Sports writers use a lot of hyperbole. It's kind of the nature of the job. Think about it: let's say you're on the hometown baseball beat for a major metropolitan media outlet for two years. That means watching 324 games of baseball (not counting spring training, and potentially the World Baseball Classic and the postseason), many of them completely indistinguishable from the rest; all of which you are expected to summarize in a completely unique way, often times needing to finish immediately after the last pitch is thrown. So yeah, hyperbole kind of wades its way into the prose more than some might prefer. more ›

So in one of those freak occurrences involving a meteorite striking a doctor's office in Lorton, Virginia, a meteorite struck a doctor's office in Lorton -- and things got weird. Cool and collected doctors Marc Gallini and Frank Ciampi, having nearly been struck by bits of space rock falling from the universe, decided to donate this chunk of ancient sky to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History -- thinking that they would in turn give the Smithsonian's $5,000 prize for the rock to earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. more ›

::FiZ:: must have been doing a Superman crawl to frame this shot of stylin' Chucks at dusk, the first of its kind in the DCist Photo Pool. According to very scientific analysis, no one else has been brave enough to get down on the ground at a bus stop to take a picture. EXIF. more ›

Bryan Singer spent something like $200 million a few years back trying to revive the Superman movie franchise. Shaikh Nasir’s Malegaon ka Superman came somewhat more frugally: about two grand. But every rupee of that modest sum is on the screen. He shoots on a handheld digicam. A "dolly shot" consists of three guys stabilizing him and pushing him forward on a bicycle while he clutches the camera with both hands. And he sure isn’t going to hire a stunt double for Sheikh Shafique, the poor, scrawny bastard he’s cast as the Last Son of Krypton. more ›