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The Time Lapse Project (above) by Xan Padron: Human portraits of cities and neighborhoods around the world. via Webcurios |
Spotify has a 70 item playlist of teen tragedy songs aka “splatter platters”
I have deer on my property and a black cat who is a bit of a queen bee. Luckily she is an indoor cat so there will be none of this weird backyard adulation going on out there. (via everlasting blort)
A history of medieval sleeping cupboards and why they fell out of fashion.
The Goldilocks Killer The gruesome slaughter of an entire family that has become an urban legend in Japan. (via Strange Company)
How to talk to your kid, the hippie
Lines from the Barbie monologue or something I’ve said to another woman in a bar bathroom after three martinis (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)
What a time we live in! Couples Are Hiring Birds of Prey to Be Ring Bearers at Their Wedding (Some falconers advise couples not to use their actual rings, in case the bird flies away.)
I needed some good news this week: Scientists in Berlin announced the first successful embryo transfer in a white rhinoceros using a method that offers hope for saving the northern white rhino subspecies from extinction.
What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back?
I just count the laps 99 year old Canadian swimmer Betty Brussel sets records in the 100- to 104- year-old age class in Saanich, British Columbia.
From food to fonts, a good article about menu trends (New York Times)
The Canine In Conversation What does it mean to compare someone or some thing to a dog? This site explores the ways in which references to dogs are used in vernacular English. via Webcurios
Many years ago I added three or four of these to a dried flower arrangement in my home. A few days later I woke up to this . What a mess!
Bears Discover Fire - A short story by Terry Bisson
You can save a few pennies by making your own brown sugar! Who knew?
UN Tourism is an agency of the United Nations that highlights villages around the world where tourism preserves cultures and traditions, celebrates diversity, provides opportunities and safeguards biodiversity. See the full list of villages from 2023 and previous years at unwto.org.I’m pretty sure this guy lied on his resume via Miss Cellania
The "Spatter Platter" play list sparked a tidal wave of memories. One of the songs has current resonance - the stretch of Malibu road made famous by Jan and Dean known as Dead Man's Curve, is to be reconstructed after 4 young women died in an accident in October of 2023.
ReplyDeleteThat spotify playlist show why 70s teens were despondent.
ReplyDeleteThe Barbie monologue remarks are funny out of context, but not hard to imagine conversations where they would be quite believable.
That’s why the messy things are called cattails, not dogtails.
The Malinois puppy thing is cute... unless you’re wearing that cloth.
xoxoxoBruce