Year-end random thoughts

Ideal name for a cat: 'Dr. No'

Ideal name for a chihuahua: 'Stalin'

Subtle anti-obesity strategy: change the question 'Do you wanna go large?' at fast-food hell-holes to 'Do you wanna become large?'

Unintentionally funny name for a book: 'Scouting for Boys' by Baden Powell

My ideal song to bring in the new year: '007 (Shanty Town)', by Desmond Dekker

Reading: interesting essay by Tariq Ali about Pervez Musharraf in the London Review of Books

New year's eve plan: headin' South with the Cistern Kid & the iPOD Perv, then catching Roy Ayers peforming on New Year's day at the Jazz Cafe

Still editing/rewriting: poetry of course