I'm only mildly curious about Hoffa, but I have to make zombie cupcakes for Hallowe'en. Brilliant!
Jane and Michael Stern hit the road in search of a Connecticut "road food" specialty: steamed cheeseburgers. (And here I thought that it was a White Castle thing.) For more goodies, check out roadfood.com.
Via Warren Ellis: for an anniversary date that you'll always remember, tie the knot on 6/6/06. "In the UK, some expectant mothers whose babies are due on June 6 are so concerned about giving birth on the date marked by the satanic number that they have scheduled caesareans and inductions beforehand."
Gnome ban. Gnome ban. Gnome ban. "Mr Rumball objected to the ban, claiming it was sheer snobbery that kept gnomes out. He pointed out that garden gnomes were the pride of 19th-century aristocratic gardens before they fell from grace […]"
Very funny Lore Sjöberg (of Brunching Shuttlecocks fame) on the joy of rental cars.