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“Jebediah has a secret  [...] that will send his people into space.” So begins the promotional copy of Amish Vampires In Space, and goes downhill from there. The intrepid can read some of it in the “Look Inside” link, though I don’t recommend it.

Biologist Timothy Mousseau, Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina, has been studying the lasting effects of radiation on the flora and fauna of Chernobyl, Ukraine.



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Nem é exclusividade apenas do jornalista gostar mais de estorias e portinhas escondidas. Muitos gostam de se sentirem especiais, de se aproveitar da falta de parâmetro dos outros, ainda mais se o lugar em questão ficar fora do circuito comercial, e difícil de ser checado pelos pobres mortais. Qualquer hora conto a história de um restaurante em São João da Boa Vista, com apenas quatro lugares, que já ganhou extensa matéria no Paladar, e não valeria a pena a ida nem que ficasse na esquina da sua casa.

Pois finalmente, após ouvir muitas indicações, fui conhecer a Grazie Napoli, pizzaria em Santo André, superestimada por tantos e outros.

Massa molenga no meio e pesada na borda, molho de tomate ácido e mussarela de búfala ordinária me recepcionaram.

Bosta de pizza.

Claro que pode ser que simplesmente o produto seja irregular, como tantos outros. Mas compreenda que não ando por aquelas bandas, e será um tanto difícil voltar, pra checar. Não tenho saco, dinheiro, saúde e nem tempo, pra isso.

Tô fora.

No mesmo estilo de pizza, a Leggera, em Perdizes, dá um banho de sabor, seriedade e profissionalismo. Passada a fase besta de atender apenas sob reserva, hoje abre de terça à sábado até as onze e pouco, ou até acabar a massa.

Lá eu volto.

Nessa semana também retornei à Castelões, onde fiz melancólico jantar, num salão vazio, SEM NENHUM CLIENTE.

O lugar tá cada vez mais decadente, jamais aceitará cartões, a carta de vinhos é ridícula, e por aí vai.

Mas a pizza continua, pro meu paladar, imbatível.

De lá continuarei freguês, enquanto tiver forças pra isso.

E não é nem pela tradição.

O que me move é a boa comida.

Tap dat ass Obama.

“‘What color?’ said Mr. Binks. ‘Bright yellow,’ said Mr. Bliss, ‘inside and out.’”

J.R.R. Tolkien firmly believed that there is no such thing as writing “for children” and yet, unbeknownst to most, he joined the ranks of famous authors of literature for grown-ups who wrote little-known children’s books — including Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein — and actually penned a book specifically for kids. He wrote Mr. Bliss (public library) for his own two children when they were small — much like the fairy tales E.E. Cummings wrote for his only daughter, Sylvia Plath’s verses for her kids, and the controversial story Faulkner penned for the daughter of the woman he’d later marry. Though it is unclear precisely when Tolkien created Mr. Bliss, the tale was inspired by his first car, which he purchased in 1932. It was published posthumously exactly fifty years later. Tolkien went on to use two of the character names from the book, Gaffer Gamgee and Boffin, in The Lord of the Rings.

The book, affectionately handwritten and illustrated by Tolkien himself — who, also unbeknownst to many, was a dedicated artist — tells the story of Mr. Bliss, a lovable eccentric known for his exceptionally tall hats and his “girabbits,” the giraffe-headed, rabbit-bodied creatures that live in his backyard. One day, Mr. Bliss decides to buy his very first motor car (and to my personal delight, as someone strongly partial to yellow, he proclaims to the salesman that he wants it to be “bright yellow, inside and out.”) But his first drive en route to a friend’s house soon turns into a Rube Goldberg machine of disaster as he collides with nearly everything imaginable, then gets kidnapped by three bears.

The ending, of course, is equal parts joyful and quirky.

As far as lesser-known children’s books by famous authors of “adult” literature go, Mr. Bliss is a winner. Complement it with Tolkien’s gorgeous art, then revisit some more fairly obscure children’s books by Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, Aldous Huxley, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Anne Sexton, T. S. Eliot, and John Updike.

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Movie posters often feature a small quote from a critic two (usually something along the lines of “brilliant!” or “film of the year!”), to entice you to see the flick. But these movie posters by @AwfulReviews are on the opposite end of the spectrum: each poster features quotes from the movie’s 1-star Amazon reviews. And, wow, they’re pretty brutal—but also entertaining.

Check out some more examples after the break…

(Awful Reviews via Cheezburger)