The Daily Twit

• 13:25 heading up 75 in search of fuel #
• 14:08 Finally scored some sweet 1203 at exit 290 with the low fuel light on. Whew -- I didn't have a plan for what happens if a quarter of a t ... #
• 14:22 Taking it slow on the way home! #
• 15:28 I dislike these road signs that say 'stop for [pedestrian] in crosswalk'. That should really be a WHILE. #
• 23:36 @marclip You madman! You'll cause a loop! #
• 23:38 Dear God, please let #McCain be #suspending his campaign in the same sense in which #Hillary suspended hers. #

Alton Brown on colonialism

"I'm going to make Aurora a le-le stick, the traditional fungi stirring stick of the Caribbean.  I don't know if there are ramifications out of making it out of mango, but -- *laugh* like most good colonial powers, I'll be long gone before the ramifications of my actions come fully to bear!" -- Feasting on Waves, "Fungi with Foraging and Fish"

The Sandman

Dang!  The two library systems near me, combined, don't have all the volumes of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman -- not even volume one.  So I've got volume nine, and I can get volume six, but I'm going to have to keep an eye open for used copies of volume 1 so I can get hooked.

Watchmen was so much cheaper... but much shorter, of course...

Blog Karaoke: What makes you proud to be human?

Please give me your thoughts on this.

Especially if you don't usually comment, take a moment and step up to the mic so we can hear you.

According to Amiri Baraka, "Art is whatever makes you proud to be human."

What has made you proud to be human?

(no subject)

If you like good writing about bad writing, read this AND its comments:

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/ends_and_means_2.php

Some of my favorite comments:

• Man, that guy is a ridiculous cockbag. At least he’s always on the last page so it’s easy to skip him.


• Some people seem to think that Leon Wieseltier is an excellent literary critics, and certainly I’m in no position to question anyone’s literary criticism skills.
  Actually, I am in such a position, being a professional literary critic (ie, I have a job and am paid by a major university to do literary criticism, believe it or not–I still can’t really), and I can assure you: Leon Wiseltier is a terrible, and terribly pretentious, literary critic. So, breathe easy.
  
• It reads like someone’s attempt to enter a parody of George Will in a Bulwer-Lytton contest. What utter crap.