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You've got tatoos, a custom fixed gear bicycle and a "friend's band" involved...

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A tremendously informative, if profane, treatise on BP's repsonse to the oil spill in the gulf...

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Earlier this week I got a text from Jebus that read:

Hey I need you to share godparent responsibility with TSI!'s cousin kristen. This is the most personal medium I know...

This is the most personal medium that I know to accept...

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Last year NYPL asked famous people to speak out on NYPL's behalf and put it on youtube. That video has gotten a whopping 13,000 hits on youtube.

This year NYPL has taken a different tack and the videos, over the course of a week, have crushed last year's videos. One features a skateboarding dog:

(Voltaire's Candide is the favorite book of NYPL's president)

The most successful, though, in getting NYPL in front of eyeballs is Improv Everywhere's Ghostbuster's video:

I'm actually kind of meh about the video for entertainment value, but I like the fact that it's gotten a million plus views. It's an interesting example of a non-profit organization changing it's communication strategy.

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I just loves me some fried octopus balls.

I first had 'em in Tokyo, when we were running around town trying to find an odd bar district called Golden Gai. Every neighborhood in Tokyo has a neighborhood map displayed prominently on the street that's relatively easy to follow, or so it seemed. But every time we used it we got more and more lost. (We eventually realized that "north" did not equal "up" on those maps, but instead the maps were turned in whatever direction made them look best. Darn the Japanese and their awesomeness at design.) We hadn't eaten yet so I bought some as the takoyaki stand was the only place selling food on the street. I bit in and promptly burned my mouth something fierce.

In Tokyo they're served in open-air bars without stools, so salarymen will stand at tables and eat them with yummy Yebisu beer.

In Hong Kong they're sold in the Causeway Bay central shopping area.

Make your own, courtesy Cooking with Dog.

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Punctuation matters.

I read to the fetus. Is that weird? We think he likes Pajama Time. Or he may just like the way mama sloshes when she moves. It's a fine line.

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Or should I reserve it for the bean casserole recipe? The pen? The clothes pin? Perhaps I should hold out for the seedless blackberry jam.

Local politics in a small town can be very interesting.

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