sunday short stack

"I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.” - William S. Burroughs

• When I went to bartending school (yeah, I'm a sucker), cocktails from the '70s were a large part of the curriculum, so I'm glad to see they're "back."
• Congratulations to Michael Chabon on his Hugo Award.
• This week, you have 100 Olympic Athletes to Watch.
• Neatorama has origins of familiar phrases like "steal someone's thunder" and "have a screw loose."
• Buy the new album from The Walkmen for $5 to benefit the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
• 5 Mad Scientists Who Went Too Far and 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High
• Visit the Toaster Museum - all toasters, all the time.
• Even George Orwell has a blog.
• The Stupidest Haircuts on the Internets
• Ever wondered what flicks are screening in our parallel universe? Wonder no longer.
• 10 Things That Make Blokes Cry
• How well do you know the candidates?
• "Everything Kafka wrote, every postcard he ever sent, every page of his diary... is regarded as a potential Ark of the Covenant... Yet no-one has ever shown his readers Kafka's porn."