It's only our 5th, and technically knives are given on the 50th.
But come on. A St. Sebastian cutlery rack?
How deathrock is that?!?
If its literary peculiarities could somehow be removed from the equation, The World Is Flat would appear as no more than an unusually long pamphlet replete with the kind of plug-filled, free-trader leg-humping that passes for thought in this country. It is a tale of a man who walks 10 feet in front of his house armed with a late-model Blackberry and comes back home five minutes later to gush to his wife that hospitals now use the internet to outsource the reading of CAT scans. Man flies on planes, observes the wonders of capitalism, says we're not in Kansas anymore. (He actually says we're not in Kansas anymore.) That's the whole plot right there. If the underlying message is all that interests you, read no further, because that's all there is.
Kekaimalu, whose name means "from the peaceful ocean," was born after a surprise coupling between a 14-foot, 2,000-pound false killer whale and a 6-foot, 400-pound dolphin.
[...]aquarists — convinced the eggs weren't fertile — began draining her 3,600-gallon tank. As the water went down and she was going down with it, she sprayed her eggs, now exposed and drying on a rock.," DeCastro said.
Behold Brendan's gorgeous new weblog:
¡Half a Monkey!
Fox Reality will air a continuous stream of favourites such as Joe Millionaire and Temptation Island. At first most of the content will be reruns and one-off original shows with behind-the-scenes footage, updates on reality personalities and commentary.
The Pope.
Alan Dundes.
Who completes that trifecta?
Hey, man. What did you have for lunch?
A chipmunk-sized rice bowl. How about you?
Squirrel-sized burrito. (Urp.)
Wow. Red, grey, or ground squirrel?
Grey. I could only eat half.
So you have like a whole chipmunk left for later!
No, I gave it to that guy on the corner. He gave me a swig from his daschsund-sized bottle of gin.
Cocktails at lunch? You rebel.
It's the only way to get through these aardvark-sized meetings.
Houghton Mifflin, which reportedly paid Foer an advance of $1 million, put a full-page ad for "Extremely Loud" in yesterday's Times. [...] The paperback rights sold for $925,000. A film of the book is due this summer. Screen rights to the new novel also have been sold.