I just got off the phone doing a podcast about my Tom Waits tour for a Canadian newspaper. The National Post - is that a big paper, or an advertising giveaway out of Saskatoon?

In other exciting news: Little League Draft Last Night!

There was last minute drama, and trafficking in human children.

I traded one kid whose father was in the room, for another kid whose mother was in the room.

"You can't just trade my son!"

"Actually, yes. Yes, I can."

But I like my team. I had to walk a tightrope with my measley picks, hampered by Emmett's requirements that (a) I draft one of his friends and (b) I not draft one highly placed player that he didn't like. Sheesh. I pissed off one other coach because my last minute trade meant he didn't get a player he was expecting to get.

But I like my team a lot. After two months of planning and researching the draft I Billy Beaned Bigtime.

The National Post - is that a big paper, or an advertising giveaway out of Saskatoon?

No, it's a big paper. Not as big as it wants to be, but what paper is? ETA: It's owned by a big media chain.

Shocking news: Brett Favre is retiring!

Next month, he unretires again.

Someone please tell me that the guy in charge of the tainted peanut plants will go to jail.

For ita: Jujitsu for the "weaker sex" -- 1930s British newsreels

Ellis sends us these, "Two wonderful 1930s British news reels on how 'the weaker sex' can use jujitsu to deal with 'objectionable people'"

Someone please tell me that the guy in charge of the tainted peanut plants will go to jail.

It sounds like it, anyway. I mean, he knew they were sending out tainted peanut butter. And people died.

jail is too good for him!!

Make him eat the tainted peanuts!

Speaking of peanut butter....

deep fried peanut-butter-cookie-dough-corn-batter-dipped brownie

From The Onion radio news: 14 Sperm Bank Workers Drown In Tragic Spill