"But Mr. Robert Montgomery's readers must take such grammar as they can get, and be thankful."

[larryhammer]

It's not like you can always count on Röyksopp for live-action Space Invaders goodness, but it's nice to know they're there in a pinch.

Sometimes.

These links, otoh, aren't all so low-flying:

• Phoenix as she once was. (via)
  
  
• In re: children and how to raise them, we have teaching a child how to argue improves family harmony, and an open letter to KRXQ Sacramento from an accepting father of a non-conforming ten year old boy. (via & via)
  
  
• The Footbinding Dilemma, or "there's a reason you see so many females in movies as kick butt, kung fu hotties."
  
  
• Why ants survive in microwave ovens. Maybe -- read the followup as well. (via)
  
  
• Report on current thinking about how life could have come into existence by natural processes. (via)
  
  
• Study on same-sex sexual behaviors in animals finds they've pretty much all gots gays, every single species. (via)

And I leave you with this lovely bit of Macauley taking down a bad poet:

His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colors in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations, have made, and will again make, good poetry.

Criticism worthy of Housman, that.

---L.