I love the fact that everything is literally stardust. And eventually we'll all be stars again.

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

Yay Tom! Congratulations!

Man, in wandering through the house gathering up electronics for tomorrow's electronics waste recycling event, it has become clear to me just how much storage space is being used on dead media. Like, cassettes, dead media. I need to make a concerted effort to digitize everything I want to keep. I could regain half a bookshelf, a closet and two cupboards if I just did that alone. I mean, what is my terabyte of storage space doing sitting there, if not to replace all this physical media?

Good news, Tom!

Jodie Foster on the media frenzy about Kristen Stewart (in particular) and celebrity media culture in general: [link]

So fun: [link]

(Ha, I accidentally first pasted part of a Python tutorial about working with text files. So much less fun.)

Charlie Pierce is a national treasure (even if half the nation would rather he were gagged):

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The Republican Party is shot through now with an impulse to disunion that is almost an autonomic reflex at this point. Every solution they can offer has behind it the iron certainty that we are better off as individuals, that the nation best operates as a simple, loose framework within which those individuals can operate, and not as something we create together so that our individual achievements can be rooted in something greater than ourselves.

I'm pleased to say that my decades-long crush on Jodie Foster has just been nicely re-upped.

Timelies all!

Note to self: Moon Pie not as tasty as you remember.

What if I remember it as nasty and artificial-tasting? The name is romantic as a traditional combination with RC Cola, but the product itself is at the bottom of the list of sweet snacks I'd eat.