Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper is nasty. And just to put that into perspective, I like the taste of Moxie.

On the highway between Lafayette and Indianapolis, there's this one exit that always catches my notice:

Now, my assumption was that segregation had something to do with the nomenclature, but apparently Whitestown was named after Senator Albert Smith White, and Brownsburg after one of its first settlers, James B. Brown.

However, in the course of looking up that information, I discovered that Brownsburg had been a sundown town - a place where racial minorities were not permitted after the sun had set. I suppose there's some small irony that while Brownsburg is known to have had sundown laws, there's no evidence that Whitestown did. Nonetheless, the whole state has a fairly embarrassing racial history altogether.

I'd never heard of sundown towns before. But all this information fits right into some of the themes I'd planned for the novel I hope to write.

Ran across the video of Björk's All is full of love, which I'd never seen before. Wonderful visuals, and the behind the scenes video explained why I couldn't tell if it was done with CG, greenscreen or practical robots.

Then I made the mistake of clicking "View all 3295 comments". Jeez. I guess if I ever want to get lots of angry, poorly spelled, barely comprehensible comments on something, I should include a pair of female androids kissing. It's amazing how many people feel threatened by that.