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David Beckham’s face appears on Jaffa Cake.

Today’s mullet haiku, courtesy of Mark Morford:

Oh you hot mama
In your white jeans and teased hair
Come see Ratt with me

Early 90s flashback time at east coast/west coast.

Get them while they’re hot: Jesus Inspirational Sport Statues. I think I’ll take the ballet one on page two. I hadn’t realized it was a sport.

I’m not writing much on the blog, as I have an icky sinus thing and the drugs are making me incoherent. Here are two recent posts on other blogs that I’ve enjoyed:

Choire

mr. trinity

Matthew Engel of The Guardian, on Fifty ways to love America.

I think I better plan my trip to Sicily soon. This might change it, and not necessarily for the better.

From the Times of London:

They have endured taunts from male colleagues and abuse from passengers, but the army of women drivers recruited by the London Underground have proved that they are better than men at making Tube trains run on time.

The number of women driving Tube trains has almost doubled in the past year, and managers believe that their influence has helped to end a culture of absenteeism and militancy in the workforce.

For the first time last month, London Underground recorded a week in which none of its 5,000 peak trains were cancelled because a driver had failed to turn up for work.

A letter by James made the NY Daily News’ Voice of the People section.