Strange but True

You know what the main problem with Cadbury's Creme Eggs is? They look too much like real eggs. The yolky appearance of their gooey, delicious insides turned me off for years as a child. But apparently, I'm not the only one who was fooled, as demonstrated by the cockatoo that adopted a clutch of the chocolate eggs as her own.

What happens when you take one of the world's best classical musicians, put a $4 million Stradivarius in his hands, and tell him to play some of the greatest classical pieces ever written, for change in a subway station? Hardly anyone notices that he isn't just your ordinary street musician. It really kind of makes you wonder about a lot of things. My favorite part, though, was the musician's reaction to pulling in $32.17 in 43 minutes (keeping in mind that his talents typically cost over $1000 a minute): "Actually, that's not so bad, considering. That's 40 bucks an hour. I could make an okay living doing this, and I wouldn't have to pay an agent."

And on a more personal note, I just found out that my best friend from high school, who mysteriously dropped off the radar about seven months ago, decided quite spontaneously to move to South Korea to teach English, without telling hardly anyone. Kind of a surprise, but very cool.