Spoilers in the comments.

Sometimes I am too deadpan for my own good. The joke seemed pretty obvious to me, especially since Lat said where he was freaking going for the weekend in the previous post.

Separately, I see kuro5hin sells "YHBT. YHL. HAND." t-shirts, which weirds me out even more than those old Tau Epsilon Delta t-shirts do, though I guess that's technically a Kibo Echeverri production, so I wouldn't get royalties anyway.

I'm guest-blogging at David Lat's Above the Law today.

Slim sends me this Boing Boing post:

Here's a flickr set of pictures documenting the zombie rights march to Austin's City Hall last Friday. The zombies' signs in the march included badly spelled slogans such as "Mairage = 1 Zombie + 1 Zombie", "More Binifits for Zombie Vets in Our Necronomoconomy", "Brains...The Other White Meat", "We're here, we're dead, get used to it!" and "Zombies Was People Too."

Are there really people eating at Applebee's because they're "afraid of being thought to be snobs"? I may be a food snob, but I still love my Del Taco "Del Meat" Burrito, am not above eating at Bertucci's in a pinch, yet I've managed to avoid Applebee's my whole life.

I get really angry at bad Thai and Vietnamese restaurants in DC, but that's just because of the opportunity cost: how dare this place stay in business and trick people into eating such pap when there are so many better options?

Speaking of which: Ruan Thai (Wheaton). This place is highly recommended by Tyler Cowen. It's very good for (1) Wheaton and (2) its price point, which, for dinner if not lunch, is lower than, say, the secret Thai restaurant. What was good: the yum pla korb, the whole fish (though "market price" takes this place out of its budget-range advantage), the baked seafood in yellow sauce. The tom kha kai was special, not being overwhelmed by coconut the way it is at most restaurants or when I make it, and the restaurant has the nice touch of allowing one to order a large bowl and share amongst smaller bowls. Meh: the duck with basil and chili. What surprised me was the claim by every reviewer that this place was unusually spicy; I didn't find this at all. Perhaps we ordered wrong (though everything except the fish had a chili symbol), but the overwhelming taste was sweet, rather than savory; I never felt the fire of the secret Thai restaurant. I'd thus rank Ruan Thai behind the latter, and perhaps even Duangrat's; too, Wheaton is even a bigger travel hassle than Herndon for me, so it's unlikely I'll be back often.

Pork chops, Kobe steaks, vinyl nail caps for cats, and new furniture to celebrate financial stability.