I.H.O.P. holiday offerings on Flickr.
Eggnog pancakes, pumpkin praline pancakes and white chocolate mint pancakes? Seriously?
We must walk the camino together
A modern description of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, including such details as walkie-talkies, G.P.S.es (Girl Proposing Sex), taxis and Wonder Bread.
This could easily happen in my life. Could it happen in yours?
Small-town gossip has found a niche on the Internet
For anyone who romanticises rural life, remember that whenever you participate in rural life, everything you do will be remembered and discussed for years.
The rule against perpetuities comes from some strange attempts at trusts
Lapham’s Quarterly has a description of Ben Franklin’s trusts, Peter Thellusson’s trust and the catastrophic trust attempted by Jonathan Holdeen that would have wrecked not only the U.S. economy, but the world economy.
New study shows that the most definite predictor of obesity is not smoking
Oh, come on. Is there nothing we can do right?
Penny Arcade — 14 September 2011, “Work Ethics”
The Onion — 8.4 million New Yorkers suddenly realise New York City is a horrible place to live
“3 million New Yorkers reportedly left the city because they realized the phrase ‘Only in New York’ is actually just a defense mechanism used to convince themselves that seeing a naked man take a shit on a park bench is somehow endearing, or part of some shared cultural experience.”
Office Space (1999)
Reblogged from pleatedjeans.
