Okay, it's Friday, and I'm easily amused. And so I must needs share.

From Crooked Timber: One of the ten-best acknowledgements in a scholarly work, ever.

From a commenter at CT: The best acknowledgements page ever.

From Forbes.com: Hallowe'en masks. Be Trump, Elvis, or Paris Hilton. Or a particularly wrathful Dick Cheney.

And I just got two questions on restoration of railroad stations in a two-hour shift. Unrelated. Go figure.