Carl Skanberg added to Big League Stew

Carl Skanberg, the creator of the Palehose saga and Smells Like Mascot, will be providing cartoons for the Yahoo! sports blog, Big League Stew. (Herewith a link to Skanberg's first post on the Yahoo! blog.) Future "Smells Like Mascot" cartoons will either run on BLS or in the Southtown Star newspaper -- but the Palehose saga resumes, on the 'net, this weekend.

Play ball.

For my daughter with the English degree -- and a Facebook account

Something called "Austenbook." A 'snapshot' excerpt from the linked site:

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The site is not interactive and its creator acknowledges that the news feed should be in reverse "but this makes for easier reading." Which, of course, is true.