Mama still don’t feel so good, chillun. Go outside and play:
• Were it not for this enterprising gentleman, thousands of men in my little Dusty Corner would have nothing to wear with their beartooth and rifle-cartridge bolo ties. Ah, fashion…
• I’ve been surprisingly cheered and comforted by several cancer blogs I’ve tripped over recently, including one by Nightline and NPR correspondent Leroy Sievers, whose obituary was posted in the LATimes. His NPR blog, My Cancer, had the kind of tough writing and perspective you’d expect from a man who spent time in some of the modern age’s most dangerous places. Other excellent examples abound, but for me the mother lode of all cancer blogs still has to be Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Cancer, chronicling the unique and upbeat cancer journey of the still-very-much-alive-thank-you Carr. Her good news is that some cancers can eventually be downgraded to merely chronic conditions — and who doesn’t have one of those?
• Has your Ivy League education robbed you — like William Deresiewicz in The American Scholar — of the ability to converse with your plumber? (Hel-lo?) Rachel Toor admits that where you go to college can determine what you become: “Some of us become jerks. And others spend our lives trying to figure out what it meant to have been there — and how to get over it.” (Via Arts & Letters Daily.) Anybody else out there still trying to recover from your college education?
• My fellow WordPressers may have already discovered this gem on their Dashboard pages, but Where is Bob? brings new meaning and insight into one of the lower circles of cubicle hell. A group of university IT-ers has a beloved boss replaced by an absolute nincompoop. The man’s clueless-ness is staggering, and the post on Bob’s Other Job is particularly priceless. How WILL it end?