Just overheard a woman holding a leash with a dog on the other end of it say this priceless gem:

“Cats are so last season. This season it’s all about dogs.”

Guess I’ll have to return this armadillo, then.

Inexplicably awoken, I found myself up for an odd hour last night, or, really, this morning. And one of the first things that was on my mind at around 4am, was

“Why are bidets so popular in other parts of the world, and so unpopular here?”

It’s a question that’s bothered me for years, ever since I learned about bidets and France and stuff. Fortunately, this time, rather than lose the rest of the night to restless tossing and turning, I remembered this thing called the Intarwebs. So I posted the question to AskMetaFilter. It was …

You probably already know this one, but I just heard it for the first time last night, watching The Big Lebowski. I guess there’s a Stones version, but the one on the soundtrack is a lot prettier than anything I could ever imagine Keif and Mick doing…

Send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won’t forget to put roses on your grave.

Did any of my friends who live there see this staging of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video in the streets of Lexington, KY? Vas eet kool? Deed eet excite your emooootions?