An almost-Valentine's Day photo

I know this is from Halloween (and 2010 at that) but I dug it up when Frank needed another couples' photo for the Radio FOD Photo Corner. I dig it.

Hanging with the reptiles at the Cape May County Zoo Educational Center

Frank and I went to Cape May, NJ, this past weekend to visit friend Cindy and Jim. They’re planning to sell their house and move back to Montana or somewhere like it this coming spring. Cindy’s been a volunteer at the Cape May County Zoo for several years and gave us a tour of the Educational Center. We didn’t have time for a proper tour of the zoo, but this was very interesting. It was especially sweet to see the relationship Cindy has with “the critters” and how much of a friendship one can have with a lizard.

Author of 'How Not to Look Old' dies at 58

The headline wrote itself, and while it's sad that she passed away, it's one of the few instances I'd consider ironic.

From CBS News:

(AP) NEW YORK — Charla Krupp, a popular author and commentator on fashion and beauty whose best-sellers included "How Not to Look Old" and "How to Never Look Fat Again," has died at age 58.

Krupp's husband, Richard Zoglin, said she died Monday of breast cancer at their home in Manhattan.

Krupp made numerous television appearances over the years. According to her publisher, the Hachette Book Group, she was on NBC's "Today" show more than 100 times and was featured on Oprah Winfrey's syndicated talk program and on ABC's "Good Morning America" and "The View."

As entertainment editor for Glamour magazine, she interviewed Meryl Streep, Madonna and other celebrities. She also wrote for Time magazine, USA Today, Town & Country and many other publications and had a second run at Glamour as beauty editor.

Her husband called her "a pioneering journalist, a champion of women and an amazing life force."

Judge uses Bob Marley to illustrate dangerous hairstyles

Is that a knife in your dreads or are you just happy to see me?

From ABA Journal:

The federal appeals judge who pictured an ostrich in an opinion has turned to photography again, this time in a decision on a prisoner’s suit over shorn dreadlocks.

“Dreadlocks can attain a formidable length and density,” the Jan. 13 opinion (PDF) says. A photo of the late reggae musician Bob Marley is included to illusthttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifrate. The author is Judge Richard Posner of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who pictured an ostrich and a person with his head in the sand in a November opinion criticizing lawyers who ignore precedent.

The new opinion allows the claim of an Illinois inmate who alleged prison authorities violated his free exercise rights by requiring him to cut his hair. He claimed prison officials allowed Rastafarians to wear long hair, but not members of the his religion, the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem.

“One can see why prison officials might fear that a shank or other contraband could be concealed in an inmate’s dreadlocks,” Posner writes

Shit two-dimensional stereotypical New Yorkers say

Can we now declare the "shit so-and-sos say" meme dead and buried? It was fun once and only once. Okay, maybe twice, but as a ticket to fame it's been punched. This one is supposedly about what New Yorkers say. Some of it yes (only had a bagel, was here on 9/11, Law & Order) but much of it is too clever by far and reduces people who live here to a list of cliches. Now let's move on.

Happy 69th birthday Janis Joplin

I made this clip in 2010, on the 40th anniversary of Joplin's death. She would have been 69 today.