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 …

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

Here’s a preview of an upcoming documentary on Bartitsu, the art highlighted by Sherlock Holmes and one of the first mixed martial arts:

This documentary is sponsored by Tony Wolf and the Bartitsu Society, and includes lots of great footage, including the earliest footage of jujutsu.

Bartitsu was …