The smudged-penis kalyx

Did I get your attention? It’s a story about an ancient Greek pot with smudged genitalia. And a great quote:

that penis will be “the subject of much detective work over the next year”

If you’re interested, go here.

NEWSISH FILMS: Robert Streeten offers his choices for the top movies about journalists. YouTube clips are provided:

When the journos writing the stories start becoming the stories, great films are made. So here are my top tenacious movie hacks:

1) Woodward and Bernstein, with the help of Deep Throat, blow the Watergate scandal wide open in All the President’s Men.

2) Walter Burns and Hildy Johnson go nineteen to the dozen in His Girl Friday.

3) Guy Hamilton’s passion for the big story comes at a cost in The Year of Living Dangerously.

4) Sydney Schanberg’s reports exposed the horrors of Cambodia’s civil war in The Killing Fields, but he couldn’t have done it without his fixer Dith Pran.

5) Clark Kent is more than the side parting and thick-rimmed glasses that preserve Superman’s anonymity.

I think I’ve seen only numbers 3 and 4. No. 4 was one of the saddest movies I’ve ever seen. Maybe sadness isn’t exactly the word to use. The most heart-wrenching? I left the theater in tears. Walked the streets of Ann Arbor crying.

EAT NO DOG: With the Chinese population becoming wealthier, pets are becoming more popular. And so the talk grows about stopping the practice of eating dogs and cats.