Grab-Bag

-- Maybe the fellow who runs Abercrombie and Fitch shouldn't have been quite so gleeful in describing how his store caters to attractive people instead of everyday slobs, especially everyday slobs who happen to get around via other means than their feet. I'm curious as to how reconfiguring the entryways would cause "permanent damage to the Hollister brand." I would have thought seeing the name "Hollister" on some of the knuckle-draggers who sport it would already have done that.

-- In far more important news, Jalopnik set a team of researchers to determining just what car Superman is compacting on the cover of Action Comics #1, his first appearance. They found out someone else had already addressed the question and that there was no exact match, but either a 1937 De Soto or 1937 Plymouth seems closest to what Joe Shuster drew. Jalopnik has not investigated whether or not Superman had insurance or what exactly the claim form would be for having your criminal get-away buggy accordioned by a strange visitor from another world.

-- The question is not why it took da Bears so long to retire the great Mike Ditka's jersey. The question is how Terry Stoepel, Bob Wallace, Mel Tom, James Scott, Mitch Krenk, Keith Ortego, Will Johnson, James Coley and Ryan Wetnight avoided dropping dead on the spot after daring to touch the sacred number.