Breakfast Links: Ants, Mixtape Stories & Rating Wives
Ok, poor Texas. Remember back in the 80’s when Texas was going to be the first US stop for the northerly migrating killer bees? Oh, I guess they actually got there. Well, now guess what? They just imported some ants that love to eat their electronics. (via) The “crazy rasberry ants” stowed away on some ship and arrived in port awhile back, now they seem here to stay. They are immune to the normal ways one gets rid of ants, hell they eat those red fire ants - previously the baddest ants in town - and for whatever reason, they dig electronics. Seriously, read that article. These ants are nuts. Thank god I don’t live in Texas.
Hopefully, the ants don’t get the cassette decks down there. Cause we here at #commetns love our Mix Tapes. No muxtapes, yet, though. Still, we fully, fully approve of this site, Cassette From My Ex. Seems similar in content to Thurston’s Mix Tape book, but in blog form and more specificly targetted. Stories (and track lists and even more awesome they let you listen to the tapes online) of people and the mix tapes their ex’es gave them. Man, I know, I’m old and what not, but really, the kids today missed out on the whole mixtape thing - what with the intensity of making, labelling and decorating them. Ahhh, kids today.
You know what else kids today missed out on? Ranking their wives! Check out this marital rating scale from the 30’s put together by some marriage councilor. (via) Wives would get demerits for such terribleness as “Slow in coming to bed - delays till husband is asleep” and “Fails to sew on buttons or darn socks regularly.” Darn socks! But don’t worry, they can make up for those deficiencies by “React[ing] with pleasure and delight to marital congress” or if she “Praises marriage before you women contemplating it”. Husbands would get demerits for getting “Angry if newspaper is disarranged” and if he “Talks of efficiency of his stenographer or other women.” Crap, man, I talk about the efficiency of my lady friends all the time. Man, that so-and-so, hot DAMN is she efficient. Fortunately they get big merit points for being “Good Humored in the morning” and when they are “Polite and mannerly even when alone with his wife”. Even! Imagine that? Phahh.
BONUS LINK: Looks like Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse is set for Fox midseason. I’m not sure what season it will be in the middle of, presumably the fall season.
