The One-Page Magazine - NYTimes.com Harry Shearer is proud of how "This Is Spinal Tap" brings people together - or drives them apart. "You'd be surprised at how many people say that's their litmus test for first dates," says Shearer, whose latest album of musical satire is called "Can't Take a Hint." "If he or she doesn't get "Spinal Tap," it's like, well, that's it." When Shearer met his wife, the singer Judith Owen, he was wearing the horseshoe mustache of Derek Smalls. "We have one of the greatest meet-cutes, in real life, ever," he says. John Kerry's convention speech Roger Clemens's comeback Beer steins* Mars rover photos (in all aspects besides that they were taken on Mars) Scones Jersey sheets Additional reporting and user experience by Libby Gery Submitted by @svzwood via #mehlist Defining color is "like defining the word "love," " says Kory Stamper of Merriam-Webster. But studies suggest that the way we classify colors influences how we see them, as in the Himba tribe, whose members tend to perceive blues and greens very differently than Westerners do. To the Himba, the sky is black. By Roger Bennett With the N.B.A. poised to allow teams to festoon corporate sponsors on their jerseys, franchises should study the experience of the German soccer club Werder Bremen, which agreed to splash the name of local poultry giant, Wiesenhof, on its shirts for $12.3 million. Unfortunately, Wiesenhof, which slaughters 4.5 million chickens per week, had just been the subject of a documentary describing conditions so shocking that even McDonald's dropped it. Now more than 21,000 fans have signed an online petition urging the club to end the deal. As one local paper noted of the emblazoned chests: "Perfect Deal: Werder Bremen Gets Chicken Breasts." In Friuli, we often skip dessert on hot evenings and opt instead for a cool lemony concoction called sgroppino to "untie the knot" from dinner. Pour 1 cup of iced vodka into a blender and add a pint of lemon gelato, ½ bottle of prosecco and 1 cup of ice cubes and blend until frothy and smooth. Pour into chilled Champagne flutes or even old style Copacabana copas. Repeat till unnecessary. Profound financial anxiety. Leo was so stricken with bangst that he crumpled up his A.T.M. receipts without looking at them. See also: Cashtigate (condemn spending); explainditure (justify spending); moanetize (beg for funds). PAUL WRITES: As a designer and baseball fan, I love to collect those miniature souvenir baseball helmets that they serve ice cream in. My wife, however, would like me to get them out of the kitchen cabinets. She argues that I have not been to many of the teams" stadiums and that the helmets, therefore, are not souvenirs. I admire that your wife came up with such a thought-provoking reason for asking you to get rid of your garbage-toys. I do not begrudge you your hobby. Even as someone who loathes most sport, the design nerd in me will stare at sports logos all day. (Best use of negative space? The defunct Hartford Whalers" phantom "H." But if your plastic-hat bowls truly are collectible, remove them to your office or another special location. Remember: the line between a collector and a hoarder is a display case. Listen to the judge's podcast and submit questions for adjudication at www.maximumfun.org/jjho When you know that you are meant to do something, and you want to do that so passionately - and you focus on it - it usually opens up. I persevered in acting. I knew I could. I thought I was going to do "The Young and the Restless" for 3 years, and now it's 39 years later. As told to Spencer Bailey