NEW YORK - Marilyn French, the writer and feminist whose novel The Women's Room sold more than 20 million copies and transformed her into a leading figure in the women's movement, has died at 79.
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From the blog 'A Journey round my skull', Poets ranked by beard weight: "Poets Ranked by Beard Weight is a classic of Edwardian esoterica, a privately printed leaflet offered by subscription to the informed man of fashion and as a divertissement au courant for reading bins and cocktail tables of parlor cars and libraries and smoking lounges of gentlemen's clubs."
(link via Dr jon)
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Grizzly bear is best man at wedding
"Casey Anderson, a modern-day Grizzly Adams, picked a half-ton bear to be best man at his wedding to Hollywood actress, Missi Pyle."
(link from Wayne Beamer, whom I once drew as a snoring grizzly bear)