“The “Kim Kardashian Principle,” or “KKP,” as Sehdev refers to it, is based on something the author calls, distressingly, “the six principles of SELFIE”—surprise, expose, lead, flaws, intimate, and execute.”

I lost my actual virginity while listening to commentary on an England vs New Zealand cricket match. BBC Radio 4, Test Match Special. I’d been watching it on TV when my girlfriend called to say she was coming over, and when she suggested we go upstairs, I switched the radio on. And I did not turn it off.

Artesian: “relating to or denoting a well bored perpendicularly into water-bearing strata lying at an angle, so that natural pressure produces a constant supply of water with little or no pumping.” Still bullshit, but nothing to do with artisans.

Major American Literary Event Book : MALE Book

I like Marchman's Old English burn on Ohio State—but it's actually a pretty good medieval lit program, with two totally legit Anglo-Saxonists on the faculty.

Well, it's not called Vanity Dark, is it?

Wow—things don't sound happy at Vassar: http://gawker.com/my-vassar-coll…

And his real name was Lancelot.

Do women run the world? Do men run the world? Do the elves run it? Then who run it? Sounds wrong, feels wrong, isn't (strictly grammatically) wrong.

John Inverdale is the worst. He's glib, boorish and infantile, and I've no idea how he's become one of the BBC's main anchor-people. He's less sexist, but equally asinine, when discussing rugby, which is really his sport.