Read New Yorker on the airplane to San Diego. Did you see the cartoon about two guys in the bar, the one where the husband and the wife are sitting on the couch and one says something to the other, the defendant before the judge, the prisoners chained to the wall, the man and the woman in the restaurant breaking up? I'd like to see an issue in which none of the cartoons are based on cartoon stereotypes. The equivalent in the New Yorker poems is the poem with too many similes. Similes should be outlawed, unless your name is Homer or John Ashbery or Chris Stroffolino. They are a sign of laziness in most cases.

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Tomorrow will make six months of blogging.