The National Geographic Photo of the Day. Good picture. Good, good picture. Actually, the coolest shot of the bridge I've seen yet is in a book I found this summer. At the Borders where I work there was always a display of local photography books right across from the counters, and when business was slow I would pick one out and look through it ( Read more... )

No one told me The Decemberists' new EP The Tain was actually an abstract retelling of The Tain. Or rather, Táin Bó Cúalnge. The Cattle Raid of Cooley, the most famous of the Ulster Cycle tales, basically the Irish Celtic Aeneid or Iliad. [Basically Queen Medb of Connaught invades Ulster with intentions of stealing its sacred bull, and 17-year- ( Read more... )