Speaking of vacation photos, here’s a series from the culturally-enlightening trip the wife and I took to Sweden last year: ‘Slut’ appears all over the place in Swedish shopping districts– it apparently indicates that a sale is going to end.

I attended two events last weekend that left me with the sense that my generation is overly nostalglc. First, on Friday night, I went to see the Pixies on their “Doolittle 20th Anniversary Tour.” I was an indie rock groupie in Boston in the late 80s, and this record was something of a watershed event [...]