SRSLY, New York Times?

It's a slow day at work, I have a prescription for antibiotics, and a man-pooch is the new hipster accessory. That is all.

Things I am learning about True Blood that IMDb is teaching me

• There is no way the actress who plays Jessica is not a natural redhead. I refuse to believe it.
• Arlene is married to the guy who plays Benjamin Linus on Lost.
• The guy who plays Eric, Alexander Skarsgard, is five-time winner of the title sexiest man in Sweden. He's also the son of the guy who played Bootstrap Bill in Pirates of the Caribbean.
• Sam went to Brown. Detective Bellefleur went to Yale and recently played a character whose last name is Dempsey. Coincidence? Probably.
  

I may have a problem.

John Hughes died and I am sad

Sadder than I have any right to be, given that The Breakfast Club came out the year before I was born. Nostalgia is a funny beast.

Capitalism is Evil

Sell us as much of your time as you can manage, hopefully you'll have enough left over so that you can get a semi-adequate amount of sleep and pretend to be a human being once a while or on the weekends and still be able to eat. Oh, yes, do this for years and you will earn increasing amounts of money but by that time you will be insane and old and nothing you can do with that money will be as fun because you are all creaky and probably have kids anyway who need that money to go to college and buy crack.

Can you tell that job-searching makes me angsty?

If all the knowledge in the world is contained within High Fidelity and Office Space

...does that mean I'm destined to be either a disaffected and directionless thirty-something making shit money in a record shop or a disaffected and directionless thirty-something making shit money as a cubicle monkey?

These are the things I worry about.

I like my bike

...as much as I like my hammer pants, performativity and banana vanilla yogurt. Unfortunately with my small powerless T-rex arms it has proven very difficult to remove from the car.

Guerilla composting

I walked almost a mile today with a bag of eggshells, coffee grounds and rotting lemon rinds, just so I could put our compost in an actual compost bin instead of getting fed up and throwing it into the trash like we usually do. Score one for nature! (And minus one for my dignity?)