I trust that everyone is having a spectacular Lundi Gras. Here are some things that have been piling up in my “to post” box.
Malcolm Gladwell of The Tipping Point and Blink! fame has a new blog. I always confuse him with the Freakonomics guy.
While traveling from New Zealand to Australia, Henry Rollins - punk legend, author, and spoken word guy - was reported by a fellow passenger to Australia’s version of Homeland Secuirty for reading the book Jihad:The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. After pointing out that the book was written by a Wall Street Journal reporter and was published by Yale University, Rollins responded as any of us would:
Please tell your government and everyone in your office to go fuck themselves. Tell them twice. If your boss is looking for something to do, you can tell him I suggest he go fuck himself.
Coincidence?: Then, Morrissey was picked up and questioned by the FBI and the British intel agency for making public statements against the governments. First, they came for the ambiguously asexual cult songwiters…
Over at Neal Pollock’s blog, he posts on hip children’s CDs, cool kids’ books, and a book on sex and the new parent. Pollack offers up his own marital advice (pay attention fellas):
When your wife says “either you watch The Daily Show or get some nik-nik,” always choose the nik-nik unless there’s been some really important national or world event within the last 24 hours.