* here are the lyrics to Rickie Lee Jones' "Pirates." I don't know why, either.
* the recasting of a familiar image to reflect on a tragedy without the violence of the event itself literally bleeding through tends to be the way to deal with death-soaked incidents that catches on with the most people: this is a sterling example.
* finally: Mark Evanier remembers Carolyn Kelly at the year's anniversary of her passing.
* Noah Berlatsky on 
