“I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing?)” by Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, Ed Robertson, Barenaked Ladies & The Wexford Gleeks
Does this sound schmaltzy? Usually things with a full choir and a key change after the bridge sound schmaltzy. I honestly can’t tell - judgement just flew right out the window. I think from the point at which Hadfield held his guitar pick up to the camera and left it there, hanging in zero gravity.
We are living in the future. And this is the future we are living in.
Swann told me while staying at my house that he does not identify himself as a psychic. He called himself, “a consciousness researcher,” and said that most people can be taught to be Remote Viewers, although some people have more innate ability than others. Swann has stated, “I don’t get tested, and I only work with researchers on well-designed experiments.” He was pleasant gentleman with a great smile and intuitive abilities that provided the US government with significant intelligence information on the Soviet Union and Extraterrestrials.
The event is supposed to have taken place last March, in the days immediately following Anthony’s sudden and untimely death on Friday, March 2. The earliest full account of it that my Google search turns up is a post by one Tanya Waterworth to IOL News, website of the South African news agency Independent Online. The post is dated Saturday, March 10:
“For 12 hours the huge beasts slowly made their way through the Zululand bush until they reached the house of the man they loved – to say good-bye.
“That, according to the son of conservationist and adventurer Lawrence Anthony, who passed away while on a business trip to Johannesburg last Friday, was the profoundly moving sight at Thula Thula Private Reserve this week. …
“There are two elephant herds at Thula Thula. According to his son Dylan, both herds arrived at the house after Anthony’s death.
“‘They had not visited the house for a year-and-a-half and it must have taken them about 12 hours to make the journey,’ said Dylan.
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From David Halperin’s report on the funeral elephants held for conservationist and elephant-friend Lawrence Anthony.
See especially the first comment below the post.
From the Department of Awesome Hybrid Animals comes the work of French artist Julien Salaud, who has made a name for himself by carefully combining parts of different animals to create taxidermic hybrids like the awesome Feathered Piranha, or Vieux Piraï Emplumé, seen here.
As awesome as the spectacle would be, let’s be thankful that piranha-birds don’t actually exist. Agressive, chompy fish flying through the air sound even scarier than killer bees.
Visit Designboom to view several images of the creation of the Julien Salaud’s colourful frankenfish.
— I’ll let you all Google this one.
Please, click the link to see the photo. This is why I love Florida.
This is what I was reading during breakfast.
Archbold consumed “dozens of roaches and worms” during the “Midnight Madness” contest, which drew nearly 30 contestants, the sheriff’s office said. An autopsy will determine the cause of death.
The store owner insists it wasn’t the food.
Discoid roaches, Siegel told the Miami Herald, are “eaten by people all over the world.” The roaches served up at the contest were domestically raised “for exotic pet feed,” Siegel said, adding that they were “pure, clean protein.”
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from “Spirits: Good, Evil, Persuadable”, Fortean Times #289, by Jen Ogilvie.
A neak ta is a Cambodian guardian spirit, usually of a village, but sometimes of rivers, forests or other natural sites.
— Warren Ellis, from “How to See the Future”, found via Liminal Nation.
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