sunday short stack
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." - Horace Walpole
- I'd like to see a showdown between Entertainment Weekly's 50 Smartest People in Hollywood vs. the Daily News's Top 50 Dumbest People in Hollywood. Maybe something involving chess and buckets of mustard.
- LAist editor Tony Pierce has been lured away by the LA Times siren song.
- John Updike writes on bizarre dinosaurs for National Geographic.
- Beware the time-sucking Chain Factor.
- While you're in the holiday spirit, buy something for the kids of 826LA (especially the new Echo Park location).
- Linda Thompson covers Tom Waits's "Day After Tomorrow" over at the fun NPR Song of the Day site.
- Someone has collected photos of cats caught mid-pounce in what seems like an everyman homage to Philippe Halsman.
- WFMU has Brian Wilson's 1989 rap debut, "Smart Girls."
- Robot cockroaches fool fellow cockroach brethren.
