Slick Jet, Lost Pet, GWOT Vets

A trio of neato stories today.

First up: There's going to be a Virgin America Airlines. Good news. And the first jet was christened the Jefferson Airplane by Grace Slick, whom I hadn't known to be a gifted graphic artist. You can see what she looks like now--and what she paints like--in this dispatch from San Fiasco.

Next, how the hell did a lost 47-year-old parrot get from Johnson City, Tennessee, to Long Island, New York? By car, of course:

"When I heard he was in New York I was skeptical at first," Kendrick said, "but then I talked with Buzzy on the phone and Josh sent [me] photos and it's no doubt that it's him."

Welcome home.

Finally . . . in a world of borderline pointless blogs (like this one), some have to be cool, and The Sandbox is actually worth a look-see. And I would never have known if not for the good folks at the AP.

See ya.