Best live performance I've heard in a dairy section.

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As some of you know, my darling dear one has a tendency towards the surreal on F-Day, events revolving around over-the-top maleness, but with a twist. Last year, I walked with my eyes closed onto the deck of a downtown public indoor pool that was revealed to be stocked with rainbow trout for the weekend. Was handed a pole, bait and walked away 45 minutes later with a bag of fresh-caught fish. This year, even weirder.

After the most incredible breakfast-in-bed ever, this Father's Day found me at Black Creek Pioneer Village, where we watched red-coats trade musket fire with rebellious Americans while enabling the escape of Loyalist refugees. She felt that watching men in sweat-soaked wool wreathed in black powder smoke was just the ticket for Father's Day - a perfect mix of masculinity and ludicrousness. I think her message is: "Your contributions are acknowledged with gratitude, but don't get too full of yourself. Without me, you'd probably be hanging out with amateur blacksmiths and smooth-bore rifle enthusiasts." Or worse.
 
And then we got to eat ribs, so it's all good.
 
 
(* just to be clear, neither of us had ever seen anything like this before outside of school field trips. At the same time, nothing written here is intended to disparage the historical reenactment community, its participants, or their commitment to bringing history to life on a volunteer basis. I learned my lesson after making jokes at the expense of the Rennaisance Faire people. Some special interest groups you just don't want to mess with.)

We've been beating the 979 drum for a while, but it's finally here. And they aren't being issued somewhere out-of-the-way like Burkina Faso, but in EU/decadent West/producing-tons-of-books *France*! And that means anyone with French books passing through their supply chains has finally reached their day of identifier reckoning. I'm still amazed how many companies are still using 10-digit ISBNs internally. Hopefully this is the catalyst they need.
 
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6662358.html?rssid=192
 
And the release from the International ISBN Agency (so you know it's real.)