This is going to be a short post.

Happy New Years!

Jean-Paul Sartre’s Cooking Diary

–October 3
Spoke with Camus today about my cookbook. Though he has never actually eaten, he gave me much encouragement. I rushed home immediately to begin work. How excited I am! I have begun my formula for a Denver omelet.

–October 4

A newly appointed manager of a chocolate shop had to flee his job after branding the town a “s***-hole” online.

Steve Beall was moved from his home town in the North East to run the new Cafe Thorntons in the shipbuilding town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, two weeks ago.

But he kept an online diary, or blog, on the popular Myspace.com website - branding his new home “rough and boring”.

It tastes like creationism and grits:

“Cool” people think country is hopelessly square. Country singers neither cuss like rappers nor grapple so boldly with “edgy” subjects. “Some messages are clearly not allowable [in country music], like ‘Fuck tha police’ or ‘I got 99 problems and a bitch ain’t one’,” writes Chris Willman in his excellent book “Rednecks and Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music”. “But then there are messages that aren’t allowable in any other popular-music genre that flourish here, such as: I wish I’d been there when my mama died. I miss my husband in Iraq. Babies and old people rule. If I die, take care of my kids for me.”

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Jesus is doing it again, this time, as a Komodo Dragon (PS I heard the Virgin Mary stuck a snake up her puss — unsubstantiated rumor):

LONDON, England (Reuters) — Flora, a pregnant Komodo dragon living in a British zoo, is expecting eight babies in what scientists said on Wednesday could be a Christmas virgin birth.

Flora has never mated, or even mixed, with a male dragon, and fertilized all the eggs herself, a process culminating in parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. Other lizards do this, but scientists only recently found that Komodo dragons do too.

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For those regular readers who may have noticed this burgeoning young (unofficial?) travel editor providing unparalleled insight into “off-the-road” destinations and situations, we bring another fine piece for those interested in following up on our earlier suggestion of Kenya as a suitable vacation-land.

In fact, it seems that there is a bustling underground economy, or bribery, as those stateside might think to call it. The author explains:

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some things we all need to realize: Santa is a child molester, and he’ll finger you in the butthole if you are a naughty kid. I am NOT kidding.

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