Adieu, Milton Cougar

The cougar they shot in Chicago was the same one seen in Wisconsin last month. Story here.

AIRWOLF!!!

I'm not generally a big fan of spoken word poetry, unless it's a poem about Airwolf.

My New Favorite Photographer Who Photographed People Mowing Underwater

I really, really, really love these underwater photographs featured in the new issue of Smithsonian.

Good Eats

The farmer's market started up here today. Honestly, I've never gone all that often, but I feel like I should. They have a lot of good stuff.

Some of the more interesting items purchased today, all of which got worked into my lunch: goat milk cheddar cheese (very strong), ostrich burgers (delicious), hazelnut honey (light and pleasant), spicy venison jerky (awesome), sunchokes (interesting . . . they told me these tasted like a cross between a potato and watercress, and they do! I'd never even heard of these little root veggies before.).

"The coach . . . threw in the towel to spare his pitcher’s arm with his team losing 66-0"

Um, wow. That's a pretty tough kid, though, just to be able to stay in there through all of that. Also, this kind of reminds me of some of the worst of our little league games when I was a kid, which probably would have gotten this bad if we didn't have the ten-run rule.

Old-timey Photograph of the Day

Will the person who invented photography take one step forward, please? Not so fast, Henry Fox Talbot. Cool story about an early photograph, from yesterday's NYT.

Screaming for Excedrin