- Bookslut reports that both candy and writing groups are weathering the recession well. One is almost tempted to find parallels between those two…
- People continue to try to make Garfield funny. It doesn’t work, but this is amusing. I’ve always been a sucker for a bad translation. [via]
- The Peekaboo Paradox: a surprisingly very interesting story about a $100,000-a-year clown. [via]
- And at the complete opposite end of the spectrum, a truly horrific yet powerful article on infant deaths in hot cars, looking at how it happens and why, even to good parents. A brutal read — I imagine even more so for anyone with kids. [via]
- And just so I don’t leave you on a down note, here’s 40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes.
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I really should not have read that babies-in-cars article at work. It’s damned near impossible not to cry while reading it. (And, man, I find it all too easy to believe. The human brain is capable of some spectacularly disastrous random glitches, a fact we ignore at our peril.)
Maybe the trick to recession-proofing a writing career, then, is to write about people in writing groups eating jujubes.