Stuff I read at work today...

[alexiscartwheel]

Bears eat two workers in remote Russian region. Yes, that's a real headline.

What not to name your children: Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii. Some people don't seem to see the line between a unique and creative name and plain old cruelty.

TV at the pump is here. Apparently, if you are bombarded with ads while pumping your gas, you're more likely to spend money on a car wash or a chocolate bar. What will they think of next?

The NYT Arts section loves Brideshead Revisited this week. A new
film version opens tomorrow, yielding inevitable comparisons with the 80s
miniseries. From what I've read, it seems like the new film has some significant changes to the narrative, so I'm definitely curious to see how it turns out.

Comments

[lib-chick42.livejournal.com]

"reports that a jeep had been sent to the region to finish the bears off" -- a JEEP is going to finish off THIRTY bears?? Where do they get this?

And, re: Talula... I totally thought they were mocking the first word of that child's name in the headline. How sad that they weren't. And who let the people who are her parents reproduce if they make decisions like that?

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Hopefully the Jeep has some men with guns inside of it. Or maybe it's one of those living Jeeps. They like to feed on bears. (This story just makes me think of Steven Colbert's assertion that bears are destroying America.)

No, see, Talula by itself fits perfectly into that category of creative, more unusual names for your children. Number 16 Bus Shelter, not so much.