Y'all should be subscribing to the Harper's weekly news round up. Yes, it's a weekly email, but it's the only mailing list I subscribe to and actually read. Sorry, ACT Queer, I simply don't care about gay four wheel drive groups and lesbian speed dating. Anyhoozle, check this out.

At a convention center in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, a sparrow flew in through an open window and knocked over 23,000 dominoes. The sparrow cowered in a corner until it was shot and killed. Scientists found the gene that regulates fear in mice and created mice that are not afraid. In Chhattisgarh, India, a three-day-old baby died from an infection when her parents were unable to afford surgery. The baby had been born with her heart in her hand.

Is it a passage from one of them other-worldly Latin American writers like Borges or Gabriel Garcia Marquez? No, it's the world we live in, collected and paraphrased by the lovely people at Harper's.

As an aside, you know that little, unobtainable goal everyone has in their head, the benchmark you'll reach when you've Made It, like Homer and the Dallas Cowboys? For me it's getting something published in Harper's. I'm... a pretentious turd.