Groundhog Day
I always mean to make a bigger deal out of Groundhog Day, but Punxsutawney Phil always slips my mind until too late. The failure, appropriately repeated in unintentional imitation of Groundhog Day, is at an end. There is not yet a branch of CADMUS devoted to the celebration of eccentric holidays, Narwhal Day being the marquee event, but by this time next year there shall be and it shall have succeeded brilliantly in making a proper ballyhoo out of Groundhog Day. Ballyhoo ho!

Mayhap I should also attempt a Quixotic revival of Candlemas?

The Queue
Having read, between December and January, five proper books, three short stories, and two cartoon collections (the Searle volumes), I am taking a brief pause. This shall last until The Bloody Red Baron resurfaces at my local lending library; at present, infuriatingly, the Genesee District Library's copy seems to have gone walkabout. I shall pass the time with complimentary copies of The Wall Street Journal and with added devotion to Project TRITON.

Recently
Kim Newman, Anno Dracula
John Polidori, "The Vampyre"
Ronald Searle & Kaye Webb, Paris Stetchbook
Saki, "The Interlopers"
Ronald Searle, St. Trinian's: The Entire Appalling Business
David J. Brown, Bridges: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature

Currently
various, Great Adventures with National Geographic (catch as catch can)

Presently
Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Baron
David M. Friedman, The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
Ernest Shackleton, South
John Toland, The Great Dirigibles: Their Triumphs and Disasters (catch as catch can)
Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd be Cake
John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise

Distantly
Rudyard Kipling, The Man who would be King and Other Stories
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Saki, The Complete Saki

Uncertainly
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale (pg. 87)

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
She & Him, "Sentimental Heart" from Volume One (T.L.A.M.)