Favorites. From studio choo.

Do you know what Mitochondrial Eve means? It means that you can trace the human genome along matrilineal lines to the most recent common ancestor of all modern humans. 200,000 years ago or so. RAD!!!!!

note 1: uber-grandmother is not the first female modern human, just the one whose genetic line has been unbroken by men who did not pass on x-chromosomal DNA (i.e., who only had sons).

note 2: There’s also a Y-Chromosomal Adam, but Y-Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve are not the parents of modern humans; Eve was 80,000 years older than Adam. Sorry, fundamentalists; not even in Cougartown.

Last night Wyatt took me to see some country musician who I’d never heard of, and we ended up seeing Gillian Welch, Willie Watson, Ketch Secor, Dave Rawlings and Nate Walcott all up on stage together at the Troubadour. There were six fiddles. No one was dressed like a trussed-up glam turkey. ‘Twas so awesome.

Mark Twain, the ultimate crotchety gentleman, crotches on about telephones in the year 1880.

Juka Araikawa.

Reminds me of Mari!

Looking at Backyard Bill makes my insides jostle. How I used to love searching for neat clothing everywhere I went…before I became a student and had to choose between that and food. I am just going to have to become a terrifically frumpy scientist with perfectly-tailored lab coat and tweed cardigan and funny specs and think of these bleak, horrifically Gap-clad days as my salad years.

Jared Iorio.

Thank you, Jared, for not being in Brooklyn. Lord, I have SEEEN Brooklyn.