1. Top thick slices of country bread with fresh goat cheese. Sprinkle with herbs and bake until crusty; serve to everyone but Jeff.

Fourteen passive-aggressive appetizers from the New Yorker via kottke

linking to the new yorker probably makes me bourgeoisie-aspirational.  w/e.

NYS DMV ballpoint pen vending machines.

via Martha Stewart’s Blog

Eddie Gaedel’s (right, batting) Wikipedia entry is not to be missed.  0 career at bats, 0/0 batting average, 1 BB, 1.000 on base percentage.

Steve Schofield takes pictures of people in costume. Seems trite, but stick with it.

“I’m not here to make friends”

I was also getting fonder and fonder of Lou Reed’s Transformer. My prog friends thought Lou Reed was a joke. [...] They would say “Do you like this because it’s funny that he can’t sing?” and I’d say, “No, that’s not it,” and they’d say, “Well it has to be, there’s no good guitar,” and I said, “It’s different from that.”

John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats in a 2004 interview w/ The Believer

from The Book of Accidents (1831) via Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

The Dodgers became the fifth team in modern major league history to win without getting a hit.

Box score and Recap from ESPN

via SportsFilter