You can now get Desert Bus for Android and iOS. Yes, this means you can play Desert Bus on your iPad.
It is 99 cents, but the money goes to Child’s Play. So you can feel virtuous while you pretend to drive between Tucson and Las Vegas. At 45 MPH. In real time. In a pretend bus that keeps drifting to the right.
Okay, would you believe rodent droppings in the pizza?
This has already been on FARK, but I did want to mention it here: Di Fara Pizza in Brooklyn, home of the $5 slice of cheese pizza, has been temporarily closed by the Health Department.
The owners say the “person who was supposed to come in and clean” wasn’t able to make it. And by the way, Occupy Wall Street caused paperwork delays.
(Here’s a classic Marvin Zindler restaurant report from 1999 that includes the phrase that pays. Don’t worry: it shows up at about the 1:50 mark.)
The City of Dallas would like for you to know that they are not responsible for the assassination of JFK.
Not only that, but they’re planning a big 50th anniversary event in 2013, and are raising money to restore Dealey Plaza.
Short shameful confession: I’ve lived in Texas for a long time, but I’ve never visited Dallas. One of these weekends, I’m going to take off, get a hotel room, and visit Dealey Plaza and the 6th Floor Museum.
(The Conspiracy Museum lost their lease a few years back. They were supposedly moving into a new space, but I can’t tell if they actually did.)
So to speak. I suspect the money was actually moved by a wire transfer.
In any case, Jim Crane now officially owns the Houston Astros.
Crane indicated he will be ready to begin making significant moves shortly after Thanksgiving.
TMQ is taking a bye this week.
If you want to read Easterbrook’s “instead of a TMQ”, in which he surveys 30 years of The Atlantic Monthly cover articles you can read that here. (Really. We are not making this up.)
Cigarette taxes in New York City (this is combined city and state tax) are at $5.85 per pack.
This has led folks to find clever ways around the system: mail order cigarettes, until the government cracked down on that, sales of single smokes, cigarette smuggling…and now, roll your own cigarette shops.
I’m sure it comes as no great shock to anyone that the city disagrees, and is suing the shops in federal court.
Awwwwww. I feel bad for the Bloomberg administration. No, wait, that’s still heartburn. Never mind.
John Neville, perhaps best known as Baron Munchausen in Terry Gilliam’s underrated “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”. (Or perhaps as “The Well-Manicured Man” on “The X-Files”.)