Remember a few weeks back, the New York Times Magazine did a piece on the subject of chavs? No? Well chav is a term used derisively in England to mean a kind of ostentatious suburbanite who wears Burberry. Or fake Burberry anyway. Mostly the article said that most people use the term, but there isn't much agreement about what it means. But anyway, it was just a word that I saw and kind of forgot about, though to me, it reminds me of borscht, since it is a kind of yiddish word. Anyhow, thats was until tonight, when I came across a joke that read:

What's the difference between a chav and coconut?

One is hairy, the other is a coconut.

I'm not sure why I find that amusing but I do. Maybe it is just the appealing simplicity of the architecture of that humor.

Also, I wanted to take this opportunity to point out that my readership is 25% greater than I thought, because it turns out I have an occasional reader in Houston, Texas. If this keeps up, I'm going to have to stop making individual mention of everyone who reads, since it will just get to be too much.

But in case anyone else is curious, I'll answer a few of your FAQs: yes, it's lonely out here, yes, the wife didn't like it when I posted photos of her post surgically, yes, I really do eat beans from a can.