My head, all this week.
Head full of bees! I’m sure I made at least a few anatomical errors here and there; for example my brain is probably about 80 times that size, like, at least.
When soul-crushing, lung-squeezing depression gets you down, get yourself down to sketch comedy tv! It will always see you through.
WORD.
In their new video for “Calamity Song,” The Decemberists recreate Enfield Tennis Academy’s round of Eschaton from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
David Foster Wallace on Fresh Air
Pretentious and precious!
Clothing designed for women bodies? How silly!
This reminds me of Project Runway-style shows where contestants will have a challenge to make clothes for real people and they whine about how hard it is to make clothes for those pesky breast/butts/arms.
A helpful guide for Banana Republic as they attempt to profit off of Mad Men: The one on the left is a Woman. The one on the right is a Girl. High empire waists and cap sleeved lace dresses are designed for 12-year-olds to look like 12-year-olds.
“As soon as winter came, in squares and public places all over the land, ice hills were erected, usually near a river. They were constructed of wood — a narrow long-legged temporary stage that rose to a height of 30 or 40 feet and sometimes even higher. The platform, to which one ascended by wooden stairs, was supported by tree trunks and wooden pillars. Two such platforms were constructed to face each other and were set parallel so that the force of sledding down one would carry a rider all the way down to the steps of the other… Like the side of an abrupt cliff, the slope was at first very steep. It then flattened out at the bottom, with sand at the very end… to slow down the flying sleds. The whole surface of the course was covered with large blocks of ice, frozen shining and smooth in a few seconds from torrents of water thrown over them.”
THE LAND OF THE FIREBIRD: THE BEAUTY OF OLD RUSSIA by Suzanne Massie, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1980
Discovered via a list of dangerous theme park rides. It could probably be the heat-madness talking, but we need to construct one of these, like, yesterday. The combination of ice and peril sounds like a most refreshing experience!
Some items from the past few weeks. Sadly, adhering to a sensible budget meant not coming home from the market with several hundred lilies, which would have made for better pictures.
And skinny pants die.
The bell bottom is born again.
As a primary shareholder in Birthing Hips Inc., I’ve nothing but applause for this transition.
Peter Salcher, Rendgenogram ruku barunice Josephine Mollinary Vranyczany, snimljen 20. veljace 1896. u Rijeci na predavanju o rendgenu.
Salcher je pak, na poticaj znamenita fizicara Ernsta Macha, uspio uciniti vidjivim strujanje zraka oko ispaljena zrna i naravno, samo zrno koje se krece nadzvucnom brzinom. To je izazvalo takvu nevjericu u znanstvenom svijetu da je Salcher, unatoc objavljenim fotografijama svojih snimaka, podvrgnut ostroj krtici koju je poslije ironicno opovrgao.
Peter Salcher jos se neko vrijeme bavio znanstvenim pokusima s fotografijom, a vec se pocetkom devedesetih, posve usputno, zabavljao novim tehnickim otkricima koja su tehnoloski naslijedila fotografiju - Edisonovim fonogratom i kinetoskopom, poslije i rendgenom, pa je upravo on napravio i prve rendgenografije (1896), svega mjesec dana nakon Rontgenova prvoga javnog prikazivanja izuma. Bile su to vjerojatno prve rendgenografije na sirem podrucju austrougarskoga juga.
I’d like to write a story of what I imagine is written here about these hands.
Squid are born in a ballet dance, as little lights.
On sweltering days the Illinois sky looks a bit like that view of the ocean’s surface from under the water - dense and shifty.
Riddle Me This: Why is a piece on the vuvuzela the third most popular article on the NPR website right now?
Hell, why wouldn’t it be?
