Howling Poop Bomb
Caught this howler in the act of pooping (right at 6 seconds) down somewhere on the coast of Nicaragua last week.
Layover
Layover in long-distance travel by plane, train, or inter-city bus can refer to a break that a passenger must take between vehicles in a multi-vehicle trip. It refers to the time that is spent at a terminal after departing one vehicle and waiting to board the next. Many inter-city and international travelers face layovers during their journeys. (Wikipedia)
Rise at 3:30 AM to catch a 6:00 AM flight from Dallas to Milwaukee and come 9:00 AM, when two and half hours remain till you board your thirty-minute flight from Milwaukee to Madison, you see wondrous apparitions.
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Thule himself would have to admit that Svetlana was pressed awfully close to him, considering that they’d known each other less than ten minutes, inquired Fern.
My New Motto
by way of Deron to Sheila to Cindy to me:
“Just pitch me in the pussy dump.”
stay classy
As noted earlier, in addition to menacing behavior toward multiple members of Congress, one protestor called Rep. Barney Frank a “faggot”, a taunt greeted by laughter from fellow protestors.
We’re now getting reports that other protestors yelled “nigger” at Rep. John Lewis (D-GA).
It’s good to see the bill debated on its merits.
Update: More.
Update: Still more.
Your oversized shirt days are almost through, Christine — you better enjoy it while you can
the allure of the automobile
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta is hosting an exhibit of 18 cars designed from the 1930s to the 1960s. The exhibit opens in June.
shark-bitten crocodile poop fossils
Paleontologists have stumbled across a scientific first that’s sure to inspire both fascination and disgust: coprolites, or fossilized fecal matter, bearing the distinct impressions of a creature’s teeth.
The coprolites — one chunk of rock is fist-sized, the other is about 30 percent larger — were discovered on a beach along the western shore of Chesapeake Bay, says Stephen Godfrey, a paleontologist at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Md.
You’re welcome.
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It is true that the vast majority of paintings which are made by living artists increase in value upon the artist’s death….
State Highway 19, Alex, OK 73002
I was hot-footing it through Oklahoma in the snow and rain when this stopped me in my tracks.
The prize at the end of the day was meeting Cindy, Amy, Daryl and Deron. A sweet conclusion
to a trying day.
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If you’d asked me a week ago what color Andrew’s eyes are, I couldn’t have told you. Now I’ll never forget.
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It was a good night
Look into my eyes
And feed me a cracker:
Professor Jin Zhang of the University of Western Ontario has developed contact lenses which could help monitor diabetes by changing color with the user’s glucose level variations. The users will be alerted to dangerous sugar levels with a change in lens color, without needing to undergo regular blood tests. The hydrogel lenses are embedded with nanoparticles which change color by reacting with the glucose in wearer’s tears.
the house of Ruben Bustes (picture edition), plus cactus
Sheila and I returned to the scene of the crime. Behold! The house of Ruben Bustes!
And for those for whom a photograph of the cactus house will not disrupt the museum of the mind, a picture below the fold.
Uh-Oh
Anybody seen Deron in the last hour?
I Met The Walrus
This has been floating around for some time now, but I don’t think it’s been here and it is fantastic enough to mention for the um-teenth million time on the web. The short story on the video:
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack
hat tip to It’s Nice That for the reminder.
Big Star – Thirteen
A few days late by web standards, but RIP Alex Chilton
historical perspective
If Obamacare passes, that free insurance card that’s in people’s pockets is going to be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the war between the states — the Great War of Yankee Aggression.
I remember hearing that phrase for the first time delivered by a 90-something archbishop in a sermon at a summer camp I worked at in Virginia — it was shockingly ridiculously gorgeously idiotically beautiful.
Your cat hates your baby and wants to kill it
Not true!
There can’t be many people who still believe that cats deliberately suffocate babies by sucking the breath out of them, but in case you’re one of them, they don’t. That doesn’t mean a sleeping cat couldn’t accidentally suffocate a newborn baby (there are a few documented cases), so it makes sense to keep the cat out of the baby’s room for the first couple of months.
Pet myths, debunked. The rodent-type animals in this pet line-up are particularly soulful looking. I found this one the most disturbing:
Cats purr when they are happy: True, but they also purr when they’re in pain, and when they’re dying.
caught sleeping
A good Rohrer-related read:
She shrieked in response and called for her friends. I ran back into the safety of the bathroom only to find that I’d been in the women’s room the whole time, and there were more girls here now. I tried to hide in a stall as a small mob gathered — everyone angry, taunting — wondering how I might escape.
One girl took pity and yelled for me to follow her. We made a fast exit. She pulled me toward an adjacent restroom, and told me to come close so she could tell me a secret. Feeling like this could easily be a trap, but too stunned and confused to object, I inched closer. “Banana bread,” she whispered.
a meditation on personal translation
Tyler Cowen reviews a newly translated collection of van Gogh’s letters.
As for his letters to Theo, these are so full of life that it’s easy for the reader to assume that his brother is getting the “real Vincent.” But is he? Through much of this period, Theo is supporting van Gogh, either by sending him money, by selling his art (or trying to), or both. Writing to Theo, the artist comes across as whining, manipulative, and in careful control of the flow of information. It’s a kind of faux frankness, maybe not untrue but designed to portray a mind in creative ferment and to fit a certain stereotype. There is often first a thanks for money received, a blizzard of reports about what van Gogh is doing and painting, and then at the end a suggestion that even more painting, activity, and creative ferment might be possible if only Theo would do everything to support him. Time and again, the reader wonders just how much van Gogh and his brother trust each other. In the letter of August 14, 1879, for instance, he complains that Theo has advised him to give up his quest to be an artist. “And, joking apart, I honestly think it would be better if the relationship between us were more trusting on both sides,” van Gogh suggests, before apologizing for the possibility that so much of the family sorrow and discord have been caused by him. These look and sound like letters to his brother, but in essence we are reading fund-raising proposals.
The larger review serves as a meditation on personal translation — the way we interpret ourselves for others.
quote out of context
“The military mission of Dutch U.N. soldiers at Srebrenica has been exhaustively studied and evaluated, nationally and internationally,” Jones-Bos said. “There is nothing in these reports that suggests any relationship between gays serving in the military and the mass murder of Bosnian Muslims.”
Every Person in New York
Jason Polan is trying to draw every person in New York.
If I do draw you, you will see yourself (or rather, a drawing that hopefully somewhat resembles you) on this blog that evening.
When the project is completed we will all have a get together.
Right now, we have 100,000 people on the wait list
I remember when I thought the American political system was a legitimate battle of ideas.
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This year, instead of making my traditional stigmata cookies for Easter, my cookies will depict a cross section of a rabbit’s ovaries, complete with chocolate egg fetuses.
