More spirited debate going on over at John Green's blog about a book's advance vs. its marketing budget. Really fascinating stuff, for anyone even tangentially related to the book biz.

RECIPE OF THE WEEK - coming up later today; just need to make some edits to the fabulous Slow Cooker Pork Pozole I made yesterday (YUM!).

And now for the other thing (if you're reading this over at Facebook, you may want to avert your eyes, though there's nothing graphic here so much as a recommendation for a good girly parts doc in the area):

( Cut in case you're so not interested in anything having to do with  )