BEAT REPORTERS? THEY DON’T BEAT ENOUGH OF ‘EM! Hee hee.

Just because I asked a friend about her, Just because I watched her blog somewhere, Just because I rang her number by mistake today, She thinks I still care… Evan Day: Yet another Harvard blogger. This proves that Harvard is boring, leaving undergrads nothing to do with their free time except blog, whereas Yale is [...]

“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like them myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.” –Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, “The Big Sleep”

GHOST TOWN PHOTOS: Beyond awesome.

EXCELLENT NR editorial slamming Bush. (And pointing out his good moves, and offering advice on what to do to stop the presidential drift.)

Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go (they’re ready to go now) They’ve got their surfboards and they’re going to the discotheque a-go-go, But she just couldn’t stay, She had to break away, Well New York City really has it all, oh yeah, oh yeah…. Sheena is a blogwatcher, She-e-ena is [...]

“Maybe I am just a dame and didn’t know it. Maybe I like being picked up by a guy on a binge.” –Barbara Stanwyck to Wendell Corey, “The File on Thelma Jordan”

BE DRACULA’S BABY: Count Dracula seeks an heir. I am not making this up. Link via Amygdala.

THE OLD CONTEST got very few responses. I am unloved. So we’ll skip directly to the new contest. (Apologies to both people who actually sent in entries…) The new contest: Haiku! Send me haiku (5-7-5) on any topic that seems EveTushnet.com-like–politics, culture, whatnot. Shamed offers some examples: Pro-clones hate Ramesh, But won’t say when life [...]

POETRY WEDNESDAY: From T.S. Eliot: “Whispers of Immortality” Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs Tightening its lusts [...]