Awesomeness: Former secretary of labor Robert Reich has a blog. It’s a shame a short man can’t get elected in this country, or he’d have made some real changes to the country. Good ones.
Correction– he ran for governor here in MA, but lost out in the primary. I voted for him.
The NYT today reviews some new travel-and-food books, providing any number of fun little sentences, some from the books themselves and some presumably from the reviewer.
A book about competitive eating describes a competitor as “a cross between Anna Kournikova, Billie Jean King and a jackal wild on the Serengeti.” Two art-school graduates who search for down-home cooking throughout the US are described as “people who make a point of stopping at prisons to shop at the gift stores.” A tale of a man cooking a giant feast from a 19th century cookbook is “not quite ‘Babette’s Feast,’ but then Babette did not have to stuff half a duck into an antelope bladder.”
I love it when reviewers and pundits write like that. It makes for vastly entertaining reading. Unfortunately, it all too often passes for news. But that’s another story altogether.
Digg and other social news sites have a tendency to flock to news items with particular characteristics. So, when I saw Drunk Monkeys Mirror People, I thought I’d found the ultimate Digg story. Monkeys doing things like people. Monkeys drinking alcohol like people. It’s better than the proverbial Slashdot item about a movie where Natalie Portman uses quantum computing to send Linux to Mars.
But when I checked it only had a few votes on Digg. Maybe it will become incredibly cool in a few hours, and maybe I’m just wrong about monkeys and booze being the coolest things in the world.
Every month or two I get a flyer for the Dahn Yoga group with promises of free brain energy tests or whatever. (Hint: if there’s an energy reading, it’s probably a cult.) And, while brain respiration and the myriad web fronts make me think it’s a pretty weird cult, it’s nothing as bizarre as the one I got today.
The Universe People apparently want to abolish money to … well, there are these evil aliens called Saurians, and these other benign aliens from the Pleiades, led by a guy named Ptaah and also by Jesus. See, and we’re being controlled by the Saurians, who have legions of underground caverns filled with human slaves writing computer software to control the above-ground world. And, um, abolishing money will help us to, um…
Anyway, it’s by far the strangest and least coherent thing anyone has asked me to believe. And that includes the weather forecasting using astrology website I saw yesterday.
I feel pretty silly posting so many pictures of myself, but I shaved off the mustache. It feels very strange: there’s a slightly pale area on my lip where the mustache protected my face from the sun all winter, and I keep reaching up to stroke it and it’s gone. My face looks rounder and younger.
I may have to grow it back.
Do you celebrate Mustache March, or go with the alternate spelling and date, for Moustache May?.
I myself adjusted my mustache yesterday. If possible, it looks even sillier than before. Also it’s uneven and too bushy, so it needs further adjustment today.
I went to Maine this weekend and hey look at the pictures.
Was it the rights of individual states to govern themselves you defended? Was it leaving no child behind? Was it clean air and healthy forests?
Here’s what the latest health care bill would like to destroy.
Check out this ad, because it’s hilarious.
This picture of a blood orange is now my desktop background.
Greek poets once said that the Fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
Secretly Ironic 