I was followed on Twitter today by a great account, spam koans. They post the strangest auto-generated spam email subjects they find mentioned in the Twitterverse. If you are on Twitter, and are easily amused by spam, you'll want to check them out.

Also, I assume you all know I'm on Twitter, but if you don't, just go to twitter.com/elleschneider

This kind of article infuriates me, and makes me want to write off female filmmakers as a demographic.

( Because these five women have been quasi-successful in their work, they feel entitled not only to speak for the rest of vagina-kind, but to defend their art-house films with generalizations that reinforce an already biased view towards female filmmakers. )

I attended the Mad Men Season 3 premiere this past Monday. It was a fun event (thought I was surprised they only showed one episode and not two) and the cast was very friendly and talkative at the after party. Too bad I'm too socially awkward to really interact with anyone. Either way, I've always wanted to visit the DGA theater, and it was very nice, as one would imagine.

Back to Mad Men. I've always had small problems with the show, but in general this season opener was much stronger than the last season's finale. Most characters had agency and plot advances in addition to witty lines, which isn't always the case with Mad Men. If this pace keeps up, I'm really looking forward to what's in store for the season.

( spoilers ahead )

About 150 birds seized in fighting investigation Police seized approximately 150 birds and arrested 19 people in a Connecticut home Sunday in an investigation of alleged finch and canary fighting, the Shelton Police Department said.

Snuggie gets new legs with dog version If your pooch is always trying to hog your Snuggie, now you can buy Fido its own.

New Sex Doll FOR DOGS Hits The Market In the column marked, ‘news headine I didn’t expect to be writing this morning’ we can confidently state we believe this dog ‘toy’ to be genuinely unique.

Fla. highrise has 32 stories, but just 1 tenant FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Vangelakos' southwest Florida condominium has marble floors, a large pool overlooking a river and modern furnishings that speak of affluence and luxury. What they don't have in the 32-story building is a single neighbor.

China 'trusts prostitutes more' China's prostitutes are better-trusted than its politicians and scientists, according to an online survey published by Insight China magazine.

Voyage to study plastic 'island' The second of two research ships bound for a huge "island" of plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean leaves San Francisco today. *this one is really interesting*

As a note: most of these I post on twitter before I post them here. So if you're into this stuff, you can find it there too.