AMOROUS EPHEMERA

• London Andrews cov­ered in blue cup­cake cream

AURAL LIFE

• Brian May inter­view in the Guardian

BIG ATHLETICA

• My fan­tasy foot­ball impulses are out of con­trol this year. As usual, I’m over­see­ing my own league, but I’ve also joined one run by some swell fel­lows at the con­ser­v­a­tive blog, Real Debate Wisconsin, and still another run by anti-drug war jour­nal­ist par excel­lence, Radley Balko. And…there’s still plenty of spots avail­able in my NFL pick ‘em league, which entails scant knowl­edge of foot­ball. It’s free and easy.

• The audac­ity of ten­nis fans – clearly a rogue bunch of mis­cre­ant dirt­bags and retired insur­ance actu­ar­ies.

BACK HOME ON THE FARM

• Portrait of a Wisconsin cheesemaker

BIG HYGIENE & WELLNESS

• Sick Lit, done right

DEEP-FRIED DYSTOPIA

• 6 global warm­ing skep­tics who did a 180

• Fred Siegel: “Like the Tory Radicals, today’s lib­eral gen­try see the untamed mid­dle classes as the true enemy…”

• Is that a tumor in your pants, or are you just over­come by the excite­ment of martyrdom?

• The unmit­i­gated awful­ness of Obamacare has only just begun

• Vlad Putin has a way with words. Of peace­ful pro­test­ers, he recently said “…you will be beaten on your skull with a trun­cheon. And that’s that.”

ESOTERIC SENTIENCE

• Frank Wilson weighs in on Philadelphia’s silly blog­ger licens­ing fee

• The black heart of Facebook’s sum­mer lies

LOCAL

• Insane, ema­ci­ated Oregon do-gooder sprays fat piles of rec­ti­tude on Missouri college

WHAT MY FRIENDS, ACQUAINTENCES, ALLIES and VIRTUAL PEEPS ARE DOING

• Pal Nick is cam­paign­ing to change Aaron Rodgers’ nick­name from “A-Rod” (or “A-Rodge”) to “Ace.”

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