“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” Read more

GHOST TOWN PHOTOS: Beyond awesome. Read more

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

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 a blogwatcher, Sheena is a blogwatcher now… Mark Byron: Good long post about why McCain will stay with the GOP. (Grunt. Sigh.) Dave Copeland: Hates... Read more

“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” Read more

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

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 begins: Science uber-what? Britney f***ing Spears, Stop teasing dirty old men: Do porn, already! You’re Republican? Even though you’re also black? Conform, man, conform! Andrew... Read more

POETRY WEDNESDAY: From T.S. Eliot: “Whispers of Immortality” [clipped] Read more

And I wonder, still I wonder– Who’ll watch the blogs? Mickey Kaus, Hater of Permalinks: Good politico round-up post on the “McCain should be a Democrat!” brigade. News for Christians: Interesting legal case in which British court rejects utilitarianism. Relevant to cloning. Matt Welch: Scott Rubush: Not necessarily a rock’n’roll conservative, but perhaps a salsa conservative?? And the New York Press has this scattershot but interesting article on the black culture-criticism industry. The bell hooks interview with L’il Kim is... Read more

And now I’m just gonna watch “Scrubs.” Because it’s really, really funny. Read more