The final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour will be carrying baby squids into space.
I’m sure that both Margaret Atwood and the staff of Space Squid are delighted at the news.
Now If They Could Only Make Them Talk
May 16th, 2011Man 1, Nature 0
May 12th, 2011At lot of people, faced with record floods, would leave.
Then there’s this guy. He built a sandbag wall, then expanded it to a moat and a berm, with pump in the moat, all the way around his house and barn in DeValls Bluff, Arkansas. It’s not a work of particular complexity, but it works, and it looks like it took a Herculean effort to build.
Bonus: At about 1:30 into the second video, it sounds like Boomhauer from King of the Hill is in the boat with them…
Water Falling From the Sky
May 12th, 2011Attention Austinites: That wet stuff falling from the sky is called “rain.” I know you may not have seen these in some time, but it’s a naturally occurring phenomena.
It should also help ease our extreme drought.
In celebration, here’s Ladysmith Black Mombazo with “Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain.”
“Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says”
May 11th, 2011This is pretty much pitch-perfect. For the cherry on top, page through the hundreds of comments…
(Hat tip: Instapundit. )
I Have the Touch
May 11th, 2011Continuing the Peter Gabriel theme, here’s the version of “I Have the Touch” remixed by Robbie Robertson for the Phenomenon soundtrack. This is availble on iTunes…but only if you buy the full album. Thanks, but I don’t like it that much.
Hat Trick Shot Glass Window Treatment Center Post Office Space
May 10th, 2011A hat I signed (among many, many others) at the World Horror Convention is up for sale at a charity auction on eBay for horror writer Bryan Smith, whose wife recently died after a long illness.
And let’s face it it, the line “Signatures include: Peter Straub, William F. Nolan, Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jack Ketchum, Lawrence Person, Brian Keene, Joe Hill, John Picacio, Bill Crider, John Skipp,” etc., is pretty flattering to one’s ego, since not even Your Humble Egomaniac would put those names in that order…
(Hat tip for structure of the subject line here.)
Attention German TV: Star Trek Forces Were Not Involved in the Killing of Osama Bin Laden
May 10th, 2011“Yesterday a German news station had a major image fail. While covering the US Navy SEALs operation to kill Osama bin Laden they mistook a Star Trek fan-made emblem for the Maquis for the actual SEAL Team Six emblem.”
Evidently the Klingon skull and bat’leth blades simply weren’t a sufficient giveaway…
Vaguely related: Star Wars Propaganda posters.
(Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Howard Waldrop and I Review Thor
May 9th, 2011The films seems to be getting good reviews overall. Howard and I are, ahem, less enthused…
Brownout Fixed
May 6th, 2011I guess it was local to my house. And I now have a concrete casement previously covered with dirt in the corner of the backyard I never realized was there before…
Peter Gabriel: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Live in NYC, With Robert Fripp on Guitar
May 6th, 2011Continuing the Peter Gabriel weekend theme, I had a vinyl bootleg of Gabriel live in New York in 1978 with Robert Fripp playing guitar on an absolutely blistering version of “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.”
Well guess what? That’s on YouTube as well:
This is another track I’d happily purchase from iTunes…