Keep your powder dry, reloading.

The Cheesesteak needs some rack time after firing off the last 4 gun entries after Coddy's priming. We'll be back at a more reasonable hour to finish this up. In the meantime, it turns out I wasn't the only one who saw weird stylistic copping going on with a street poster campaign for the new Rambo. Well before I brought it up, The Jay and joblo picked up on the weird Che Guevara-ness of the graphic. Of course, it seems the consensus over at PS3forums thought it was Solid Snake.

I've got a new t-shirt line in my head for a more appropriate post-Che icon, but I won't be able to get my market research resolved until some Philly concert rumors are factualized or debunked. Hopefully that'll all be resolved before I get out of bed.

Ill-Heard BBC Punctuation Suggests Broadcaster's Role in Norman Mailer's Death

Caught this in the wee hours. Moments like this make being awake at ungodly hours fun for the American ear. What we have is an interview with Norman Mailer on the BBC's The Word, recorded during the promotion of Mailer's The Castle in the Forest and rebroadcast on the occasion of the author's recent passing. Cue the file up to about 26:16 to hear the show's host back announce the interview, "Norman Mailer, who died last week, talking to the BBC's Mark Lawson." In the dreamy twilight zoning that comes at dawn after a night of much work and little rest, and given my possession of a somewhat poor transatlantic English ear, I swore I first that caption statement sans commas. Ungrammatical in such a formulation, yes; but undeniably more compelling radio than the properly heard utterance.