Two little girls came to our house, one dressed as Glinda, the other as Elphaba.

I remember reading that in about 1993, getting to the last few pages and thinking "Wow, this has been just *bleak*" … and then reading the last page and bursting into tears at the beauty.

I'll have to check that out … I like Lettuce a lot.

I wasn't about to respond until it was locked up. :-)

It is indeed a meteor game … but whoever's playing Texas is my second favorite team on any given day.

That's an awesome suggestion, and thanks for sharing your list … it'll make it easy for me to start.

I agree that someone needs to write that book. If you do, I hope you will discuss "The Glass Teat". Looking back from 40 years on, I now recognize that reading those two collections in college ultimately had a profound impact on the way I see media, politics, and the modern world.

Oh awesome! Glad to be wrong!

Reminds me of this (which isn’t real, but still funny):

Haha … I was thinking of the exact same video!

… for some kinds of businesses.

And also: if it gets really crowded, you can have about 50 people packed into the space that would usually be taken up by a car (including the buffer space around it) … and those people weigh *way* more than the car. A crowd on a bridge can take the bridge beyond its design load.