Bites: Beer with ‘Bama, blue M&Ms, Gawker is Gold(man Sachs), Muumuu House is noted, fake local Starbucks protests, etc.

DRINKS AT OBAMA’S THIS THURSDAY. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is in charge of the beer run, taking orders. (Is anything else important today? Not really, but in case of boredom read on.)
  • There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate M&Ms based on color and those who don’t. Always firmly in the latter group, I was forced briefly to question my firm stance upon learning that the food dye used in blue M&M’s can mend spinal injuries in lab rats. Decidedly, I still don’t give a crap (my spine is fine), but I’ll hold my tongue the next time someone swears the colors’ respective tastes are distinctive.
  • Is Gawker Media the Goldman Sachs of the Internet? While I’m not sure exactly what that means, it sounds pretty good. The Awl explains why they are.
  • Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago has written a new novel to be published next year called The Elephant’s Journey “based on the real-life epic journey of an Indian elephant from Lisbon to Vienna in the 16th century.” I’m perhaps unduly excited about this, although I don’t know if anyone else is.