February 2012
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“Jellybean Wine” is a catchy damn...
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Why is tumblr called tumblr?
Acrobats? Gemstones?
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“This same sensory communion with place must be cultivated in regions that are...”
– Stephen Grasso, Smoke and Mirrors, part VII, “Great North Wood.”
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“One Glorious Day (1922)
Psychologist Professor Botts (Will Rogers) is chairman...”
– - from Weird and Wonderful Movies That You’ll Never Get to See, on io9.com.
As a side note to this, not only may this missing film have inspired the genre of “science fiction” (thank you, Mr. Ackerman), but I’d be stunned if it wasn’t related to Eckankar, the...
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“The weapon of Angelmaker is named the Apprehension Engine and serves one...”
– http://www.welovethisbook.com/features/harkaway-world’s-end (via harkaway)
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“Per intercessionem Sancti Blasii, episcopi et martyris, liberet te Deus a malo...”
– By the intercession of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God free you from illness of the throat and from any other sort of ill. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
(It’s throat-blessing day.)
January 2012
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Watch“The Baptism of Jajo,” Stan Ridgway + Pietra Wexstun.
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WatchI want there to be a Journal of Guadalcanal Diary Studies.
southernstudiesatuofm:
Graduate Student Camilla Aikin just completed an independent study with MDP’s Andy Harper on the Southern independent music scene in the 1980s. The class, which consisted of research, writing, and oral history interviews culminates in a short film, “We Didn’t Get Famous,” Southern Music and Identity in the...
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RIP, James R. Arnold →
The man who made NASA do science while racing to the moon. I mean, it could have been just a race.
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“The gigantic swine, which the local press has dubbed “Pig-zilla,” is...”
– From “PIG-ZILLA! Redneck kills 1,200-pound mutant porker!” by Ron Wintergreen, available in the Weekly World News insert in Sun, on sale February 27, 2012.
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WatchI made a thing for a thing.
I had help, too.
I made this thing out of the abyss and phosphorescence and jets of superheated, inky water. Also, tape recorders and rusted strings.
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WatchJonathan Mann has apparently been writing a song a *day* for the last four years.
This is what he wrote for Song Fu 2012’s bioluminescence challenge.
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RIP, Arfa Karim Randhawa, 16-year-old computer... →
There’s a park named after her in Pakistan.
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Sun Tabloid Reveals (Faux) ‘SECRET INDIAN... →
Every word true. Every word. (Except the typo.)
[from adailyriot]
A news tabloid of the type that favors headlines like FAMOUS PSYCHIC’S HEAD EXPLODES has published what it claims are “secret Indian predictions” that can now be revealed.
The Sun, a weekly tabloid published by American Media, Inc. of New York, proclaims on the front page of its January 9 issue: “Stunning PROPHECIES that...
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“Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments...”
– President Eisenhower, 17 January 1961. The whole speech is worth a read - or a listen (audio at the link). Especially the bit about government contracts becoming a replacement for intellectual curiosity.
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“This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this...”
– The Rev. Martin Luther King (via merlin).
Someday, brothers and sisters. Someday.
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““Yes, if we brought the creature back alive, I could sell her to a big aquarium...”
– From “Japanese Fishing Tycoon Vows: I’ll Turn Loch Ness Monster into Sushi!”.
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Word of the Day
Want.
nyctograph (n.)
A device invented by Charles Dodgson (‘Lewis Carroll’) with which a person can record ideas (esp. those remaining after sleep) at night in bed without fully waking up. Read more.
[via keepyourpebbles]
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“Mulling over this question a few days ago, I started making a list of the more...”
– - John Michael Greer is concerned about the magical implications of our dependence on petroleum and high finance.
[found via]
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White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars →
Not the headline one expects to read in Wired.
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“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that...”
– M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All - Forbes (via mediafuturist)
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Not by the Direct Method.: The best Chinese... →
Enthusiastically seconded.
Entry from my forthcoming (this year, yay!) Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes:
Cha Erlang. Cha Erlang appeared in Zhina Gelunbo (1909). Cha Erlang, who is also known as Shizixue (Lion’s Blood), is a Zhongguo Tanxianjia, or “Professional Chinese Explorer.” Cha goes on a long journey of “exploration and adventure,” which includes discovering Sea Dragon Island near Denmark...
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“First, families have to pay back their debt. Governments don’t — all they need...”
– This really seems like a problem with language. If it’s debt that doesn’t have to be repaid (per se), then it’s not really debt. It’s some other kind of lack, isn’t it? And I’ve often wondered what happened to the WWII debt in the 1950s….