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28 May 2004
assorted reading
David Grann's piece on squid hunting in The New Yorker is what kept me from going to sleep. Not that I was disturbed by thoughts of giant squid; on the contrary, I love reading about this kind of thing (Jacques Cousteau's Octopus and Squid was one of my favorite books as a child), and so I didn't want to wait until morning to finish the article.
On deciding whether or not to get a dog--and if so, what kind: a good, realistic piece by Jon Katz on Slate.
I'll not trouble you with the administrative law reading du jour...
These sorts of statistics always stun me: one in every seventy-five American men is in prison. Astonishing.
I read Clotilde Dusoulier's excellent blog, Chocolate & Zucchini, every day. It's so well put together that I look forward to it. I's nice to have this little connection to Paris, too.
snopes.com is a great place to check out those beware-of-this! email we all receive some time. (The most recent one that came across the wires was an alert that the Swiffer web floor treatment could be toxic to dogs. Not so, it seems.
The passing of another major publishing figure: Roger Straus (of Farrar, Straus & Giroux) has died.