—Question.  Any of you ever buy one of those mike’s hard lemonade variety packs—the kind with mike’s hard cranberry and mike’s hard lime and mike’s hard apple and the traditional mike’s hard lemonade?  Because that’s what a certain land lobster did this afternoon, stopping by the liquor store with my credit card and a fake ID to pick himself up a pair of twelve packs, which he enjoyed with a

1.  Thanks so much to David Parish for the Requiem for a Heavyweight DVD.  Been meaning to watch this one for years but had forgotten about it until my recent “Twilight Zone” and “Night Gallery” marathons reminded me Serling had written other things, as well. 2.  Stalwart conservative Andrew Sullivan finds “persuasive” (and, remarkably, new!) the Alex Jones video purporting to discredit the official version of events surrounding the Cheney

Well, for one thing, you take some time away from the computer.  —Not that walking through the rain and the snow isn’t also a sacrifice—it’s just that, well, it’s sunny and mid-eighties here, and I’ve already made it through a pitcher of lime daiquiries.  So that ain’t gonna wash.