Writing Links
Did you know? God has a memoir. And Walmart isn’t interested.
One author loves Moby-Dick so much he wrote an entire book just trying to convince you to read it. In his words: “it’s as close to being our American Bible as we have.” Melville’s masterpiece is still languishing unread on my shelf at the moment, but I’ll get to it eventually.
English: we need some gender-neutral pronouns already. Let’s get on that. Dinosaur Comics is totally calling you out.
Non-Writing Links
In case you haven’t heard: Jimmy Kimmel asked parents to tell their kids they had eaten all their Halloween candy, and videotape the responses. You’ve never seen so much crying. It’s schadenfreuderrific!
Here’s a video of a moth beating its wings in slow motion. That is all.
Some science news: a few of those universal constants may not be as constant as we thought.
And finally today – it turns out there is something called “chap hop,” which is Victorian hip-hop. Steampunk rap, in other words. People. Why didn’t you tell me about this? Here’s Professor Elemental launching another salvo in his ongoing feud with Mr. B, The Gentleman Rhymer:
My plans for the weekend revolve around the mutually contradictory ideals of finally getting caught up on my To Do list, and chillaxing. What about you?
Brian D. Buckley 