In Petersburg, Kentucky, a bunch of people from a group called Answers in Genesis have just spent around $27 million dollars to build a creationist theme park called the Creation Museum. Well, not exactly a theme park -- I mean, there's no rides. But they do have life-size dioramas and animatronics designed by the guy who created the Jaws and King Kong exhibits at Universal Studios Florida. So I guess it's a bit like if Disneyland just had you wander through the rides looking at stuff.

I'm reading a Washington Post article by Peter Slevin, which quotes from Ken Ham, an Answers in Genesis co-founder.

I had my first espresso at my first music show -- X at the Showbox in October 1982. I still have half the ticket, so I know the show was on a Thursday in October, and hat it cost $9.50 which probably seemed like a lot in 1982. I also have the business card from the espresso stand, which tells me only that in 1982 you could still call something "the espresso bar" in Seattle and it wasn't a joke. They offered, it seems, "quality coffee service for all occasions."

Certainly, they offered something for a 16-year-old to buy at an all-ages show.

In this year, 2007, which is now 138.5 days old, people died. People die every year, every hour, every minute.

Kurt Vonnegut died April 11, and that made me a little sad, because I've never seen him in real life and now I never will. He died at the age of 84, after brain injuries sustained in a fall.

Kurt Vonnegut helped me survive high school.