I’m taking a business trip to Atlanta between October 12th and October 15th. Pop me a note if you’re around and would maybe like to get together and connect.

Shooting anything other than .22LR is expensive. If you shoot a .40S&W pistol, ammunition is downright expensive. I am new to all of this, it being only a year since I bought my first firearm and only seven months since I picked up my 40-caliber handgun.

I would never have ever guessed that you could buy bullets via the Internet and they would be delivered to your door via UPS or FedEx. I went onto Google and searched Google Shopping for cheap bulk .40 ammunition, I think, and ended up at Cheap Bulk Ammo and ordered “40 S&W 180 Grain FMJ BVAC – 500 Rounds, Remanufactured, Bulk” for $110.99 plus $22.59 for shipping and look what arrived at my door.

No bells and whistles at all, is there? Bare bones bullets in a box. Such a bizarre culture and I really cannot believe that this is legal — amazing. And please tell me why I cannot order wine online in Virginia?

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As you may well know, I have been hiding out in Portland, Oregon. If you have seen Portlandia, you know that you cannot go anywhere in the PDX if you’re not festooned with birds on things. I commissioned Dave Stoops the crack bag-making team over at Black Star Bags to make me a large courier bag with a bird on it in reflective 3M tape.

Yes, I feel your envy boring into me. Well, you can get a Black Star messenger bag — or any sort of black star bag or back star anything — with a bird on it, just like I have done.

I have been remiss. I had intended to write about Free Hollow Books because they made one of the best selection of hollowed-out books for the private, sneaky, secretive, connoisseur in all of us.

This particular book, A History of Russia and the Soviet Union, is gorgeous, bold, bespoke, and is so dull to all but my most bookish friends.

It also fits a Glock 23 pistol perfectly. And the Glock 19, too. And the Glock 32, I believe. Yes, hollow books that are double-secret gun cases! Basically, it’ll fit most variants of the Glock compact pistol along with a couple spare magazines.

This Overheard in New York submission is particularly brilliant and is a completely soap operatic in only seven lines:

Mom: Say you’re sorry to Billy.
Tiny girl: But I’m not sorry!
Mom: Katy, you apologize right now!
Tiny girl: But you said lying was bad!
Mom: And hitting is bad too! Now say you’re sorry!
Tiny girl: I hit him with a stick because he sucks. And he still sucks, so I’m not sorry.
Mom: You hit him with a stick? (grabs Katy and storms over to father on picnic blanket)
Tiny girl, over her mother’s shoulder: I’m not sorry, Billy!
–Central Park

Via Billy Decides to Stop Sucking

How cool is this Suzuki DR650SE enduro with an after-market 30 liter safari tank. That’s 7.9 gallons of fuel which translates to just about 434.5 miles of riding on one tank at 55 mpg:

I love it when folks are helpful, even when it’s at the end of the check at the end of the meal: Tipping Etiquette:

This is the bottom of a check at a restaurant. What do you think of this? Is it a good customer experience or presumptive?

I love it when restaurants get “presumptive” because if they were being presumptive, they would have gone higher than 20%.

Via Branding Blog

So, now I have a routine in Portland: quiz night. Almost exactly three miles, door-to-door:

Steve McQueen‘s international motorcycle license! Is this not the coolest artifact ever?

Via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats by Kimberly Lindbergs.