Agreed, but I listen to so much BBC news at night now that I almost sort of kind of understand it. And the 20-20 cricket looks like a good time. I need to learn more. But, yeah, both are kinda strange, but, when you think about it, just about any sport with a ball, puck, etc., is strange.

Some things:

Office work, mechanization, etc.

Meanwhile, as a member of the male wing of the Capacious Americans, I can say that it's been a long time since I've made pig iron, dug ditches, built a car by hand, or carried heavy loads on my back or elsewhere. I do spend a shitload of time sitting on my ass in front of a computer, though. #HardWork

Lotsa people have, for example, heart attacks in their late 40s or early 50s. This is so sad.

We have two cats. I am a guy, I love cats (weird, eh?) and yet I'd rather not get another, a fourth would make me tense, and cat #5? I'm outta there. Frankly, with 550 cats, the woman in this sad story is very probably mentally ill.

This is really not news as much as it is a reminder that Mugabe is alive, and that he's a first-rate asshole. He'd be a great candidate for a small cell in The Hague if someone had the balls to just stone kidnap him and haul his ass to the Netherlands.

Agreed. And I don't think it would take too long to find four N'western grads who can barely form a complete sentence. Crawford's utterance is perfectly intelligible.

Dear America: This is your city. You own it, pay for it, and get to run it. Please visit it! Hotels are affordable at a mere $250 a night. That is, if you want to stay in the same time zone as Your Capital. Thank your patriotic defense contractors and lobbyists' bagmen.

It's still good. Just don't count on the Red Line "working" on any given day.

Too late for #COTD, alas. This is great.

Funny, he never has a second cup of menses at home.....

Oh, you so totally win. I am LOLing at an airport now, and the few people here are staring at me. Now I am laughing again.....

Oh, wow. Streetcar. I saw the restored director's cut in a theater in Seattle. When Brando came on screen, the audience gasped, loudly. Holy shit, was that dude buff. No movie of Gatsby—as much as I loved that book—can touch Streetcar.

LMAO. Thanks. We have a budding intergenerational consensus!

FWIW, in my college Mod Am Novel class, we read "The Hamlet." The usual crap: way too many words to describe something simple, the idiot man-child sodomizing a cow, the Yanapoknawangotango or whatever county dreariness. And All Those Words. Faulkner once said that Hemingway's writing never challenged the reader to…

And here as well. But I am an Old. You know, kids, lawns, shiny movies, etc.

And yet, he tried so hard for that sort of attention. Sad.

I had to read this book for an English class in college. "Had to" sounds harsh—I took the Modern American Novel course because I saw the reading list, and this was on it, among other books (really good, except for Faulker, ick). So many great books, and Gatsby blew my sophomore mind. The last 45 pages are amazing. I…

Was looking forward to this movie. Then saw the trailer. I'm cured now.