Nine Fine Wikipedia Entries, on the Occasion of Its Ninth Birthday @10:54 AM
Wikipedia commingles inane and profound topics willy-nilly, most always with equal weight and seriousness of tone. Cataloging everything under the sun with such seriousness of purpose and attention to detail is an amazing endeavor. The excerpts that follow are both very silly and very informative. The complete entries on "Deep-fried Mars Bar" and "Exploding Whale," for example, are each almost as long and serious in tone as the entry on "Immanuel Kant." They highlight the oddity and incongruity and wonder of the whole enterprise. What's more, these excerpts are proof that Wikipedia is most likely the most positive development in the history of our extremely troublesome Internet. READ MORE 34
Keith Richards Turns 66 Today @12:50 PM
Seems pretty clear now. He's not going to die until everyone else is dead first. 10
Happy Birthday Lawrence @2:15 PM
Lawrence "Lawrence" Hayward, formerly of Felt and Denim, and currently of Go-Kart Mozart, turns 48 today! The screening of last year of Lawrence of Belgravia, a still incomplete documentary, elicited the following observation: "Memorably described as 'a victim of his own experiment'… and a casualty of Britpop's hedonistic game-playing with street-level drugs in the mid 90s, the once teetotal Lawrence now looks like some forsaken wraith, the ashen ghost of juvenile pop dreams thwarted." Hopefully he's much better now! A couple of videos follow. READ MORE 2
Underparenting: The Birthday Party, And Its Preparations @5:06 PM
Why was it that I baked the brownies from scratch? Well, first of all, there needed to be brownies. It's the kid's birthday, the actual birthday as opposed to the day we had the birthday party, and we were given to understand—in the way such understandings are given—that some parents like to send in treats for the preschool class on the birthday, to contribute to the birthday observances. Such things are done. READ MORE 23
