It's National Nap Day

It's been around since 1999. Fact: young people hate to nap. I'll sleep when I'm dead!No, that's not sleep, as it entails the irreversible cessation of brain activity. The older you get, the more you appreciate naps. Here are reasons the Nap Day's founders believe you should temporarily lose consciousness:

The couple that invented the observance, William and Camille Anthony, are "presidents of the Napping Company," according to the Boston University piece from which I am quoting wholesale. They wrote "The Art of Napping," and I hope that's intended as a joke, a satire on the hundreds of books and seminars that offer to teach you "The Art of Cheese" or "The Art of Pencil Sharpening" or "The Art of Figuring Out the@*#($@ Front Panel on the Office Microwave" or anything else that is not an art.

Anyway, naps are dandy, and offices that provide a place for people to get 10 minutes of REM so they wake refreshed, clear-headed, and ready to look busy for half an hour before heading home for the day - well, that's good employee management.

White noise helps. More than pink or brown noise, but that might be a matter of taste.

And why might you be sleepy today? This:

Related: Reasons why Daylight Savings is EVIL. It's a knee-slapper. "A Conspiracy by the Coffee Companies to sell more coffee!" Oh stop. It's too early in the week to set the bar so high.

If we keep the time the way it is now, fine. As long as a summer night still stretches past nine for a while. Can you imagine the sun going down at 7 PM towards the end of summer? No.

How did the school respond? The principal emerged from the back office and engaged in a lengthy back-and-forth with the press and parents. Just kidding; they issued a statement.

Remember, we're talking about plastic figurines on a cupcake. If a bill in Maryland goes through - which it won't - the principal would have to undergo training: the bill, which some are calling "The Toaster Pastry Gun Freedom Act," would prohibit "a principal from suspending or expelling a student who makes a hand shape or a gesture resembling a gun."

Good luck with that.

ARCHITECTURE Chinese tycoon wants to buy the most expensive building in New York. Can you name it?

It's no big deal when foreigners buy iconic buildings. Sloshes some money around, that's all. It's not as if they can pick it up and take it home. Eventually their domestic market tanks, they're exposed as over-leveraged, they sell the building. Rinse and repeat. As for the GM building: Ugh. I hate that thing. As an example of corporate modernism, it's dull and graceless. If no one complains, it's because people have accepted the way it ruins the corner. Here's the old view:

It's the type of structure that's improved when Donald Trump owns it. The short-fingered vulgarian, as he was known in the 80s, filled in the subterranean plaza in front of the structure. These things were popular once - because Rockefeller Center had a successful skating ring, everyone thought their structure should have a recessed plaza, preferably with hard marble rectangular benches, and perhaps a fountain that did not gush water up with noisy joy, but tricked it down a wall, or a big pipe. C'mon down here in this dank space, and experience New York Crime at its most exciting!

ART Says the first comment about this project:

"I'm usually pretty hip to artistic interpretations and approaches... But this... this makes no sense whats so ever. Not even close." He's correct. It does not. Another comment notes that the artist's philosophy is, in fact, "a pantload."