Calling all junk: Neighborhood ninjas, Florida weirdness, my close friend Carl Kasell, Backstreet cockatoo
By William M. Hartnett on Oct 16, 2007 in oddities, video
A thousand apologies, Hartnett readers, for being blog-lazy (blazy?) lately. I’ll write something substantive some day soon. Or not. In the meantime, just a few odds and ends I wanted to get on the record.
- I can’t get enough of this story from today’s Palm Beach Post: Ninja-like force protects exclusive Gardens enclave. The people who live in this ninja-protected Palm Beach Gardens neighborhood are a bit ridiculous (Seriously, wake-up calls and hanging picture frames?), but the glimpse of life on the raw, dirty streets of north Palm Beach County is excellent.
- Nice tale of Florida weirdness from The Miami Herald: Wife’s lottery secret costs years of grief.
- And another: Dead man was in avocado tree for days.
- What prompted me to finally sign up for Facebook after so many months of complete indifference? I read in Sunday’s New York Times that Carl Kasell had 1,602 Facebook friends and wanted to see his profile. (He’s up to 2,371 now.) This is almost as embarrassing as the time I learned about boxes, bubbles and donks in The New York Times Magazine.
- Here is a video of a cockatoo dancing to a song by the Backstreet Boys, possibly the best video of a cockatoo dancing to a song by the Backstreet Boys I’ve ever posted. That is all.
