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Having some friends over for an early birthday party since I'll be on Route 66 the actual day of, and the libations are ready to go. Lagunitas IPA and Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale to share, and the Arrogant Bastard Ale is for me, of course!

Love it or hate it, just don't call it "the worst." Every time a "Worst Car Ever" list comes out, the AMC Pacer seems to find its way onto it. Built from 1975 to 1980, the AMC Pacer is the Worst Cars Ever list's Commander-In-Grief. Its styling was, and still is, daring and different – no melted bar of soap, utterly anonymous profile here. But when it first hit the streets half way through the 1975 model year, the car caused a sensation. AMC dealers couldn’t get enough of them to keep up with demand but still managed to move…

Flash is almost too big for his home. He was half this size when we got him six months ago, and his tail is now nearly as big as his torso. Time for a diet, fatty!

But what I fear, as things go digital, is that a lot of the visceral love of reading will be lost. Not the romance of paper — although, there is that — but that physical connection one gets with books from an early age. That climbing into the book my daughter is doing, the way she can’t turn the page fast enough when she’s excited, the way she flips it aside when she’s done. Of course, there will always be children’s board books. But the question is, as more and more parents spend more and more time with e-book readers…