Basically Bread Loaf
Bagheera assumes the bread loaf position—one of the mandatories in the Kitty Olympiad.
Wes Phillips
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Elvis' Jewish Roots?
John Marks sends along this <A HREF="http://www.elvispresleynews.com/JewishElvis.html">"respectful and perhaps link-worthy page on Elvis' Jewishness"</A>.
101 No-Fuss Appetizers
<A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/dining/19mini.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">…; is Mark Bittman's third collection of 101 no-hassle dishes. These aren't gimmicks—they're good food designed to be made in under 20 minutes (frequently <I>much</I> under), using foods you might have around the house. (Over the years, I've discovered that a little prep at the shopping stage guarantees that you'll have the ingredients to make good food fast.)
Covers From Beyond the Id
Back when I worked at the lower Broadway Tower Records, those crazy cut-ups in the Classical Annex culled the stupidest, most cheesecakey covers from the used bins and covered a wall-of-shame in the count-out room with them.
Martin Puryear in Perspective
I'm a huge fan of Martin Puryear's sculpture, having discovered it at a 1987 Hirschhorn retrospective. So I've been <I>meaning</I> to catch up with his current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Arthur C. Danto's <A HREF="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071231/danto">appreciation</a> in <I>The Nation</I> serves not only as a stimulus to hie me hence forthwith, but also as a meditation on MOMA's second-floor atrium.
Thanks, I Needed That
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Arghh Matey
Helen A. S. Popkin has written a fine <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22251370/">opinion piece</A> on the new, phenomenally wrong-headed Congressional Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP Act), which among other things (such as absurd penalties) includes a spanking new enforcement agency called WHIPER (White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative).
Perfect Score
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Embiggening Lincoln
Andrew Ferguson has written a <A HREF="http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2007-11/Interview.html">highway history</A> of Abraham Lincoln. Among other observations, he points out that the man who "waged one of the most savage wars in our history" was definitely <I>not</I> non-judgmental.
How to Say Love in "Click"
<A HREF="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/boyinthemoon">Walker Brown</A> was born 11 years ago with "an impossibly rare and random genetic mutation—cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome, a technical name for a mash of symptoms. He is globally delayed and can't speak, so I never know what's wrong. No one does."