Seeing the multitude of trash floating in the sea and on the shores of Jakarta Bay, a friend said, “Disgusting. Humans! Deplorable!”

Another friend walked up to her and said, “I still maintain that they are debris washed ashore from Atlantis.”

“GOSH! Is that…?” a friend asked, pointing at a floating woman’s sanitary napkin, unable to finish her sentence.

“Ariel’s not pregnant yet, is she? Mermaids.”

And speaking of mermaids, a short and entirely forgettable-come-midday topic: “The Starbuck Siren Slash Mermaid: Porn or Not”. Obviously, my mailing list isn’t the place for up-to-date coffee house gossip. But, just in case I need to know about it later, I’m putting down the links here. Just for my information, really: here and here.