this is why I like the Olympics, where the players on the team you root for are at least usually from that place

There's too much training abroad and wangling citizenship in a country with a smaller talent pool I like to root for Jamaicans in general, but I have a softer spot for Jamaicans that live and train in Jamaica (uh, says the woman who hasn't lived there in a gazillion years).

On the flip side, I have to admit, I was claiming Ben Johnson for a while. But I'd have tossed him if he'd been running under my flag anyway.

Jamaicans will claim their own far and wide. We're grabby like that. But Usain Bolt will be closer to the nation's heart.

I'm listening to an MP3 of Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock." I love this poem so much.

In the room, the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo.

I hear the mermaids singing, each to each
I do not think that they will sing for me

Aw, I adore Prufrock. It's gorgeous, and so much fun to pick apart.

Star Trekkin' across the universe / On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk / Star Trekkin' across the universe / Only going forward, still can't find reverse.

That's what's in my head.

Quick poll:

URL: earl, or ewe-arr-ell? If the latter, how wrong is the former?

ewe-arr-ell

If the latter, how wrong is the former?

In my head, "earl" is wrong. So wrong, I was truly confused by it for a few seconds trying to decipher the meaning.

latter. wrong enough I'd think you were talking about a person.

Very wrong. I think I have heard "ew-errl." But really, it's three letters. Spell it out.

Wikipedia says it can be pronounced as an acronym or an initialism, like FAQ.

I meant to share my Sign of the Apocolypse earlier - while in Lord & Taylor today, I saw for sale......SNUGGIES!! AT LORD & FUCKIN TAYLOR!!! Good God Y'all.