Above: a gaggle of geese grounded in the late September rains, Richmond, Virginia, 2010.

Below, for your weekend reading pleasure:

• Interview with Thomas Ligotti
  • Janette Hospital: News from a different MFA planet
    • Seth Abramson’s response to Janette Hospital
      • About the new Gourmet Magazine iPad …

Workout Haiku

by Kendall Giles

Exercise is freedom,

Distilled into a bludgeon,

An azure kettlebell.

Here are some links for your weekend reading pleasure.

• how to do (almost) everything with a Kindle 3
• self defense with an umbrella
• short stories for a good cause–unicorn pegasus kitten–with Wil Wheaton!
• some security topics