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Obese Filmmaker [Kevin Smith] Booted From Flight | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

"What does it say about your directorial career that your tweets are far more compelling, suspenseful, and emotionally honest than your recent movies?"

yet another from the "crap you can't make up" department...

Caring for Pets Left Behind by the Rapture - BusinessWeek:

Many people in the U.S.—perhaps 20 million to 40 million—believe there will be a Second Coming in their lifetimes, followed by the Rapture . In this event, they say, the righteous will be spirited away to a better place while the godless remain on Earth. But what will become of all the pets?

Bart Centre, 61, a retired retail executive in New Hampshire, says many people are troubled by this question, and he wants to help. He started a service called Eternal Earth-Bound Pets that promises to rescue and care for animals left behind by the saved.

Promoted on the Web as "the next best thing to pet salvation in a Post Rapture World," the service has attracted more than 100 clients, who pay $110 for a 10-year contract ($15 for each additional pet.) If the Rapture happens in that time, the pets left behind will have homes—with atheists. Centre has set up a national network of godless humans to carry out the mission. "If you love your pets, I can't understand how you could not consider this," he says.

nothing like dividing the audience...

I know it is St. Patty's and all, but they could time things better.

Monday, March 15 has *two* separate Irish concerts.  In VA at The Barns at Wolf Trap will be Altan.  In MD will be Kevin Burke and Patrick Street at the Kreeger Auditorium (an IMT concert).

sigh...yeah, it caters to those who love Irish music but hate to cross the river on a school night, but still...

also in town that week:

• Eileen Ivers @ GMU on March 14
• Battlefield Band at Wolf Trap March 17
• Celtic Woman at the Patriot Center March 17
  
• Solas in Germantown on March 18

earlier, Gaelic Storm at the Birchmere March 3, Celtic Crossroads at wolftrap march 6 & 7,

and later, Moya Brennan (Clannad) at Wolf Trap April 8,  Lunasa in Reston April 11 and at the Birchmere on April 16, Great Big Sea in Easton (across the bay bridge) April 27, Bonnie Rideout at Wolf Trap April 30, and Karen Casey (former Solas singer) May 17 for IMT

Update: Seven Nations is also coming to the area.  On the 14th they'll be at the Shamrock Fest in RFK (along with Black47, Scithian, Enter the Haggis, and some mash-up club djs), and for a somewhat quieter night they'll be down in Fredricksburg on the 17th

more updates - cape breton style
Natalie MacMaster with Donnell Leahy is coming to Fairfax Feb 27th (but I'm busy, pooh)