If you've flown anywhere in the last decade or so, you've seen SkyMall, that compendium of useless, hopelessly geeky, and just downright strange products. Pretty hard to parody something like that, eh?
Fred Kaplan's piece on Ornette Coleman in Slate isn't simply a brilliant piece of work, it uses embedded links to their greatest advantage. This ain't easy, although Fred's graceful prose and mastery of his subject sure make it go down smooth.
Today is Elizabeth's birthday. Lucky for us dudes, she spent the day working from home, so we didn't have to get into anything mushy like flowers, or cards, or hugs. Instead, we sat around playing poker, chomping on cigars, and taking slugs of Night Train and Thunderbird. That's what we do when Elizabeth's not around to keep us in line. It's a wonder the magazine gets made at all.
On our morning rides, Jeff Wong and I pass one point that has recently been covered with geese resting on their migration south. We've been wondering why here? and Why a "V"?