Friday Fun Fest

It's the end of the week, I'm taking a "personal day" off from work, and fall has finally arrived in the nation's capital.  This isn't exactly the kind of hard-hitting, substantive content I want to provide, but sometimes you have to go with what's available...

First off, a fond childhood memory that is now being co-opted by yet another car company...

Seeing as I am either a coffee achiever or a malt and barley achiever, I was excited to find evidence (aside from a snippet in Gray Matter's otherwise sub-par "Caffeine Blues") that the National Coffee Association did once run national advertising.

Next, with a hat-tip to "Scatter o' Light," is one of the unintentionally funniest stories I've read in some time -- the martial arts nuns. Seriously, if the Roman Catholic Church were still in a major evangelizing / missionary expansion mode, they would commission their own movie with the nuns defeating heathen Shaolin monks (but sparing their lives) to prove that Christ's love conquers all.

Finally, since we're headed into the one weekend every year when women claim to have an excuse to dress like trollops (as opposed to those doing it because they think it's actually attractive and positive), today's LA Times op-ed/humor column by Joel Klein is right on the mark. Put "SlutFest 2008" on the calendar for next August, people, and let Halloween be creative and original instead of pornoriffic. (And no, this isn't a "family friendly" rant -- this is about standards of common decency in public behavior. Thpppppt.)