In trying to track down information on whether the Seattle Lusty Lady (they don’t have a useful home page, or I’d link to it) was going to be closing, I ran across this mention that the SF Lusty had been acquired by an employee co-op, rescuing it from closing. According to an earlier report, there were no plans to close the Seattle branch.

Salzburg’s mayor is embarrassed over a new statue unveiled on the eve of a visit from Prince Charles. The photo on the BBC page is discreet but does convey the essentials, if not the full enormity.

That makes today’s bonus phrase “two-foot erection.”

Apparently a French 75 is made with gin, while a French 125 is made with brandy. Both involve champagne, ice, sugar and lemon. Your alcohol research fact for the day.

A flash kitty. This one doesn’t bite, or at least I couldn’t make it bite.

Do you want to write a book? Sure, we all do! Here are a few suggestions for topics that are currently not covered well in the world of books that are actually in print (updated as I think of stuff):

Boat and RV upholstery projects

Good tattoo ideas, including the meaning of mysterious symbols and characters

Phrasebooks and foreign language dictionaries aimed at eating in restaurants (see Chowhound’s translation card, we need more of this!)

Baby names in Vietnamese: specifically, American names with their meanings explained in Vietnamese.

Heeey, Nazis hate American libraries!

Northwestern U. has a lovely archive of US WWII posters. My other favorite source for such lovelies is the National Archives collection Powers of Persuasion.

A wonderful archive of historic home-ec books! *Swoon*

Things that it would be nice to have growing in my garden, if I had a garden:

mint

rosemary

basil

thyme

strawberries

lavender

coriander

flowers

Further searches have come up empty for Bob Newhart slash, but there is Starsky & Hutch slash, f’r chrissakes. And much, much more. I also feel like I should have mentioned the likely pairing of Howard/Jerry, which plays on the frequently seen theme of apparent antagonists secretly yearning for one another. The Spock/McCoy, if you will.