From reader John, a photo essay on the Romany in Lyon, France.
Drugs problem: sorted.
I think I’ve figured out why the UK has a drug problem: this anti-drug ad. It makes me want to take fistfuls of drugs. Although it also makes me want to go rambling. Just like Trainspotting!
Grocery shopping
Looks like somebody‘s finally (though I think it’s not the first such service) doing the obvious thing: putting grocery circulars on line. There are some cool-sounding auxiliary features, too. I don’t know how good its knowledge of where you are is; it was pretty close to correct from work.
But daaaaad!
Southwest Custer County, Nebraska, 1892
“Yes, you will play the bass.”
“But dad, I can’t reach all the notes!”
“Don’t ‘but dad’ me, young man, I paid for it, now you’ll play it!”
“Awwww, maaaaaan.”
Sherman Alexie gives me a boner
From The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian:
“But you should approach each book — you should approach life — with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.”
“A metaphorical boner!” I shouted. “What the heck is a metaphorical boner?”
Gordy laughed.
“When I say boner, I really mean joy,” he said.
“Then why don’t you say joy? You didn’t have to say boner. Whenever I think about boners, I get confused.”
“Boner is funnier. And more joyful.”
Sometimes it's more bookmarks than blog
Lifehacker tells us how to get audio off a DVD.
Eric Saunders tells us how to strip ID tags from an MP3.
Because he's delightful, dammit!
I shall force you to go through Graham Linehan, because he is quite delightful, to take a look at some information about and contents of a gem from Simpsons’ writers’ past: Army Man magazine.
an abundance of katherines Review
an abundance of katherines, Green. Yes. Differently annoying from looking for alaska, particularly in having to wait most of the book to find out why presented-as-smart kids are misusing a perfectly fine word. Green (or his editor) is docked points for “anyone except whom he’d already been.” Also, the misuse of “theorem” and the misspelling “discreet particle.”
And so many are in Oregon and Utah
As an impressionable youth, I was always horrified and fascinated by the ads in the back of Sunset magazine for various wilderness survival camps and boarding schools for children who had become “defiant.” How defiant would you have to be to get sent away? Well, turns out these places are even worse than I thought, according to a GAO report. It turns out that combining parental fears, large sums of money, and nearly no oversight can result in tragedy.