Weird

Even though I've never read Blender, much less paid for 12 monthly issues, I am now a subscriber. I'm a bit at a loss how this happened. A few possible scenarios:

1. A friend or family member thought this would make a great gift. The problem with that scenario is my friends and family members are perpetually broke
2. My wife decided there aren't enough photos of scantily clad 19 year old starlets around the house
3. Some intern came across my byline somewhere online and somehow mistook me for a person of tastemaking influence
4. Bender decided to trump Paste's pay-what-you-want deal and are now signing up random people for subscriptions

OK, I'm starting this blog a few days after the original inspiration, so I have to backdate it a bit.

These are from Thursday:

• Dead cat that I thought was a raccoon before I got close enough to see that it was a cat


• A guy getting his boat--the "Coronation II"--towed away (the trailer had a flat)


• A discarded book lying in the middle of the sidewalk, entitled "What You Need to Know About Sexual Compulsion"