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An Awkward Moment

Thursday mornings, I take Mary to the high school early, because it's her day to open up the building and make sure everything's in place for the day. As a general rule, I don't pick up hitchhikers when I've got her or my daughter in the car, but walking slowly backward along Route 7, going the opposite way in the rain, there was a hitchhiker, and I determined that if he was still there on the way back, I'd give him a ride.

And he was. He hopped in and said that he was only going five miles down the road, which was perfect, because that's where I was turning off toward the east. Anyway, he was happy to be out of the rain, and we started exchanging pleasantries, when over the radio came The Doors' "Riders on the Storm." I didn't want to change it, because that would acknowledge that I'd noticed it, but we drove along in silence the last few miles.

I dropped him off. He said thanks, and then, "Well, that was awkward," and we both laughed.

So, I'm wondering: "His brain is squirming like a toad"--laughably over the top or genius? Othello reference? You make the call.

Speaking of squirmy toads, or possibly pupfish, Strauss-Kahn has resigned from the IMF. Unlike the sadness of mere mortals, his is infinite. Police in NYC are trying to figure out why Sofitel waited an hour after the maid reported the alleged assault before contacting them. It appears that, apart from leaving his cell phone in his suite, he left without checking out and immediately hailed a Yellow Cab.

This is what happens when someone's out of his rapey comfort zone, I guess.

Les americains . . . why do they not simply send forth a posse of thirsting-blood cowboys for to string up the puissant Frenchman, eh? It is for this we make welcome Ira Einhorn during all these years?

Regular readers of this blog know that I'm viciously anti-mime, so it will come as no surprise that I think it's a very bad idea for our government to fund a mime troupe in San Francisco. On the other hand, I have it on good authority that their silent performance of The Village People's "Macho Man" is worth the price of admission, if you happen not to be a hater.

A court in Stockholm is due today to hear a case in which the Planet Earth, represented by the Lorax, brings a case against Humanity alleging a wide variety of tortious offenses, represented by Nobody of Good Conscience and Associates.

Via Maetenloch at Ace's, a bunch of hot fat chicks.

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