumberland in Kentucky;[citation needed] postcards from the 1960s[which?] show a photo of this huge fish.

Fossils of other kinds of paddlefish have been found. One such species is Crossopholis magnicaudatus, from the Eocene-age Green River Shale deposit in Wyoming.

Sissy Spacek is tops

Top 10 Sissy Spacek

10.  JFK (1991) by Oliver Stone

9.  Missing (1982) by Costa Gravas

8.  Coal Miners Daughter (1980) by Michael Apted

7.  Nine Lives (2005) by Rodrigo Garcia

6.  Affliction (1997) by Paul Schrader

5.  The Straight Story (1999) by David Lynch

4.  Badland (1973) by Terrence Malick

3.  In the Bedroom (2001) by Todd Field

2.  Carrie (1976) by Brian DePalma

1.  3 Women (1977) by Robert Altman