First snow of the year linkage ...

I was going to go out today and buy Adele's new album, but then the terrorists would win.

So I did some linkin' instead:

** This sounds like a case for Gabriel Allon. Eleven masterpieces stolen.

“It’s as if you broke into the Uffizi Galleries (in Florence) and stole a Botticelli. You couldn’t sell it on the open market,” said Tomaso Montanari, an art historian. “It’s certainly the most serious theft in the history of Italian art.” 

** I like this lady's attitude. Seems like a winner. My only question on how she lost her artificial leg is why she wasn't wearing it on the airplane, unless she has more than one or a special one for running. Either way. Happy ending. Here's the story.

** A free plug and two thumbs up for zennioptical.com and the two prescription eyeglasses, delivered, for under 25 bucks. Seemed too good to be true, but very happy with them.

** This is pretty cool: This beautiful poster captures 42 (Great American novels), together with the location in which they are set. From Ahab off Nantucket, to Ignatius J. Reilly in the Big Easy, Tom Joad fleeing the Dust Bowl to HST entering Bat Country - it's all here.

** Today's group to jones on isn't new, but this song popped up on Pandora today and reminded me how much I like them: Confederate Railroad. Here's "She Never Cried."