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Like passing a needle through the eye of a camel

  1. Ursi linked me to 249 WAYS TO ENJOY TOAST, and really who can argue with the beauty of toast?
  2. Flood Maps is a Google mashup that shows you what your coastline would look like if the water got higher. Here’s my neighborhood after a 7m increase: BLUB BLUB. Bye bye Huntington, all of old Newport, etc.
  3. In other climate news, Maciej Ceglowski reports on huge fucking glaciers totally fucking collapsing with a fucking gigantic crashing noise. Fuck!
  4. I am playing with Platial and so far I really like it. It’s a mapping site where you can annotate locations with your tags and photos and share them.

Do not, repeat do not put another dime in the jukebox at this time.

  1. The always reliable Exploding Aardvark pointed me today to the best rock video ever made: Bring Me The Head Of Rooster Alfredo, by Kill Lizzie. Wow. (Quicktime)
  2. Via The Null Device, a darkly hilarious list of intellectual property craziness. My favorite: A French director had to pay $1,300 after a character in his film whistled the communist anthem, “The Internationale,” without permission.
  3. New frontiers in advertising: The popcorn machines have been replaced with the Bread of Life.
  4. Now that we’re facing the most serious challenges to infectious disease management ever, it’s a great time to cut the funding of the Centers for Disease Control.
  5. Oh bother! It’s Apocalypse Pooh. (iFilm, insane)
  6. If you’re both morbid and bored (borbid?), I suggest browsing Wikipedia’s excellent List of Unusual Deaths.

Good evening! Hi! Hello! How are y’all? Gonna ask you to do one thing for me tonight, that’s all…

There are times when I suspect that the entire purpose of the existence of the United States of America is to create the strange set of events that led to the career of Aretha Franklin. Now is one of those times.

I would also like to thank the Internet for letting me download the entirety of Don’t Fight The Feeling: The Complete Aretha Franklin Live at the Fillmore West 1971 which is out of print from Rhino Handmade and costs $250.

Music Quest

There was a band in the 1980s called Big Daddy. They did 50s-style covers of top 40 hits. This may sound like a bad idea, but they were great. I especially liked their versions of “Sussudio” and “I want to know what love is”. Their stuff was unsurprisingly on Rhino Records. They had an album called “Cutting Their Own Groove” that was particularly fine.

Anyway their stuff is 581% unavailable. People sell their vinyl albums and their one or two CDs for an average of 70 bucks.

If anyone has digital files of them, or vinyl, or has seen some, let me know! I hunger for novelty.

SO I THOUGHT THEY SAID TOM’S OF MAINE AND IT WAS TOM OF FINLAND NOW MY MOUTHWASH NEED IS CRITICAL

Trader Joe has a nice 2001 Chianti for $5 right now. Goes perfectly with this La Brea Bakery french bread.

Packed Mom off to San Miguel de Allende, MX today, then ate at an IHOP while traffic finished. They had the local FOX affiliate’s morning show on. Almost all of it was about American Idol.

As usual, other people’s problems requiring my help drive me out of myself. I can go from emo self-pity to fireman sliding down the pole pretty quick. It’s not that I like it when other people are in trouble; I just like myself better when I can be helpful.

I’m plotting a curry. It will involve poppy seeds.

Adverbs are my enemy.

It must be time to feed the cat. She’s punching me in the face with a curled-up fist-like paw.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR ON THE INTERNET TONIGHT

ignatz: metaspy

pea: ignatz: bit torrent; coke rat urine leptospirosis; orangeville il interior design; reseller; futsal tournament videos; subaru impreza; grover air horns; romeo and juliet facts; cost of living in sicily; larnelle harris a mighty fortress

  1. Worst. Coke. EVER.
  2. “Grover air horns” sounds like a top 10 Muppets sketch to me.
  3. Someone has Shakespeare homework due.
  4. I am very frightened to look up who “Larnelle Harris” is. You do it.