Wes Phillips

And his mom, of course—and the upcoming movie. The Virginia Quarterly, which is rapidly becoming my favorite periodical, published Ellroy's afterword to the new edition of The Black Dahlia.

One fan figured it should have taken two minutes, tops.

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What do paleontologists do?


When they're in the field with their crew?


The digger when he's failing?


The geologist when she's glum?


The site carpenter who's wailing?


From nailing


His thumb?


When they're beset and besmirched


The folk most involved in research


However do they manage


To shed their weary lot?


Oh, what do paleontologists do


We do not?

You take a 600 Hz tone and adjust the amplitude and phase relationships among three speakers. My buddy Jeff swears he saw this done in Jersey with just two loudspeakers, but I think he was just listening at such high volume that his eyeballs were compressing.

This is a really sweet video from Fast Focus' Lennon Legend. I've always loved Lennon's soulful version of this classic—what a great slow dance.

The Economist tells us something we already know. Wait a minute . . .

Damn straight! Hic!