Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America
My same friend Susan who brought us the critically acclaimed Omega Institute in Your Pants, 2010 edition today supplied the following list, from the book Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America by David L. Wagner, Dale F. Schweitzer, J. Bolling Sullivan, and Richard C. Reardon:
Sordid Snout
The Herald
Feeble Grass Moth
Dead-wood Borer
The Betrothed
The Little Wife
Serene Underwing
The Consort
Dejected Underwing
Inconsolable Underwing
Tearful Underwing
Sad Underwing
The Penitent
Sappho Underwing
Youthful Underwing
Darling Underwing
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Miss Lucy
is becoming Mrs. Lucy today. On Thursday, I helped her get her hen on, in a swanky hotel bar.
I’m immensely honored to be attending her and Ross’s wedding, and the succeeding reception-crawl. I will bring a real camera to that.
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I saw Deron in Oslo
At Akershus Castle.
Clusterflockstock 3: Outside the Feed Sack
I’d buy that app.
Fuck it I’ve heard enough, I’m going to make some killer android app that listens to every word you hear and uses Google’s voice recognition shit and some semantic networks and logistic regression crap and fucking starts chirping at you whenever it detects someone is hitting on you, make it look like an incoming call from captain obvious or something. It make take a while to accumulate enough training data to detect every subtle hint but it should pick this one up pretty easily. #
One of the 5,661 comments on From Male Redditors: What are some hints females gave you, but you didn’t get them until after you had your chance?
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Trees cocooned in spider webs after flooding in Sindh, Pakistan
(Via @josephpearson)
“PBS will never be defunded.”
“Proof:”
Tweet of the day, honorable mention
Specifically, he’s been tweeting gorgeous photos from this collection all afternoon.
Cat-Library™
This would solve all my problems. All of them.
(Via Dylan, who got it from Charlie)
Kasoundi
Select your mix of chillies and slice them up. Separate the seeds from the flesh if you want a milder outcome. Kasoundi is not a macho hot-sauce contest. Avoid the temptation to construct an edible inferno, because all those subtle flavours will be lost. Look, you should just throw out the seeds.
The Order of Myths
A film by Margaret Brown. Trailer:
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From a letter I got
My car busted again. Well, not busted. I never replaced the catalytic convertor last year, and then the ignition, which I replaced myself started acting bad. And the starter. But it is all fixed again.
I got a 2011 Muscle Car Calendar from the shop.
Last year I had the clutch replaced in December so I had a muscle car calendar this year too.
That was a 12 hundred dollar calendar, but this year it is a 9 hundred dollar calendar.
The economy IS getting better.
Miss Lucy Foley, up-and-coming diva
Lucy (and Ross! and some friends of theirs) had a gig in NYC on Friday, at which they Tore. It. Up. I commemorated the occasion with a bunch of wobbly pictures. Fortunately, Lucy’s so gorgeous and has such poise that either of my cats could have taken a whole roll of good ones of her.
Once again, ladies and gents, you can hear and buy Lucy’s album, Copenhagen, at lucyfoley.com. So how about you go do that?
Sisu, the Finns’ favorite word
Because it’s long, I have set this video to start at the discussion of sisu; it’s worth watching all the way from the beginning, however.
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Murdered Kansas Abolitionist David Hoyt’s Bloodstained Map and Condolence Letter
What he was doing in the area is not entirely clear. Some reports indicate that he was attempting to negotiate a truce with proslavery elements; others suggest that he was “testing” the intentions of Southerners in Lawrence by entering a proslavery gathering unarmed.
The Cowan’s Auctions copywriter continues,
Included with the lot is a 3pp letter, 5 x 8″, Leominster, 11 Sept. 1856. The letter is from James F. Legate to the parents of David Hoyt expressing his condolences and trying offer some solace in the idea that their son gave his life …that Freedom might live….Take comfort for he died that Liberty might come to the oppressed people of Kansas…. Incredibly, he also asks Hoyt’s parents if they know anyone else who will come carry on the fight: I have been laboring ever since in the State to get a party to go back with me. Has he no friends to go & do battle for which he fell a [martyr]? If so I’ll take them to the spot where he yielded his young, useful life….
Both map and letter sold last month for a mere $705.
Possible moral of the story: Do not “test” the intentions of Southerners while unarmed.
(Via SC.)
Naomi Harris: America Swings
A friend’s paraphrasing of this episode of WFMU’s radio show Too Much Information from last night:
I was listening to the radio and Benjamen Walker (the host guy) was talking about some photo on the playlist page, and so I glanced over to look at the page I didn’t look at when I opened it two hours earlier. Just then he said to the photographer he was interviewing, “The people in your photos of American swingers don’t look like average Americans; they are, like, 300 pounds overweight, white, kinda crazy and distracted, and, well, really, they look more the Tea Party than any other group of Americans, even if they are crawling around their living rooms having group sex while they watch football on TV and drink beer.” As I was glancing at the photo, the photographer generally confirmed that, yes, the people in her photos were, as a rule, in the Tea Party.
I did not need that. Nooooooo…
The photographer being interviewed is Naomi Harris. If you are over 18, or under 18 with the ability to sense a trick question, you can page through her book, America Swings, at the Taschen site.
Please note that just because you can does not mean that you should. I’m just saying.
Marcel Broodthaers: Interview with a Cat (1970)
POSTED
The Cooler Bandits
My friend Bruno is producing this:
Maybe you can help?
The Hole
AKA New York City’s Ninth Ward:
30 Feet below sea level, mafia dumping ground, and home of The Black Cowboy Federation. The Hole is one of the most mysterious and uncharted locations in New York City. “The Hole”—a film by Courtney Sell and Billy Feldman. Coming soon.
Dear Clusterflock,
What is this thing?
It’s for sale at The Cure, an East Village thrift store, but nobody seems to know what it is. Suggestions include
- a samovar
- a microwave from ancient Egypt
- a very, very old fashioned water cooler
- the top half of Lady Gaga’s next outfit
- a Dalek incubator
- a charcoal grill
Other notable items from among The Cure’s offerings include Ellen and Arthur’s lovely wedding album, a vintage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fanny pack, a drag-queen-sized excellent silver gown, a cool little bookcase, and this, for Cindy.
How to Explain It to My Parents?
A documentary video series “in which 5 abstract artists explain to their mom and dad what their work is all about,” by Lernert & Sander.
How to explain it to my parents – Bart Julius Peters from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo.
Do your parents understand what you do? No matter what my current job title may be, my mom has a strange compulsion to tell people I’m an editor—one of the few jobs in publishing that I haven’t had and don’t want. Maybe I should make a video.
(Via Good, via somebody else. Perhaps it was you? @the99percent)
“Do we know any other fuckin’ Beatles songs?”
(Via SC)
Bigmouth Strikes Again
A cappella, this time:
06 Bigmouth Strikes Again by blackpiano
Janice Whaley’s The Smiths Project: “Layered vocal arrangements of every Smiths song.”
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