Friday, August 5

Four Buds at The Awl

Four buds up at The Awl: “Sweet Addition,” “Civil Love,” “Because Song,” and “& Brightness.” Thanks to Mark Bibbins for publishing me yet again. Also featured today: Jim Behrle’s “Songs That Have Made Me Bawl My Eyes Out While Doing Karaoke” and this:

“A plant has killed and ‘eaten’ a blue tit at a garden nursery in Somerset. Nurseryman Nigel Hewitt-Cooper, from West Pennard, was inspecting his tropical garden when he discovered one of his pitcher plants had trapped the bird. He said he was ‘absolutely staggered’ to find it had caught the creature. It is believed to be only the second time such a carnivorous plant has been documented eating a bird anywhere in the world.”