Coming in late, but --

Many sympathies, Jilli.

Hil, the Leo Frank case is fascinating. I'm sure your university library would have something(s) on it. But avoid Tom Watson's work. Watson started out (in the 1890s) as an agrarian populist, but by the time of Frank's trial, Watson had morphed into anyone-who-isn't-like-me-ist.

Gads, sorry Jilli.

re: the little girl's hair.

There's something weirdly tied into chastity/innocence/purity with girls' hair, I've noticed. It's like "my little girl is no longer 'untouched' if we cut off her hair."

Of course, some people are just weird.

It looks like the weather is going to turn hateful tonight. Blech!

I have now reneged entirely on my previous position and I want one of those stick figure car stickers. Just one. To say I'm alone.

Okay, what I really want is a Batman sticker.

Okay, what I really want is a Batman sticker.

Won't you need a Robin sticker then?

Won't you need a Robin sticker then?

Well, actually, it'll be a Batgirl sticker, and she doesn't need a Robin.

A Batgirl needs a Robin like a fish needs a bicycle....

So I kinda pointed out to Boss Man that New Guy wasn't here yet.

It was on topic, honest.

I heard about a building lately that may have become my favorite pointless building in the world, though it's really tragic in a way too.

It's the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea or the Hotel of Doom. This is a 105 story building that was originally supposed to have 3,000 guest rooms and five rotating restaurants at the top . . . in North Korea apparently to serve the thriving tourist business. They stopped construction in 1992 because they ran out of money, and at the time the building was costing 2% of the country's GDP. But construction restarted in 2008 and is supposed to finish in 2012.

Picture of the building in the skyline, that city looks like a poured concrete mold.

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