sunday short stack

"Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness." - G.K. Chesterton

• Not a single post between stacks...I am so suffering from spotty web access. Suffering, I tell you.
  
• USA series Burn Notice has released a tie-in novel The Fix written by Tod Goldberg. You can read the first chapter here.
• The Boston Phoenix has declared the best band, solo artist, and new band from all 50 states. They got their home state right.
• Coincidentally, Boing Boing harkens back to a series I don't think I missed one episode of as a kid: The Phoenix.
• Time has 10 Things You Can Like about $4 Gas and a kick-ass Mark Twain retrospective. The world needs more Mark Twain.
• Buzzfeed rounds up the latest Langhorne Slim buzz.
• Jesse Helms and Bozo the Clown die within the same 24 hours: the joke writes itself.