Things we need to know

This photo is irrelevant to this post. I just wanted to add an image. It's time to share more fascinating headlines, lifted straight from a Very Trusted News Source. This time, I've separated them into categories by subject.

(Trumpet blast!)


First is the "doi" category:

Hasselbeck in discomfort after breaking wrist
Seattle Times 11/15/2010


Next are the "yay!" headlines:

New saddle-like airline seats would pack cabins more
Seattle Times 9/14/2010

Memphis teen shot in [rear end] over sagging pants
Seattle Times 10/6/2010


Thirdly, "the new femininity":

Gap-toothed women are in vogue
Seattle Times 10/19/2010

Montana woman fends off bear attack with zucchini
Seattle Times 9/24/2010

Woman stabs classmate at anger-management class at Bellevue College
Seattle Times 10/15/2010

"Last Supper" recreated in lint by Michigan woman
Seattle Times 1/15/2011

Moses Lake woman fleeing police runs over self
Seattle Times 1/26/2011


And finally, Advancements in Science:

Thinning ozone could be leaving whales sunburned
Seattle Times 11/10/2010

Scientists propose one-way trip to Mars
Seattle Times 11/15/2010

Chicken of the Sea

A couple days ago I was reading Fatal Forecast, by Michael J. Tougias (2007, Scribner) and a passage made me laugh out loud. Fatal Forecast is not a funny book. It's an account of lives lost and saved in a violent storm off the coast of Cape Cod, November 1980.

Following is the passage that got me. Speaking is a fishing boat captain:

"We were off the tip of Cape Cod when we were slammed by a rogue wave. We went up over the wave and were then in a free fall. When we landed, water poured in the pilothouse door and down into the fo'castle. The boat went over on its side. More water poured in the starboard-side windows. The next thing I know, there's a fire in the light fixture. Without thinking, I reached up and the electricity blew me across the pilothouse. We were able to get the fire out, and somehow get into Provincetown without issuing a Mayday. All the electronics were gone on the boat. That's when I knew for sure that I had to get a bigger boat..."

I added the italics.

As someone who edits, as someone who suffers seasickness, and as a cowardly, skulking wuss, I would like to offer three options to that last sentence.

"That's when I knew for sure that I had to go get a job in a hardware store."

"That's when I knew for sure that I had to go back to college and get my MBA."

"That's when I knew for sure that I had to take up pig farming in Iowa."

Frost on things

This morning I was the first awake (not unusual) and everything looked very cold and pretty outside, so I stepped out and played with the camera. I wasn't wearing socks, though, so I didn't play long.