Every year, Beloit College publishes a "Mindset List" that reveals just how god damn young College Kids These Days are. They've never worn a wristwatch, or enjoyed an egg cream with their A-1-gal in the old-fashioned style? What the fuck?

The Way It Was: An interesting look at the friendship between New York Times reporter Edith Evans Asbury and artist Georgia O'Keeffe—friendship eventually destroyed by reporting on O'Keeffe's private life. This is why hardcore reporters have no friends. [NYT]

Charming ad in today's NYT: a 100 year-old Times front page, with a Corn Flakes ad at the bottom. 'Statue of Purity For Times Square,' says one typically laughable old-timey headline. How unlikely!