Results tagged “postoffice”

It's such a beautiful word, isn't it? Say it with us: F r i d a y.

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I hate the Post Office. Not the actual organization. I should be more specific. I hate going to the Post Office. It's not that the clerks are often unnecessarily unfriendly. It's not that I wish I could just email the contents of the heavy box I'm holding and save the paper. It's that the people who visit the post office often... suck.

Dear Satan:

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness – we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week.

It's Memorial Day. Banks are closed. The post office is closed. We can officially wear white. We're barbecuing. We're honoring our wounded and fallen soldiers.

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend...

Dan Rubin at Blinq tells us that yesterday was the most depressing day of the year - which we suppose means the rest of the year will be full of sunshine and lollipops, scientifically speaking. Here's what the rest of the blogosphere was talking about while the winter blues were still on (now that they're over we assume everyone's left their computer for celebratory dancing in the street):