A wink and a smile — Vintagraph with vintage strangeness in a theatre poster. You say tomato, I say agricultural disaster — The perils of the intersection between modern distribution and home gardening. (Snurched from Scrivener's Error .) Like the fist of an angry god — Weirdness at the rings of Saturn. Bircher/Truther/Birther — More on the conservative idiocy that is birtherism, from The Edge of the American West . ?otD: Who killed Cock Robin? Why? Show your work. 8/10/2009 Body movement: n/a (conventioneering) This morning's weigh-in: n/a (traveling) Currently reading: Eight Skilled Gentlemen by Barry Hughart Originally published at jlake.com .