headline of the day, II
Woman Cuts Off Husband’s Penis with 10-inch Knife
All Rite Now
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” (Hunter S. Thompson)
from the spam
I really like long hugs that don’t get awkward.
What do these people have in common?
(Aside from being mental as anything.)
I just learned via Roger Ebert that I share a birthday with David Foster Wallace.
I already knew about my natal link with Nina Simone, W. H. Auden, Sam Peckinpah, and Anaïs Nin.
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.
The patio
I’m sitting outside on the shaded patio with Rick, smoking cigarettes, and commenting on clusterflock. All feels right with the world. Where are you and what are you doing?
for instance
Police reports indicate Ward wanted his AK47 and .45-caliber pistol back because an Ohio crime family was after him for trying to marry a Macedonian woman who had been held captive on an island in Lake Erie by another crime family.
Wolfgang “Wayang” Güllich
As an addendum to my Nosferatu post, meet Wolfgang, my wayang gulit shadow puppet named after the great climber Wolfgang Güllich who died on the autobahn of all places.
If you want to see what he looks like in the light, you’ll have to look below the fold….
Thanks
I am most thankful that Daryl still loves me after all these years, and that our Mia is healthy and happy. I’m also thankful for (in no particular order): NYT crossword puzzles; Austin; champagne; Mexican food; Mexicans; Mexico; veggie burgers and onion rings at Goldrush Cafe; zinnias; pad thai tofu no egg medium spicy; wavy glass windows; flannel sheets; the New Yorker; clusterflock; Bill Murray; Harper’s; The Daily Show; Vietnam (restaurant, corner of Bryan and Peak); Errol Morris; Cynthia Ashby jackets; Joseph Cornell’s boxes; Vancouver; eggplants; eBay; Arche and Cydwoq shoes; 1940s linens; celluloid birds; days with no plans or obligations.
I’m a lucky woman.
“Slovenia’s Gandhi”
Slovenia’s President is a recluse. Told he had cancer, Janez Drnovsek moved alone to the woods and embraced his inner spirituality. His Government despises him but he is a hero to his people. It is not often that you ask a European head of state whether he has gone loopy, but in the case of Janez Drnovsek, Slovenia’s reclusive President, the question seems almost unavoidable.
Dear Rick,
In addition to the pyramid of gratitude upon which my thanks is based I am thankful for the near completion of a project upon which I have spent, fully, the last year and a half of myself.
Six Ideas That Can Change the World
They are making orange peel plastic and robots that can heal themselves. They are six researchers with six ideas that will one day change the world.
The Short List in No Particular Order
I’m grateful for
air
water
food
family
friends
Danny
y’all
Giant Sea Scorpion
The fossilised remains of a giant claw that once belonged to a sea scorpion roughly 2.5 metres long have been found in Germany. Researchers say the monstrous creature is the largest arthropod ever known – over 30 centimetres bigger than the previous largest specimen of the same species. Simon Braddy at the University of Bristol, UK, and colleagues examined the 46-centimetre-long claw, found in a quarry in western Germany, and believe it belonged to a sea scorpion species called Jaekelopterus rhenaniae that roamed the ocean floors some 390 million years ago. Some palaeontologists believe that J. rhenaniae used its claws to reach out and grab passing animals, such as fish, to eat. “They were the top predators at the time,” says Paul Selden at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, US.
10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets
Some gadgets change the world. Others don’t. These ones, however, are very effective at one thing in particular: teleporting money out of customers’ pockets.
Noah’s Flood and European Farming
An ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Noah’s Ark may have helped the spread of agriculture in Europe 8,300 years ago by scattering the continent’s earliest farmers, researchers said on Sunday. Using radiocarbon dating and archaeological evidence, a British team showed the collapse of the North American ice sheet, which raised global sea levels by as much as 1.4 meters, displaced tens of thousands of people in southeastern Europe who carried farming skills to their new homes.
Renovation Update
I haven’t made much progress lately as I’ve been wrapping up the revised documentary, but here’s a picture of the counters I promised a while ago.
Casual
Grandmother
It makes me mad when people say I didn’t treat Grandmother well when she was sick. Maybe it was because of that one time I dropped her in the hallway when she had to go to the bathroom and I just stood there and laughed and laughed.
Warhol Eating
This was done, incidentally, by Jørgen Leth, one of the two directors in the fantastic film (I just saw it a few days ago) The Five Obstructions.
I Want Half of the Church
The estranged wife of a pastor claims her husband blended his professional and personal finances so thoroughly that his church should be counted as an asset in their divorce.
Vacuum Mouth
It was one of those eureka moments, when the scientists realized they had discovered a new dinosaur with mouth parts designed to vacuum up food. Paul Sereno who discovered the 110 million-year-old plant eater in the Sahara Desert that didn’t eat its food but vacuumed it up off the sea floor, has named the elephant-sized animal, Nigersaurus taqueti, an acknowledgment of the African country Niger and a French paleontologist, Philippe Taquet.
Hypothetically
To whom would you forward your spam?
From Aaron
this morning on PRAISE 92.1
on the crazy christian bus driver’s radio.
Yolanda Adams: God is so cool, y’all. Take heed.
so it finally happened…
