Two news items jump out today:

As you know, pudus think dik-diks are just ridiculously flirty and needy.  Here’s one that apparently took a couple of acting classes and decided to get some headshots.

Pretty damn good headshot, actually.  Veronica Lake herself never quite managed that expression.

If there’s ever an all-ungulate production of L.A. Confidential, this dik-dik should be Kim Basinger.

Photo by Todd Gustafson, who is obviously some kind of freaking genius.

As you know, pudus think dik-diks are just ridiculously flirty and needy.  Here’s one that apparently took a couple of acting classes and decided to get some headshots.

Pretty damn good headshot, actually.  Veronica Lake herself never quite managed that expression.

If there’s ever an all-ungulate production of L.A. Confidential, this dik-dik should be Kim Basinger.

Photo by Todd Gustafson, who is obviously some kind of freaking genius.

The Village Voice has dropped This Modern World from its print edition.  This amazes me; when I lived in NY, TMW was one of the main reasons I bought the paper, and I can’t be alone in that.

(This was long before Tom Tomorrow and I became friends, btw.  That was a neat surprise.  We crossed paths while we were both covering the 2000 GOP convention, and I must have sounded like a pissed-off penguin, because five minutes later I was hired for the cartoons.  Life is weird.)

Anyhow, if you live in the NY area or subscribe to the Voice from elsewhere, here’s a petition to get TMW back in the Voice.  Care to help a brother out?

A 10-year-old Houston boy hung himself the other day, apparently imitating of what he saw on TV.

For the record, while the family is Guatemalan, he wasn