A weekend round-up - non-political edition

• This has to be one of the wierdest sites ever, Crying While Eating, and the LA Times says it's had 15 million visitors since late May, making it one of the most popular around.

• Suburban Guerilla on some strange problems the British are having with domestic cats

• Jim MacDonald over at Nielsen Hayden explores the history and variations of the game of chess.

• Paul Reiser at Huffington Post on Father's Day and driving in the car, made me laugh out loud with this line about making his kids listen to the Boss:

let me tell you something; until you’ve heard a 4 year-old belt out, "This town rips the bones from your back, it’s a death trap..." you have not been entertained.

Actually, real parents have their kids sing songs by Bob Dylan, like Subterranean Homesick Blues. The TL kid could belt out from the age of five,

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government

...Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift

He hasn't been arrested yet, knock on wood.