Betty White is going to be on SNL afterall.

For those of you not following: after her Snickers commercial during the Superbowl, everyone decided Betty White was awesome (where were you 20 years ago? 30? 50?). Let’s be clear: I just found a video of Betty White calling Palin a crazy bitch, from 2 years ago. There is no question she is awesome.

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I mean to post this last week, but got busy (distracted). In the last week, 5 different people have pointed me to this story, which can only mean I’m known for my love of human breast milk.

It’s true. As I’ve said 100 times: why can we drink cow’s milk but not human milk?

Stupid.

Here are the links I got sent. The gist is that a cook in NYC is using his wife’s breast milk to make cheese, served in his restaurant.
grubstreet
ny post
sf gate

More interesting is when I was sent the links:
#1: March 3rd. (Friend, email, grubstreet.)
#2: March 3rd. (Friend, email, grubstreet.)
#3: March 9th, morning. (My sister, in email, ny post.)
#4: March 9th, lunchtime. (Friend, IM, ny post.)
#5: March 9th, afternoon. (My boss, in IM, sf gate.)

I’m interested in the story. The way I figure it, I’m known for the following online:

1. hating Jason Mraz
2. breast milk cheese
3. jo into a tornado
4. the golden girls (as applied to #3 on the list)

It’s a sad list, but one I can live with in terms of Internet infamy. Kinda. You don’t pick what you are known for, the Internet picks you.

Except not really, I’m not an idiot.

But I’m pretty amused at how the story has spread and who/when has contacted me to share it. Almost a full week passed from the initial email to today. Kinda odd.

As a p.s.: 15 facts about breasts. They do compare cow’s milk to human (on slide 6). And we win! So why aren’t we drinking this stuff?

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It’s raining. Something about a steady rain always makes me contemplative, as though it helps me feel some connectedness to the greater world, the world outside these walls and out across the valley down the river to the sea, or perhaps to the world within this skull.

I write in my head too often, with a cycle of idea, composition, review that leaves me with something firm in my head. Only, I too often fail to get it down. On the computer. In a notebook. On the back a receipt, even.

So instead, all I am left with are fragmentary ghosts. And those, too, are fleeting, leaving only the troubled nagging feeling one associates with thinking you may have left the oven on. Or was it the stove. The iron? Ah, such is the construct of the less-than-perfectly-regimented life.

But then, really, how good are the ideas that stem from the perfectly regimented life?

Hmm. I think it’s stopped raining. For the moment.

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Professor Green – Need You Tonight

My new contender for the first song of the summer this year — you have to hear it and then once more. And then have a drink, blaring it from the window.

DJ Zinc and Ms Dynamite – Wile Out

It’s exactly what you’d expect from these teaming up. It’s not epic, but a solid head-bopper, some nice rap over Zinc’s rolling basslines.

Wiley – Your Woman

Remember 1998? Now realize that Wiley has done a cover of White Town’s one hit. This is video; I threw the Herve mix below (which is the one I prefer — how can you go wrong with White Town covered by Wiley remixed be Herve?)

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The best opening bit of a book that has not been written.

You might disagree. Opening lines are hard. I read recently to start a novel the chapter after you think it should start.* Recent criticism of my newest novel confirms this.

I still like the opening. I’d read more if it existed.

* Sarah Waters, rule 2. All of these are worth reading though; I’d say from personal experience that 70% are true.

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How is it that that only place I’ve seen mention that Obama renewed the Patriot Act for another year is on metafilter?

Regardless, I thought you’d want to know that Big Brother is still watching.

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200 things you should see/watch/experience online (aka youshouldhaveseenthis.com). And once you have, for the love of it all, logoff and go do something useful with your life.

First 100
Second 100

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