Mason Lerner wrote an interesting and sad but true article on pro sports called The Dirty Secret and the Double Standard. I don’t know a single person who wasn’t outraged by Vick, so why don’t we have the same outrage for our fellow man? Why is it in movies that the pet dying will make me cry more than people dying?

And now that you’re depressed and philosophical, if you haven’t been to Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, you are missing out on one of the joys of the internet. My favorite thing they do is a cover thrashing, where they take the most hideous covers of romance gone by and caption them. Do not drink liquid while you read. You will spit it out.

And for those of you who also dig Urban Fantasy novels, here’s a cover montage from SciFiGuy that shows how the cover artists for this fine genre… may need some new ideas. I like covers, though, even the uber-generic ones. That’s one of the few things that makes me sad about my Kindle (otherwise its PERFECT) is that the books rarely have covers, and on the list that you scroll through, there’s only titles and authors to help you figure out what you want to read next. I didn’t realize how much I relied on covers to help me remember a book until I no longer had them.

Day 25 Paleo going strong! I’ve lost a chunk of weight and I’m really excited about it (not that I was like fat before or anything, but I’m heading towards thin!). I’m going to have to make a big decision after the month is over to keep it up or to get off my ass and excercise, ’cause dang… I’m under 150 for the first time in like ten years (OK, daily fluctuation between 148.5 and 151, but in the morning before I eat but after I pee, it is consistently 14something, and I have hope that in the week I have left, it’ll be ALWAYS under 150) and I am so determined to keep it there.  Wish me luck!