David Beckham is retiring: The end of an era
The 38-year-old Beckham, who recently won a league title in a fourth country with Paris Saint-Germain, has become a global superstar since starting his career at Manchester United.
“I’m thankful to PSG for giving me the opportunity to continue but I feel now is the right time to finish my career, playing at the highest level,” Beckham said in a statement Thursday. (Photo: Getty Images/AFP/Files)
Advantage: UK. The US got the older and less aggressive Becks. But all bets are off for his future movie/underwear modeling career.
And L.A. got a MLS Cup out of the deal! For those looking for a new Tumblr to follow, English2English is pretty great.
Some love for our Tumblr from the LA Times. :)
I’m not sure why I thought about it today
But this 2008 list of things Whitney Matheson would miss most about DC has stuck with me since before I ever had any inkling that I’d move to the East Coast. I read this list when I was living in Indiana after college, reporting in my hometown. I’d never been further east than Ohio at that point and I remember thinking that Washington was a really magical place. By some insane stroke of luck, I got to move there and I got to live there, so I found out that, in many ways, it was.
I miss DC today. Or, I miss what DC felt like when I was 24, broke and happy and more of a country bumpkin than I ever realized. Everything felt new, like a gift.
Anyway, I love New York and think it’s where I belong (I’m a nomad, so take that with a grain of salt), but I’ve always thought this list really brings out the loveliness of DC. Most of all, though, it reminds me how quickly things can change.
51 things I miss about D.C.
Advantage: No one
I am not retiring. Relax, everyone.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan)
Welcome to English to English
Right, then. Prince Harry’s visit to the USA is as good a time as any to point out that the mutual curiosity shared between British and American cultures is as intense as ever. It’s also a good time to launch this Tumblr.
When Winston Churchill coined the phrase “special relationship” to describe the connection between the two nations in 1946, he was describing two countries whose commitments to similar ideals – for better or worse – have historically meant a keen interest in each other. “Special”, sometimes, doesn’t even begin to cover it.
It’s about time I followed this Tumblr!
A handshake with Brother Nature @gabrieldance
Bay Ridge amenities
Bride and her bridesmaid army in Central Park
Three Ohio Bucks Found Drowned with Antlers Locked.
Click through to Field & Stream for the full story and lots more pictures, but be warned, some of them are grisly:
The best way to untangle the pileup, Burke and Shields decided, was to sever the heads of two of the deer and remove their bodies; then the third deer would be removed intact, with the racks of the first two bucks still locked in its antlers.
So, yeah.
(Hat tip to Radiolab listener Mercedes!)
Haunts me.
The punctuation is really what makes it. #nyc
It’s a rare moment when Broadway shuts down. #soho #nyc
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