Leftovers & Links #45

From a review of a book I quickly decided not to read:
The author follows the lives of nine interconnected characters…

Over and out, right there.

Leftovers & Links #44

My backfiring old beater is being recalled, for some possible mechanical issue. I know this because I’ve received a post card from Chevrolet. … [read more]

Leftovers & Links #43

Happy sloth!

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A touch of optimism to start your day:
Navy launches ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk. … [read more]

I’m always amazed when I cook something and it comes out good, and this came out pretty good, so let me quick-bang out the recipe before I forget it. … [read more]

Leftovers & Links #42

A dead man’s body was autopsied for a paying audience ($500 tickets)  without his or his family’s consent, as part of the traveling Oddities and Curiosities Expo.

Boychoir, The Day After Tomorrow, Hocus Pocus, New Waterford Girl, Pump Up the Volume, Rubber Gun, Source Code.

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Boychoir or The Choir
(2014) — YES —A boy’s heavy-drinking mother dies, and he’s sent to a private school, and joins the choir. … [read more]

Leftovers & Links #41

There are probably exceptions and it’s not one of the Ten Commandments or anything, but when a politician says “quite frankly,” quite frankly you’re about to hear bullshit.

 Leftovers & Links #40

It’s corny and sanctimonious, but here’s a dinosaur from the UN’s Development Programme, a branch of the bureaucracy that’s worried about climate change.

 Leftovers & Links #39
Click any image to engorge.

I mostly grew up, mostly, in Seattle, where the ‘Denny regrade’ is a neighborhood. ‘Regrade’ means it had once been Denny Hill, but the hill had been carried away to make the city flatter.