A friend agreed that the cheetah sculpture is ALL wrong (the body is in motion but the tail? Not so much.) and kindly illustrated what would happen next were this a real cheetah. I think this should be a lesson to us all. Updated to add that comment by said friend and creator of image: [...]
A colleague and I are bringing to work the catalogs we get and I have to say that we are neck in neck for the title of one who receives the weirdest catalogs ever. Today, I had the pleasure of leafing through a catalog from a company called Scully & Scully. Some of the more [...]
Or so an annoying young lady informed me Tuesday afternoon mercifully near the end of an insanely long trip from BWI airport to – last stop of course – my home. Jess was looking at the October 2005 issue of National Geographic Magazine in which there is a feature on the turducken. When I commented [...]
A few weeks ago I stumbled across something wonderful: Blue Ridge Blog. The author is hilarious and — bonus! — a photographer, so she posts many fantastic images of the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. I lived in western North Carolina for about a decade and had a mixed experience. The landscape is undeniably [...]
As I reported in my previous entry, I attended a funeral in Mississippi a couple of days ago. These events involve lots of family in close quarters and the occasional pistol-whipping. As is always the case at least in the south, everyone’s got pets. There were many, many dogs and cats (including the three-legged cat [...]
I just returned from a trip to Mississippi to attend the funeral of a dear friend’s mother. Funerals themselves are not necessarily fun. They are fraught with sadness, awkwardness, and, well, death. They are also prone to become stern rituals that make people stifle yawns and cringes of embarrassment. Not so, this funeral. This family [...]
I present the Bone Eating Snot Flower*, a new species of marine worm that lives off whale bones on the sea floor. “The part of the animal that is exposed to the seawater is covered in a ball of mucus, so they are quite snotty. That is probably a defence mechanism.” You think? (A literal [...]