Seriously, wear a helmet.
Hot Walnuts
This day Viv and I had the pleasure of dining in the company of Eric and Anne at the Pink Door. This followed an extended sojourn about the streets of the traditional rush-hour downtown traffic. It is to the credit of the visiting parties that they did not leap out of the car in honest expression of the fear they undoubtedly felt with me at the wheel.
The Hat of Change
languagehat drops a few lines on the subject of ethnogenesis which I found worthwhile. Take it one more extrapolative point further, and ask yourself, what is it to be a citizen of the New World? Our word for shark is said to be from the Nahuatl “xoc,” after all.