The St. Louis Book Fair provides its wondrous bounty again this year:

• “Arcadia” and “The Real Thing” by Tom Stoppard
• “Collected Poems, 1953-1993” by John Updike
• “The Wild Party” by Joseph Moncure March and illustrated by Art Spiegelman
• Best American Poetry; ’89, ’92, ’97, ’15, ’16 and ’18
• Best American Short Stories; ’86, ’87, 09, ’14, ’16, ’18 and ’20
• And like 25 “Magic Tree House” books for my kids

Since I’m slowly amassing most of the Best American Short Stories collection (between 1986 and 2020 I’m missing four volumes), I saw several Best American Poetry books and thought I’d start a new quest.

Today I had a lunch at a diner and witnessed a man order his meal, and while waiting, open a single-serving plastic tub of jelly and eat it with a butterknife. Later, a woman who’d ordered coffee (small diner-sized mug) put in four (4) cups of creamer. People are fascinating.

As a one-time newspaper designer, I’m very curious about how this not only appeared twice in the obits today, but has different tracking between the two.

If you never hear from me again it’s because I massively overestimated my abilities. Which I guess applies to a lot of situations. But in this case specifically it’s because I’m going to attempt to run some ethernet.

Trying, at Mastodon State Historic Site in Missouri this morning.

(get a Trying patch)

Schmigadoon/Schmicago parodied ‘A Little Priest’ and it’s *chef’s kiss*. This is amazing.

Got the live-streaming bird feeder going again. Check it out:

NPR hasn’t used its main Twitter account since it was maliciously labeled “state-affiliated media”. It’s time everybody else joins them. Twitter needs you more than you need it.