Depressing?

Yesterday's Post-Dispatch, in the Entertainment section, reviewed I Hate Myself and Want to Die, by Tom Reynolds. This book lists and describes what Reynolds judges to be "the 52 most depressing songs you've ever heard". Now, I haven't read the book, so take my comments below as applying not to it but to the article. (I'd rather blame the reporter than the author!)

( Depressing, or Just Sad? )

Two Links

Here is an online exhibit of manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu. The descriptions of the manuscripts are quite interesting. Hat tip to, um, Language Hat.

Meanwhile, Tenser, said the Tensor notices the etymology of a couple of interesting words.