« Here is the food system [of Lesotho, which has no currency]: If you have an excess of vegetables, put a green flag over your roundhouse hut. If you have an excess of meat, put up a red flag. And if you have an excess of beer, put up a yellow or white flag. After awhile, you’ll get an idea of who tends to have an excess of what, and you send them an instant message to see if they want to trade. By IM’ing, I mean you send one or two kids. I couldn’t stomach the pineapple beer they brew. However, their greens are excellent. »

—Joshua Levin at Goodeater.com

Straight Up Chess. I want one! [Via Purple Pawn]

« I think, perhaps, that we are a nation as depressed as our economy. Everyone knows that in chronic depression, one of the first things to go is the sex drive. We must not let it destroy us. As Americans, we deserve better porn. If a MILF shall lead us, it will be to the dry desert of celibacy. Trust me. I’ve seen Palin porn. »

Violet Blue

« Don’t we all want our food to be like bursts of fire and panting gladiators? »

Hapy, fat and meatless

Sardines with a red dress on…

« Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity »

— Ode to Sean Hannity, John Cleese

  • somebody said: Lunch: penis & jelly sandwich on white bread, mac ‘n cheese. I am five years old.
  • somebody said: there’s always cold penis sandwiches.
  • somebody said: eating penis sandwiches and drinking decaf earl grey. So Happy
  • somebody said: currently eating a ham cheese and penis sandwhich thinking how funny Kerian would look dressed as a pirate!

Twitter is Penis is obsessed with penis sandwiches.

A Dexter inspired dining room. Wtf?

Poison’d (as wordled).

I Wear Gloves On My Hands And Feet Because I Am A Monkey by Elin

Sleeping Beauty Gives Me Calcium by Elin.

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi. My mini review is over at LibraryThing.

Bookhunter by Jason Shiga is one of the best things I’ve read all year.

A basis point (‰) is one one-hundredth of a percentage point—a fraction of a fraction. It’s used to describe a differential from an interest rate that is expressed as a percentage. Why am I only learning this now?

« When erudition comes in, poetry departs. »

—Unspiek, Baron Bodissey