I wasn’t sure how to get intimate with a rabbit cranium, so I went straight for the tongue. The tongue just sits there wiggling half limp between the open jaws of the bunny skull. Man, they’ve got big ol’ chomper teeth! So I carefully kept the jaw parted and put the tongue in my mouth [...]
The Steampunk folder on my desk is filling up fast, and it’s time to lance the boil. We begin with what I consider the ur-Steampunk film, David Lynch’s original cut of Dune. Evidence: the Spice Guild 3rd Stage Navigator – was it Pauline Kael who first nailed this as a flying talking vagina? – and [...]
July 30, 2008
When you get tired of reading all the beautiful words by lousy human beings, and come to the end of your patience with the voluminous indeed inexhaustible mediocrities of goodness, what to do? I suggest – I don’t know. Let him think. And if there are no words to this place give him back the [...]
Although Gore and his wife voiced regrets that they could not accompany their son on his journey, they tried their best to equip Kal-Al for life on his new planet, providing the infant with a Keynote slide-show presentation of all human knowledge, a self-growing crystal fortress from which to monitor glacier shrinkage, and a copy [...]
The only reason I regretted not going to Bonaroo this year. Want your mind blown? Check out their cover of “This Land is Your Land,” courtesy of WFMU.
July 29, 2008
French photographer and street artist JR has just completed his latest epic project, “Los Surcos de la Ciudad” (“The Grooves of the City”) in Spain. Seeking to tell the tale of the ancient Spanish Mediterranean port city of Cartagena in the region of Murcia through the faces of its oldest residents, the 25-year-old artist spent [...]
Young Tom Riddle will be played by Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, nephew of Ralph Fiennes, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. [Link]
In early June 2008, the British Museum and the British Army (Multinational Division), with the full support of the State Board for Antiquities and Heritage in Iraq, undertook a unique joint project to assess damage at a number of archaeological sites in southern Iraq. (via MetaFilter) In The Buried Book, his recent account of the [...]
July 27, 2008
Stories from the past week that stood out. July 17 Viagra is for a medical condition, birth control is a “lifestyle choice.” July 21 “Obama couldn’t go to Iraq if it wasn’t for McCain.” “If they want to rent a bus, show them where they can rent a bus.” “The difference between Obama and Osama [...]
This slam of a supposed Guinness ad on YouTube – it proved to be a fake – reminded me of this authentic Guinness ad.
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I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature. . . . I recollect [Hodge] one day scrambling up Dr. Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction, while my friend smiling and half-whistling, rubbed down his back, and pulled him by the tail; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying 'why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this;' and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, 'but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed.'