Holy moly! <I>An Aquarium Drunkard</I> has posted an entire album's worth of outtakes from the 1962 <I>The Freewheeling Bob Dylan</I> sessions. That's 25 tracks&mdash;cancel work for today!

The theory was perfect but the patient stubbornly died. Two new books set Druin Burch a'thinking.

Why you get more of a buzz from that cold beer on a hot summer's day. (News you can use!)

Jill Lapore on how she spent International Talk Like a Pirate Day in 2003. It's a good 'un, me barnacle-encrusted boobies.

My first year in New York, my friend Larry Bassman was stunned to learn I'd never been to an opera, so he picked up the phone and ordered two tickets to that night's performance at the Met. It was <I>Peter Grimes</I>, starring Jon Vickers. What a tough act to follow.

This comic strip from the Perry Bible Fellowship seems to suggest that you can screw your way out of a crises. If they say so . . . .