Archive for January, 2009

week in review: january 19-23

this week we got a new president oh and there was some other stuff that went on here at sacred bird.

many are phoning home with this.
they made oprah look fat (not phat) in this toy capital.
obama wasn’t the week’s only top dog.
it ain’t the lincoln bedroom but it’ll do.
last but not least, we said ‘buh-bye’ [...]


does soledad o’brien watch fox news?

my guess is no so we’re posting the video from yesterday morning’s fox & friends for her where neighbors of her co-op building talked to steve doocy about the ugly legal battle going on with their dog, ugo (a mastiff, which by the way is not on the american kennel club’s top 10 purebred dog [...]


this one won’t land in the hudson

next time you’re in sweden, stop by the arlanda airport and spend a night at the newest hotel concept – the jumbo jet hostel. jumbo hostel is not just in a building shaped liked an airplane, hostel owner oscar dios actually converted a previously flying 747 to 25 guest rooms. most rooms have three beds [...]


top dog

the american kennel club id’d the top 10 purebred dogs in the u.s.a.  the labraor retriever continues to hold the top spot (18 years running) but the oh-so-cute bulldog is gaining ground — last year it made the top 10 for the first time in 70 years, this year the bull dog has moved up [...]


he must have had his money with madoff…

neil young has penned a little ditty about the financial bailout.  his anger with the mess (and the people on wall street) has been boiling for a while–recent concert gigs have included shout-ats (not outs) about the implosion.  the song called “fork in the road” starts out slow but it picks up when the chorus [...]


parting is such sweet sorrow…

sort of. we can now officially put to bed our election ‘08 coverage.  it’s been a very very very long road for us here at sacred bird, since it was only in march ‘08 when we began this blog.  we’ve tried to cover the uncovered as it related to the political news.  for example, we covered  [...]


is this set available at toys “r” us?

if you didn’t make it down to dc to catch obama’s inauguration, you still have time to head out to california to get a feel for what it would’ve been like to stand in the crowd and witness history first hand.  the folks at legoland* park in california have put their creativity to work and have spent [...]