Further proof that you should stay off the waterways if you value your life: my buddy John Thompson just landed a 19-foot fishing boat, which he’ll be captaining around.

Words without poems: I have been limiting the number of unnecessary inputs of late, but two that have my attention are Scrabulous for Facebook and Wordie. Scrabulous is a fine application that allows Anthony King and Lee Creighton to absolutely pulverize me in Scrabble at the rate of one or two turns a day, leaving me doubting that I have the vocabulary necessary to be a decent poet. Wordie is a site that Rosalynde Vas Dias turned me on to, which allows me to find new ways to attempt to punish them back, if I have the right tiles…