June 17, 2011

On this date in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor. And boy were her legs tired.

She has been resting her weary muscles for years, stretching in order to relieve the cramp in her arm. But one day and one day soon she will put her torch before her and stride on toward her final destination whose name we may never know.

And those are the events dramatized in the movie Cloverfield.

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It’s the feast day of St. Gundolf, most widely known for being the secondary patron of the city and church at Maastricht, watching pagans get devoured by wolves, and for HELPING TO DESTROY THE ONE RING. You knew it was coming. Don’t pretend you’re surprised.