Monday morning matters minutiae: baseball-free edition Some random links for your Monday, and nothing about those Cardinals:
It's the latest trend: cool is passe. "Every big-city scenester or bored teenager on the planet has a blog or mass e-mail anointing the moment's hot restaurants, hobbies and handbags. Add to this, mass obsession with celebrity style and global corporatization and you can get nearly the same chai latte or straight-off-the-runway skirt in Columbus, Ohio, that's available in Manhattan or Milan." Link via Arts & Letters Daily.