h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Minor correction. It was in the Petty Hates thread that his name is being Baader-Meinhoffed about.

I just got a notification from Google Play that Ed Sheeran's is the album of the week and I should download it for 99¢.

Of course you should

Oh, and he's on TV right now too. (On a channel I'm not watching.) He's freaking ubiquitous!

There was one ghastly week in the 80s - remember it well... still recovering from it - when you couldn't turn the TV or the radio without the Thompson Twins being there

I just checked and was relieved to see that tomorrow nights episodes of Top Gear do not include the one where they put Ed Sheeran in their modestly priced car. I think I remember seeing him on the show once and expected BBCAmerica to rerun it this week the way things are going.

You may be about to get a reprieve. After all the hoopla about this story dies down of course http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/ed-sheeran-to-take-a-break-from-music-and-work-in-charity-shop-10468148.html

I actually hadn't heard anything about him since last week.


Until now.

Elie Weisel.

This morning, on mu way to a dog park, I was listening to The Moth stories on NPR and a fellow mentions Elie Weisel in comparison to the neighbor he and his wife had while on vacation. I didn't catch the whole story, but basically this old man was in the next beach house and he annoyed the narrator as he cleared his sinuses loudly or when he continually talked about his dead wife in every conversation regardless of context. He and his wife begin fighting over his obsession with this old man "HE'S not ruining our vacation, YOU are!" Later the man mentions that his wife died in Auschwitz. Of course! Auschwitz!
At this point the narrator mentions Elie Weisel. The story continues with the old man getting free drinks and meals from people sympathetic to his sad story. At this point, the narrator begins to suspect he's lying, sneaks onto the sleeping neighbor's patio and confirms his suspicions when finds no numbers tattooed on the neighbor's right forearm.

And then I arrived at the dog park and turned off the car so I don't know how the story ends.



Just now I noticed on twitter that Elie Weisel died today.



Lattice O' Coincidence.

Another weird one. I can confidently say that until maybe 90 minutes ago, I had NEVER heard of Gowanus, a neighborhood in Brooklyn.

I was watching a low-budget, artsy, independent film tonight about an improv group that gets a bit pulled apart when one of their members gets cast on "Weekend Live". The film is called _Don't Think Twice_ (Mike Berbiglia, Kate Micucci, Keenan-Micheal Peele). As the film begins their theatre is losing its lease and the improv cast is discussing neighborhoods they could move to and find a cheap theatre to rent. A joke[?] about Gowanus goes past my head. I take from context that it's a neighborhood in the area.

After the DVD ends, I pull up Reddit to scan a bit before bed, and come across this: "TIL the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NYC is so polluted that unidentifiable new forms of microbiological life have arisen in its sludge".


Gowanus is a particularly Baader-Meinhof type of word/place name.

Pannetone...


I can confidently say I'd never heard of this "Christmas baked good" until today. That was the clue for a nine letter word on this morning's crossword in the local paper (the other nine letter word with the same clue was fruitcake).



Just now as I checked my twitter feed I see another hootooer retweeted something that included pannetone.

"Rompers"


I was familiar with this particular women's one-piece garment, but had never heard it referred to as such, previously only associating it with childrens wear.

Until this week when it was made fun of on a sitcom and a late-night talkshow.



BG

I always thought it was a kids' thing. It's for adults too?

Apparently it was a thing for a while.

Sounds like the awful (and it's a good job I haven't had my morning shower yet because I'll feel unclean after I type this) pajamagram.com hoodie footie

Yeah, not that bad...


Well, I was going to say they weren't that bad. I pulled up a Google image search for "romper" and among all the images of women in stylish versions are images of MEN'S rompers.

Oh good grief