Thursday miscellanea #97

• BP is using Photoshop to create “photographs” of its crisis response—often and badly.  This is needless and damaging stupidity.  Why?
• Friends, Romans, countrymen:  never email me to ask me what a word means.  If you’re emailing me, you’re online.  Think there might be an online dictionary or 50 out there?
• A new colleague is someone from whom I lived two apartments away almost 14 years ago.  Cue Twilight Zone theme.  I kept thinking she looked familiar.
• I believe Five Guys is the best burger in northern Alabama.  Productive contradictions encouraged.
• I’ve noticed that high school movies set in the past rarely get the cars right.  If a movie is set in 1957, the parking lot can’t be full of 1957 cars.  Most of the cars need to be 6 to 10 years old or so.  Children coming to school in new cars is a relatively recent phenomenon.
• I just saw a television commercial for toilet paper that boasted of “fewer pieces left behind.”  That’s just a tad too familiar, don’t you think?
• I’m digging the Taddy Porter record.  Strong Southern rock vibe—vaguely Skynyrdish, even—but considerably heavier.  It’s a good recipe.

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