Since 5:43pm yesterday evening, the sun and rain have been engaged in some sort of <a href="http://www.weather.com/outlook/homeandgarden/pets/hourbyhour/10016?from… tango</a> &#151; the sunshine whips the rain furiously across the dance floor, the rain stomps forcefully upon the sunshine. One moment is blue and gold, the next is streaked with gray. Lightning and thunder have me constantly looking over my shoulder and out onto the City rooftops. All that I can see is wet and droopy and confused. This type of weather makes me wonder what we've done wrong. Why are we being punished? I blame it on Elizabeth. This is what happens when people go on vacation.

More Eno, Wes? Why yes, thank you.

Gary Younge discovered that America is a big country&mdash;too big to be just one thing.

That's an anagram of "Brown's bestseller <I>The Da Vinci Code</I>." Oh drat! I just gave away answer #4 on this important cultural quiz. And, if you haven't already done so, read Tony Scott's hilarious review of the movie from yesterday's <I>NY Times</I>.

After a hard afternoon of sunbathing, relaxing in the dark living room is nice, too.

Bagheera and Huckleberry have pruned the Venetian blinds so they can bask in the late afternoon sun.

Erstwhile <I>Stereophile</I> scribe and <I>Audio</I> editor Corey Greenberg has a new mission: To bring back the manly art of wet-shaving with a badger hair brush and a "real" razor. No matter how obscure the subject, Greenberg's always an entertaining read.