Donut King, that is! Closed down for good and no longer tempting patrons who are overweight in body and underweight in brain. It's bad news for dentists and the doctors busily prescribing cholesterol-lowering pills.
We popped into my favourite shop where I found Daniel C. Dennett's "Breaking the Spell - Religion as a Natural Phenomenon". You probably won't bother to read the book by this great thinker, so here's part of his lecture on YouTube:
I also bought two little-known but touching movies on DVD: "Wadjda", the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, and "September", an Australian coming-of-age story, both of which have trailers on YouTube:
So now you know how I'll be spending the next couple of days.
