I can't help being restless
When everything's so tasteless


Ma Quisha, Milk Road, 2007

* From Harper's August 2008:

-- Percentage change by 2012 in the after-tax income of the top 0.1 percent of U.S. earners, under Barack Obama's tax plan: -5

-- Percentage change under John McCain's plan: +12

-- Chance that a U.S. home is currently vacant: 1 in 35

-- Rank of this among the highest recorded vacancy rates in U.S. history: 1

-- Minimum number of extraordinary renditions that the United States has made since 2006: 200

-- Average word count of top-ten songs during the 1960s: 176

-- Average in 2007: 436

-- Weeks apart that a pair of twins in India were born this year: 6

* Sleeping Around Craigslist: Two middle-aged women discover that casual sex can be anything but casual.

* Daniel Johnston plays Living Life live in a Philly radio station.

* "Art is science made clear." -- Jean Cocteau