This is way beyond cool. An egg collected by Charles Darwin during his voyage on HMS Beagle has been rediscovered at Cambridge University. The small dark brown egg, with Darwin’s name written on it, was found by a retired volunteer at the university’s zoology museum. It bears a large crack, caused after the great naturalist put it […]
Archive for the ‘Huh.’ Category
Then, and now
What I wrote in 2004: They still ride in the lock of time, breathing with trillions of others across three wide dimensions and a fourth still unbroken in one direction, and they know they will die but will never die, for this is the feeling that has moved every man from the first human stirring of heart […]
I’m dreaming of a white … uh, Valentine’s Day?
This is just plain weird. Now many, many, many of you might look at this and think oh, winter, so what? Well, this is what the landscape more normally looks like.
I miss the Talking Heads
I really do. I’ve been a fan for more than a quarter century. Eeriest part. “Years ago, I was an angry young man…” Byrne’s presentation, his face. Nice, effective. Eyes closed, then open, then closed again. That video was made twenty years ago. Christ, they all look so young. What does that mean about me?
A bit of a tuneful diversion
Boyz by M.I.A., because I’m not just into weird German Klaus Nomi derivatives. Boyz — M.I.A. Just try to get that hook out of your head. Reminds me, in a good way, of Gwen Stefani.
Because I bet you never.
Nina Hagen. Behold. 60 kilos of HAWT.
RIP, Number Six
Patrick McGoohan has died. The goods: The show:
iTunes pricing: not the news
While the new three-level pricing on iTunes is marginally interesting, of much greater importance is that iTunes is terminating DRM. You can upgrade all the songs in your library purchased from them to DRM-free versions à la iTunes Plus.1 About time, too. DRM is for teh shiteheads. ==== 1. At 94 items to upgrade (singles […]
Queer. And armed.
Just so you know. I hit what I shoot at. Just so you know I’m not gonna be some random fag you get to bash. We will not bow to your ideas. We will not behave as you want us to. Fuck you. We’re liberal — and we are armed. And we will return fire. Just so you know.
A fortunate man, all things being equal
On a somewhat lighter note, a woman in India beheaded a man on Thursday after he tried to assault her. (The article plays coy but we can assume it was an attempted rape.) He’d been stalking her for months, and he came upon her while she was harvesting grass to feed her cattle. He apparently didn’t fully understand […]
What’s a Girl to Do?
Bat for Lashes, 2006. Three takes. The fun part is finding the breaks. Get the album here. I own it. You should too, to be teh kewl. This is what MTV used to do, back when it didn’t suck, kids. H/T Me. (Same vid, diff blog, and actually not me; that’s someone else’s nom de plume.)
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