From 1991, a taste of things to come. We’re not familiar with Australia’s Clarke and Dawe, a sorry situation we plan to rectify immediately.

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We’ve mentioned in passing that like the generation that grew up in the Depression, being 14 when the 1973 gas crisis hit changes your outlook on life, or at least that part of life dependent on motor vehicles. This is the world moving forward, you think. Best not to get too tied to it.

We also use October 1973 to start the clock, when America was put on notice. And with that clock now approaching thirty-seven years — we should have used a calendar instead — we have no reason to be shocked, Shocked!, to learn that not only do old habits die hard, they don’t die at all:

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“Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain’s dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published.” [Independent UK]

Apparently the universe doesn’t abhor a vacuum:

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) posed for a picture with Birther leader and California secretary of state candidate Orly Taitz at a tea party lunch event in California Friday, Taitz tells TPM.

Taitz and Bachmann both spoke at a lunch sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots, Taitz said in an email. But Birtherism did not come up at the event, according to Taitz…

Bachmann was in California for two days for a tour organized by Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum.

We were going to say something clever here, but we can’t get the Pixies out of our head.

Orly Taitz And Michele Bachmann Appear At Lunch Together [TPM]

“A 33-year-old Philadelphia man was charged today with threatening to kill Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) in a profanity-strewn YouTube video that has since been pulled down.” [TPM]

“People saying they’re going to spit on you and all this. That’s just not fun.” You do not mess with nuns, dude. [The Hill, ThinkProgress]

Apparently some fans of an immersive blockbuster 3-D movie are having trouble stepping out of the pool when the film ends:

On the fan forum site “Avatar Forums,” a topic thread entitled “Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible,” has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie…

Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality.

Well, that’s pretty much our adult life. Without the glasses.

Audiences experience ‘Avatar’ blues [CNN]