Genghis Grill is opening a location near the Tucson Mall. The restaurant is a build-your-own stir-fry joint that says it models its cooking techniques on the legend that Genghis Khan's Mongolian warriors cooked their meals on overturned shields while in battle.

Not bad, Genghis Grill. That marketing detail is almost as badass as Khan himself. Almost.

No word on when it'll open or what the exact address is, but I'll let you know when more details become available.

Listen, if your wallet falls down a storm drain, it's time to loudly scream profanities for a bit, then move on with your life. It would not be time to try to retrieve it, getting stuck in the process, and having your legs appear on TV.

[The Awl]

Related to absolutely nothing (other than awesomeness), let's watch some classic dancing from Soul Train. Feel free to join in.

They're doing great things up north at Girls Gone Wild University and Casino:

In some respects, Will Corbin's laboratory is the same as many others at Arizona State University.

Lots of glass bottles on the shelves. A stainless-steel sink. Carefully calibrated lighting.

The similarities stop there, however.

In Corbin's lab, a long bar stretches across the low-lit room. A Beefeater gin sign hangs on a wall. The bottles behind the bar have whiskey, vodka and tequila labels.

The lab's guinea pigs, mostly students, are urged to get drunk.

[AZCentral]

"Woodpecker Mask" from Hidalgo, Mexico, is on display in Faces of Transformation: Mexican Masks from the Lazar Collection, through Sept. 18, at the Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave.

I can't wait to get my hands on This Is Not Your City, a collection of short stories from author Caitlin Horrocks. Here's a snippet of what the New York Times had to say about her new book:

Horrocks’s motley crew of characters have this in common: They don’t find easy anodynes. Lyssa, the wife of a slaughterhouse worker and part-time dog­napper in “Steal Small,” one of the collection’s highlights, tries not to dwell on hardship. But when her husband gets his hands on a beautiful Dalmatian, Lyssa finds herself at a crossroad. Though she doesn’t ordinarily protest his questionable ways (he plans to sell the dogs to pharmaceutical research labs), the Dalmatian plagues her. Her relationship with the idea of rescue is thorny, though, and she fails to free the dog. Instead, like many of the characters in Horrocks’s appealingly rugged-hearted collection, she forges a messier path to solace.

You can read the rest of the review here. For more on Horrocks's, visit her website.

Well, I've been afraid of changes, cause I built my life around you... This week's picture of Mars, courtesy of the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab's HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, highlights the Landslides in Valles Marineris.

Valles Marineris is the largest canyon in the Solar System: if superposed on a map of the United States, it would stretch all the way from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., possibly even up to New England! So this image is just a very small portion of the system.

This observation shows us gully-like landslides (called "mass wasting") on the interior layered deposits of Valles Marineris. These include alcoves and channels, which are also visible in PSP_004396_1675. However, that image quality was very poor due to a dust storm, so a re-image can give us fine-scale shapes and sizes.

This caption is based on the original science rationale.

Written by: HiRISE Science Team (6 July 2011)

The pic makes me long for a little Stevie Nicks:

For more information about the HiRISE, click here.

I believe this prayer to Lord Tiny Baby Christmas Jesus might have been sponsored by Powerade, but I guess Pastor Joe Nelms forgot that part. Still, hell of a grace, man.

[Daily What]

Part of a new series, in which we look at the day's Arizona Daily Star and see how many articles are written by Arizona Daily Star staffers following the massive layoffs last week:

Section A: 5, not counting editorials, briefs, notes, an unsigned retrospective piece and a chart, but including a "For the Arizona Daily Star"; zero Star bylines in the second A section from A11 to A16.
Sports Extra: 2 from Bruce Pascoe, one of which is the Arizona at 100 feature.

Shoving this product down the throats of families and their babies is shady. The months after a child is born are full of uncertainty and worry about so many issues, and the company is attempting to capitalize on that worry by basically getting mothers and their babies hooked on their product, which, by the way, costs a pretty penny.

This is the fourth package that has arrived. They’re really going for it with this campaign. It totally reminds me of a crack dealer, or the shady guy in middle school who said he’d give me a bag of marijuana for free, “But after that, I start charging you.”