Even my conference travels can’t keep me from serving up some Unrequired Reading links to while away your Fridays, dear readers! Enjoy!
When I was a child, I wanted to be a veterinarian. These animals scare the living crap out of me.
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They didn’t spill a drop.
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“And, in the original, they’re the Baseball Eumenides. . .”
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I wish this article on hangovers and their history came out before I began this conference trip. (I’ve actually made out okay: middle-of-the-night headaches, but no other badness, despite my attempts at drinking all the Hendricks in Philadelphia)
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Has HBO become kinda aimless, post-Sopranos? I like how the writer sorta goofs on the “Big Themes” meme among the HBO execs. Fortunately, their vampire series will have plenty of Big Themes.
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Rick Astley is never gonna give us up.
Is the Rickroll the new version of ‘Hoffing’ someone?