I Love the British Let's hear it for a level playing field for potatoes!

BIG Kitty, Kitty, Kitty He's big, he's beautiful, and he's still growing...

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/101577 The perfect thing for a summer evening, when you don't want to heat up the kitchen! The first one and this one use the traditional chick-peas and lemon juice; the third one uses black beans and lime juice. They're all divine.

Double-y Dactyl-y Hey, Monkeys, speaking of Piet Hein and Grooks, how about a thread on people who invented forms of humorous verse? Let's begin with my dissertation chairman, Paul Pascal, who co-invented the form known as the Double Dactyl, or Higgledy Piggledy: more inside

The last word on feathered dinosaur art! This is a man who loves his work. (I don't think that weird number on the home page is a self portrait, but You Never Know.)

Curious, George: Apocalypse Back Then I don't have a link, which is why I'm getting in touch with you. I'm looking for a science-fiction novel that probably was published some time in the 1980s or 1990s, may have a woman author, and had to do with life in Topanga Canyon before and after the Bomb fell on L.A. It was neither Into the Forest nor The Gate to Women's Country, both of which are set in northern California. It contains one unforgettable scene in which surfers are surfing on the melted sands of Malibu Beach. Does this ring any bells with sci-fi-reading monkeys?