Take the survey.
(Results may be used for my next draft of an article about whale phobia. You can read a miniature version here.)
Do I know you?
What would you like to know?
November 26, 2012
Are you afraid of whales?
For, as they say, SCIENCE.
October 11, 2012
Huge eyeball washes ashore in Pompano Beach
Please, click the link to see the photo. This is why I love Florida.
August 26, 2012
"The great print die-off of ’08 and ’09 may have plateaued, but the industry had changed forever. All the newspapers in the city were culling their ranks like so much bacon fat, surplus hacks were being tossed off into journo purgatory along with any remaining editorial scruples. Meanwhile, magazine and website publishers had all simultaneously come to the same conclusion as Arianna Huffington: They could make considerably higher profits if they didn’t pay their writers and kept all the money for themselves."
— from Advertising for People Who Don’t Like Advertising, Douglas Haddow’s terrifying glimpse at the future of branding.
August 20, 2012
Mad Monster Party? Making of a Classic. Phyllis Diller, RIP.
March 27, 2012
keepyourpebbles is a cetaphobe. This audio is her experience confronting a giant replica of a blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History.
It is both poignant and hysterically funny.
Audio from Friday’s visit to That Damn Whale. I recorded the whole day, which I spent steadily approaching the whale and viewing it from every terrifying angle. This section is from my first attempt to move from the Hall of Biodiversity into the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life itself.
Cetaphobes: Can you relate? Take the survey here.
February 19, 2012
Guess why I’m so happy to see you!
(Answer if you click the image above.)
February 9, 2012
This Pap Tokoloshe Sells Like Hot Cakes… for R15 000 to R25 000, South Africa’s Daily Sun.
For the uninitiated, a tokoloshe (as cited by Die Antwoord, cleaning up lyrics for Letterman) is a hairy little mischief-making goblin. They’re often very hungry.
And pap is corn mush, like polenta, but firm enough that you can sculpt it with a spoon. Or your hands.
(Geek note: Pap is also called putu, which is what, if you listen closely, Jabba the Hutt threatens to mash Luke into when he comes to rescue Han’s frozen body. Because Jabba was speaking a Bantu language.)
Muthi means “medicine” - but can be used to mean “magic.”
And R15 000 is about $1,973 today.
January 9, 2012
Flesh-eating Film Reels.
Actually, they’re tape - that’s why they’re afraid of magnets. Degaussing hurts.
January 6, 2012
November 2, 2011
![A young ewe lead the dancing with an aging panther
From Un autre monde (another world), written and illustrated by Jean-jacques Grandville, Paris, 1844.
(Source: archive.org.)
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A young ewe lead the dancing with an aging panther
From Un autre monde (another world), written and illustrated by Jean-jacques Grandville, Paris, 1844.
(Source: archive.org.)
[from oldbookillustrations]
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