Apparently, last night a KSU player literally wet himself on the floor of Bramlage. I initially thought all of these discussions were figurative descriptions of the way KSU lost the game to Oregon. Not so.

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From the pages of the NYT:

Progress was slow and often painful, with Drenning following up his 20-sack Saturday by taking 12 the next week.

“One thing about getting sacked that many times, he learned to get rid of the ball quickly,” Rodriguez said, laughing. “Jed Drenning probably had the quickest release in all of college football.”

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In Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, the local, low-level crime boss calls the Gowanus Canal the only waterway in the world that's 90% guns. People toss other things into the canal, too, apparently. From yesterday's NY Times:

Pollution has plagued the 1.8-mile Gowanus Canal since its early days as a commercial waterway and shipping hub. A tunnel to sweep in clean water from New York Harbor broke down in 1960 and was not repaired until 1999.

The Gowanus is cleaner today than in previous decades, but still bedeviled by sewage overflow and runoff from local industrial plants. Biology students from the New York City College of Technology recently detected gonorrhea in a drop of water from the canal, according to Scienceline, a New York University publication. And scientists have yet to identify the microbes that Mr. Cohen collected, though they do know that they kill red blood cells.

Because urban waters present unusual challenges, like entanglement in fishing line, river currents and low visibility, Mr. Balan said it was important to “zen” with a dive beforehand, to visualize each step. During a recent East River dive, Mr. Cohen accidentally touched the bottom of the river, and plumes of sediment ballooned around him. “I was in a nine-foot impenetrable cloud,” he said.

Everybody in!

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MU played nearly perfect on both sides of the ball while KU played its worst game of the season, but stilll the Tigers barely beat the Jayhawks.

Always say that the Tigers "barely" beat the the Jayhawks.

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Yes, folks, the town that gave us two larger-than-life personalities -- Barack Obama and Dr. No -- was a featured stop on the U.K. Telegraph's tour of America. It earns a story and a blog post. To wit:

El Dorado is in the flatlands of Kansas - an area Mr Obama described in his autobiography as "the dab-smack, landlocked centre of the country".

A place, he wrote, of values which "continue to be my touchstone" but also one where "fear and lack of imagination" could "choke your dreams".

Today, El Dorado is not much changed from the days when Stanley Dunham and his wife Madelyn, who raised him as a teenager in Hawaii when his mother's wanderlust took her back to Jakarta, left there in 1955.

Nodding donkeys mark the places where oil is still pumped from the ground and the town's Main Street, where Stanley's father ran the Farm and Home hardware store, looks like it was frozen in time decades ago.

Not too pleasant-sounding no? Though Dr. No says about the same thing. And the phrase "nodding donkeys" is awesome.

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The good news: I have a copy for Hellx if he hasn't either 1) Already bought an entire stack at some newsstand, or 2) hasn't somehow conspired to have them all gathered and burned.

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Woo-hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11-0!!!!!!!!!!! Ku football!!!!!!!!!!! Woo-hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #2 in the BCS!!!!!!!!!! Un-fucking believeable!!!!!!!!!! Woo-hoo!!!!!!!!!!

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The best part of this story: Like many of the people who have seen his movies, David Lynch had absolutely no idea what was going on:

But at a meeting this week at a culture center in Berlin, Lynch triggered a less than peaceful exchange with German onlookers when Emanuel Schiffgens, his partner for establishing such a "university" in the German capital, suddenly veered into dangerous waters.

"We want an invincible Germany!" intoned Schiffgens, the self-styled Raja of Germany. The flap those words created, with their echoes of the Third Reich, reveals both the deadly seriousness with which Germans view their wartime past and the gulf separating Lynch's new-age agenda from that of some hard-bitten Berliners with a more historical mind-set.

"What do you mean by this concept of invincibility," asked an onlooker from the audience, made up mainly of film students with a smattering of meditation devotees. "An invincible Germany is a Germany that's invincible," replied a Delphic Schiffgens, who was dressed in a long white robe and gold crown. "Adolf Hitler wanted that too!," shouted out one man. "Yes," countered Schiffgens. "But unfortunately he didn't succeed." At that the crowd began shouting epithets at the speaker: "You are a charlatan! This is bad theater!" Lynch, who does not speak German, looked on in incomprehension.

Other believers in TM: Clint Eastwood, Howard Stern, Hugh Jackman.

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I wanna be a hawkstar

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Homeowners, it seems, hurt the economy. And they spend way too much time at Bed Bath and Beyond.

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as found on EDSBS

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The New Yorker this week has a brief piece on how vanity addresses are assigned in New York City. After spending the longest time trying to figure out the system behind the numbering at Times Square, I was happy to learn that there is no system behind the numbering.

A couple of the buildings discussed in the piece have been mentioned on Norlos before like 4 Times Square and 62 W. 62nd, aka The Allegro.

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...and you haven't. Bitchez. I am King Geek.

But I'm starting to sour on the show. I liked it in the beginning when it was about flawed losers who survived the apocalypse only by luck and have to struggle with thin resources and rebuilding a society from scratch. It's becoming a metaphysical fatalist hodgepodge.

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There's a new member of the pantheon of Lawrence kooks and, as seen on national TV, his name is White Owl.

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This Saturday at 8 p.m. Anybody who calls Mike Bloomberg mayor in a position to watch? Unclear to me whether it will be available in this region. Sports bar may be in order.

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I pay a lot more attention these days to the fat packets my company sends me that describe in miserably precise detail the size of my co-pay, the economic guild to which my doctor belongs and the names of programs that try to get the dollar symbol into their name -- Med$pend, anyone? Dr. No no longer has benefits, so she's on my plan. Meanwhile, the union at work just gave up some serious ground on benefits. I'm not union but my benefits are tied to whatever my lefty firebrand colleagues manage to squeeze out of The Man.

Benefit plans come and go like teenage fads and I've never paid attention before. Premiums? Do I pay premiums? Maybe. Guess so. That's probably good. Like, if I get hit by a bus or something. It helps to understand that I'm indestructible. You know when scientists and people with schoolin' talk hypotheticals about an indestructible force and an immovable object? Yeah, that's me.

So I kinda resent this monthly tithe that could be better spend on, say, Buffalo wings. Or beer. Or, preferably with no health benefits at all, Buffalo wings and beer. That seems like a solid course for success.

Of course, Dr. No just walked away from the dentist without paying for much of it, and got a funny half face of Novacane as a bonus. So benefits are good. When they leave you numb.

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The WSJ asks whether daylight savings time saves any energy. While this may have been the original rationale for implementing the change, it's not important to me. The reason why I'm a fan of DST is because I'm not an early riser and I like to have the extra daylight to do things after work during the spring, summer and fall.

During the winter, though, I'm all about leaving the office when it's dark. It just feels more like the holidays.

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I've commented on my ambivalence to Hillary Clinton before and I'm especially ambivalent to two families dominating the presidency for nearly a quarter of a century, but, in this era of spineless Democrats, more and more I feel like Clinton is the only Democrat who's fucking tough. When you think about all the shit that's been put out there about her over the past twenty years, for her to want to invite the increased scrutiny that comes with being a presidential candidate, well, that's hardcore.

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