shrift wins.

So far all I've done is decide I want a disapproving rabbit of my very own.

How'd the crab cakes turn out?

One of my bosses is on vacation. And for some reason, I haven't gotten much work done today.

I did ride my bike to work today. Took me half an hour, including the time I stopped and pumped up a flat tire. (Must have run over a piece of glass or something - the tire now goes flat in 15 minutes.)

How'd the crab cakes turn out?

They were all right, especially for a first try. Didn't fall apart. Now that I know what I'm doing, my next attempt should be tastier.

Ha! God, that was a funny bit.

It was! Seriously, a hot guy is always fun to look at but give me a guy with a healthy sense of humor, especially about himself, and I'm a goner.

::looks at man she married::

Yep. Definitely a goner.

An article that seems to be written for Buffistas (Except for the ASSCAPS headline): IN PRINT / THE MOST BIZARRE BOOK TITLES

For anyone with "a passion for shopping carts and a love of the great outdoors," Julian Montague's The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification is a must-read. To most everyone else, the title itself may seem like the juiciest part of Montague's book - which explains its inclusion in the new book Do-It-Yourself Brain Surgery and Other Implausibly Titled Books, described by editor Joel Rickett as the "seminal collection" of the most peculiar book names ever sent to press.

Rickett has dispensed with the quaint, zeroing in on the "utterly, remarkably, jaw-droppingly bizarre." Nuclear War: What's In It for You?, Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them and How to Avoid Huge Ships , or I Never Met a Ship I Liked - an ostensibly serious guide from a "Master Mariner" - are but three of the 50 delicious titles he unearthed while poring over thousands of entries to the Diagram Prize. The award was minted in 1978 by visitors suffering ennui at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and the victor has been published in Bookseller magazine (of which Rickett is deputy editor) every year since.

If your coffee table is looking a little bare, try Outhouses of Alaska. Need a little spice in your life? Perhaps The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories is the answer.

Manuals have proven a fertile genre for odd book titles as well - Knitting With Dog Hair, for example, or Bombproof Your Horse. If you're a doctoral student interested in the Second World War, you might be interested in How Green Were the Nazis? Nature , Environment and Nation in the Third Reich.

Congrats, quester!

Yeah, I just realized the real challenge of today is not so much doing the laundry but putting it away. Feh.

But right now I have to put on outside pants and run to the post office. And get some food, good god. So, I have a reprieve.

I saw the actual Shopping Cart book in the wild a bookstore. It had a lot of pictures, but the extensive copy wasn't very funny.

Monty Python's Flying Circus celebrates 40 years

To mark the anniversary, the five remaining members of the team -- Chapman died in 1989 -- put together a documentary covering the history of the Python team.

Entitled "Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyers Cut)", the film marked the first time in 20 years that all five surviving Pythons have come together on a project.

The five are to be reunited once more on October 15 when they will receive a special BAFTA award for their outstanding contribution to film and television in New York.