Have you been rickroll’d? Wikipedia describes it as:

A prank where a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand which actually takes the user to the video of the 1987 Rick Astley song Never Gonna Give You Up.

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Elvis’s birthday is coming up this weekend, which means it’s time for the annual Night of 101 Elvises this Saturday at Dr. Dremo’s in Arlington, VA. We went two years ago and thoroughly enjoyed the abundance of Elvis impersonators and their skills singing karaoke tunes of the King.

Every morning when I arrive at the office, I can always count on one email I look forward to: the funnies. I subscribed to uclick.com comics and for a menial fee I get all the comics I want (that they run) delivered to my inbox every day. Sadly, one of my favorite comics on my daily email has stopped arriving.

On December 30th, Foxtrot by Bill Amend went to Sunday-only publication. Sunday Foxtrot’s which are typically sans-words are very clever and well crafted, but it is the dailies that are sharp and on the pulse of what’s in that have been a reflection of the world, and a very funny one at that.

Foxtrot, you will be missed.

I’ve never understood the fascination Mid-Atlantic folks have with the Outer Banks. It must be for days like today.

“A cargo container that apparently fell from a ship washed up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Thursday and spilled thousands of bags of Doritos brand tortilla chips on the beach. People collected the chips, which were apparently still fresh due to their airtight packaging. It was unknown which ship had lost the cargo or to what port it was bound.”

Photo by Donna Barnett / special to The Virginian-Pilot