Retreating to the Tumblr Caves

After three marvelous episodes, the Sherlock fandom must now retreat into hibernation for, what, two-three years? (I'm already dying to see season 4, and season 3 hasn't even aired in the U.S. yet. I don't think I can handle it.)

Don't mind them - they're just waiting for season 4, too.
Not much else for them to do, right?

I have nothing particular to rant about today. I'm sure something will turn up tomorrow.

But one probably good piece of news: Fast Track Dead on Arrival? It looks like TPP won't get fast tracked, and "[t]here is no way the treaty survives in Congress without the expedited procedure." It's still too early to celebrate, but there's light at the end of the tunnel!

Links!

• I Read You Loud and Clear: Author Kevin Baker decided to drop in on a book club reading his book. Oh, dear...
• Do you want to work for The National Department of Poetry? I'm part of the E.E. Cummings Society. 
• Ever wonder what exactly happened to me when I was a child, that I ended up so strange? Well, my mother read me Stephen King at bedtime and sang me to sleep with The Three Ravens. It's a beautiful song.
• April 6! I'm so excited!
• A big fat (and very dangerous) lie: A former Cosmo editor lifts the lid on airbrushing skinny models to look healthy: We know it's common practice for magazines to photoshop models - airbrushing away spots and wrinkles, making them thinner, etc. Did you know it's also common practice for editors to airbrush away the unpleasant side effects of being too thin? Because (Surprise!) starving yourself in order to reach standards the fashion industry has created through technological wizardry is actually less "pretty" and more "pretty terrible for you."
• Chris Christie And Pulling The Red Handle: His weight is not what determines his worth (or lack thereof) as a politician. And making jokes about his weight doesn't just hurt him - it hurts lots of other people who struggle with their weight. 
• Attention coffee drinkers: caffeine improves memory, study finds: Oh, man, I can't imagine how bad my memory would be without coffee, then!
• It Is Expensive to Be Poor: The cost is hard on the spirit, the body - oh, and also the wallet. 
• The Myth of Health Care's Free Market: I do wish we'd move to a single-payer system; a free market approach to health care just doesn't make sense.
• ITALIAN CHARGED WITH KILLING IRISHMAN IN CHESS ROW: Okay, that's it. That's the Internet for the day. I am officially going away now. (I am NEVER playing Monopoly with that guy...)