Fire & Ice Cream

Sunday, Apr. 15, 2007 - 12:14 a.m.

Cinema Insomnia was pretty good; the feature presentation was The Day The Earth Caught Fire, made in 1961 and starring Leo McKern and Janet Munro.

Michael Caine had a bit part, too!

The flick itself was wonderful, but the eye-opener for me was the horrifyingly innocent 'Duck And Cover' interstitials.

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Don Ho died yesterday. He was 76 and he had heart trouble.

I discovered if you put the words DON and HO in the Google News search engine without putting them in quotes, you get a hell of a lot of stories that have nothing to do with him.

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Congratulations to Chicago for being chosen as the US bid submission for the 2016 Olympics bid.

This means that Chicago will submit a bid for hosting, along with Tokyo, Rio, and Prague, with the final decision made later this fall by the IOC.

I guess it's kind of handy to have an infrastructure that hasn't been compromised by domestic war for over 140 years, and a place where athletes from all over the world can come and train in the best facilities with the best trainers on the planet.

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This just in from the London Book Fair:

A book titled The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification has been named as the oddest book title of the year.

The annual prize, awarded by industry magazine Bookseller, drew more than 5,500 internet voters to its website.

The shopping trolley book, by Julian Montague, picked up 1,866 votes.

Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Dagestan came second, with Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence in third place.

"We are delighted to reward a brilliant piece of niche publishing again this year," said Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller.

"For everyone who has ever seen an abandoned supermarket trolley and wondered how it got there, The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America is an indispensable guide."

"The book is a labour of love and apparently took the author six years to compile," he added.

Other runners-up include How Green Were the Nazis? and D Di Mascio of Coventry - An Ice Cream Company of Repute, With An Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans.

The contest began in 1978 - previous winners include High Performance Stiffened Structures, Living with Crazy Buttocks and How To Avoid Huge Ships.

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I think that's it. Have a lovely Sunday.

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