19 January 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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Ceasefire called in Gaza; death toll rises to 1,300--a third of whom are children.
As long as Hamas holds to the ceasefire, says Israel, we'll pull troops from Gaza before Obama's inauguration.
"I think a weekly magazine is a standing dinner date...Sometimes they're the most delightful person in the world, sometimes they get drunk and throw up on you."
I call my wife and tell her I'm going to sleep at the lab. She reminds me that she left me a week ago. Noah Baumbach on the science of wine.
Todd Levin's guide to choosing wine: "Red, White, and You."
Drinking to Bush's failures guarantees a long drunk, an even longer hangover.
It is a time for renewal. Reincarnation without death. A pilgrimage to Washington is taking place, with politics as the civil religion.
The site "44 Presidents Coming" is exactly what it sounds like.
A collection of presidential inauguration videos, from McKinley on down.
In absence of a theory of consciousness, bees come close with selfhood, bureaucracy, navigation.
All activists struggle in Russia--not least the eco-champions trying to keep Russian industry in check.
Living on an equatorial Atlantic island, the Italian consul experiments with chocolate after finding solace with Márquez.
Finding a parrot in Brooklyn, last year in Octopus Pie.
