The Daily Parker

For a couple of odd timing reasons, this is my first full 5-day week at my new job...and it's already a 5½-day week. So I've barely enough time to jot these articles down for future reading:

• The former Longaberger building in Newark, Ohio, is for sale. It's a 7-story picnic basket. Seriously.
• Paris tourism has declined 10% over the last few months even as France tourism has increased 1%. Paris officials are worried.
• A resident of the Faroe Islands has created SheepView 360, which is pretty much what it sounds like.
• Winter may have come to Westeros, but not to northern Europe, and that's pushing the Game of Thrones Season 7 release date a few months back.
• Cleveland has no plan for policing next week's Republican National Convention. Will it be 1968 again?

Have fun. I'll catch up to these in a day or two.

Via The Daily Show:

Well, not really; but this is worth a view.

NPR explains:

Posing as her character C.J. Cregg, who was the press secretary in the critically acclaimed show that ran from 1999 until 2006, actress Allison Janney took a surprise turn on the podium to the delight and surprise of the real White House press corps.

Janney ended the spoof by revealing the real reason she was at the White House: to talk about opioid addiction and what was being done to combat the problem. Her current show on CBS, Mom, deals with drug addiction and its struggles.

"This is a disease that can touch anybody, and all of us can help reduce drug abuse through evidence-based treatment, prevention and recovery. Research shows it works, and courageous Americans show it works every day," Janney said.

This comes on the heels of Bradley Whitford (who played opposite Janney on The West Wing) endorsing Hillary Clinton as "by far the most qualified candidate to run for president in my lifetime."