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Strange that there’s never been any rox avec lying sweet-talk, now that I think about it.

Oh, hello! What have you been up to lately? Here are a few things I’ve been enjoying.
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
People either love or hate her, but her George Saunders-esque take on Everglades life is engaging and poignant, so far. And some of her sentences are just killer. Extra credit for the awesome anhinga reference.
Peanut butter […]

It has been such a lovely weekend so far. It seems especially luxurious after having to go to work last Saturday for the big site launch (a roaring success, hooray, and worth a bottle of Veuve Clicquot at the company meeting Friday), and getting Martin Luther King Day off tomorrow will be the icing on […]

Completely awesome, but only in theory, i.e, I wouldn’t want to run into them in real life:

Giant squid (good old architeuthis)
Kraken
Pirates
Ninjas
Sharks
Alligators, crocodiles, caymans
Jellyfish
Bats

Awesome in a purely stylized way:

All of the above, plus:
Birds
Vines, leaves
Fire escapes
Vampires

Awesome in an approachable way:

Dogs
Cats
Toddlers
Guitars
Cupcakes
Robots
Monkeys
Apes
Typewriters

On the way out of the house, I lost my footing on the ice-glazed front steps and fell hard on my back and right wrist. Ow.
In the space of one block near MIT, I saw a dead rat, blood leading from its little head, the wing from a pigeon, which looked as though it had […]