IN SOVIET RUSSIA, BOOKS WOULD READ YOU! As the ThingThrowers have done in the past, my mother has a request for reading picks for an upcoming trip:

Our next trip is coming in May...this time to Eastern Europe with stops in Warsaw, Auschwitz, Krakow, Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, and Prague.  Can you please poll your loyal readers for suggestions?  Would love to hear your recommendations, especially fiction and biography!

I'm sure you folks will have some advice.

hello. The Apple Macintosh personal computer first went on sale 30 years ago today. As an early reviewer had to explain:

To select a program, you move the mouse to the icon and press the button on the top of the little rodent. If there are any additional options, they are displayed at the top of the screen, so you can move the mouse to make the appropriate selection. When this process was described to me, it sounded cumbersome, especially since I'm already comfortable with using a keyboard. But the mouse is so much more intuitive. As infants we learned to move objects around our play pens. Using a mouse is an extension of that skill.

See also the original Consumer Reports review, which as Consumerist notes, "While the original Mac only had 128 KB of memory, the PDF download below of the review is 3.2 MB."

HANX FOR THE MEMORIES:  Before you go ahead with your own life, surely you have eleven minutes today to watch Adam Scott, Paul Rudd, and a cast of notables create The Greatest Moment in Television History.  (This experience is gonna make a great book.)

I WILL NOT DO IT, MASTER BRUCE. I WILL NOT DO IT:  Impersonating Michael Caine never goes out of style.

DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN?  Disney is releasing a sing-along version of Frozen to theaters next weekend.  Not sure how keen I am on listening to an audience sing instead of Idina Menzel, though.  There's even rumor afoot that Disney is already at work on changing Maelstrom (AKA, the only real ride in that half of Epcot) into a Frozen attraction.  It's easy enough to imagine --rather than a troll, it's the Yeti chasing folks, and the post-show movie is "Let It Go" in 3D with a little added material.

DO THAT TO ME NO MORE TIMES: Toni Tennille has filed for divorce from "the Captain" Daryl Dragon after nearly forty years together, a sentence of zero relevance to any readers below ... 35?  Here's a performance from happier days.

SHATTERED YOUTH:  I did not need to know that all Froot Loops are the same flavor, regardless of color.