Pimpery

[muckefuck]

• currawong is asking for your favourite "totally inane or insipid lyrics". Go ahead an tell him! But you can't have the chorus to Blur's "Girls and boys", since I already dibbed it! Ha ha ha ha haha! Ha ha ha ha ha!
• I hesitate to do this, since it backfired so miserably the last time, but I can't restrain myself from promoting mollpeartree's timely and fascinating review of Robert Baer's Sleeping with the devil. Very little snarkiness (she's not angry, just terribly disappointed in him), but lots of disdain for the institutional culture of the CIA (and some for those who champion them, especially when driven by political expedience).
• gopower beat me to the punch with a review of the new Asian market near me. As I was telling monshu last night after my third trip there in a week's time, they seem to realise that they won't survive at that location without non-Asian customers so they've done everything possible to appeal to them: It's clean (none of the strong smells of the typical Argyle St. market), everything's labelled in English, and, strangest of all, the employees will come up to you and offer to help you find things--in fluent English even! (I think they may be Hong Kongese, since the language they use among themselves is Cantonese.)