Cat 1, Dog 0

From the guy who brought us The Rings of Earth comes the genius of The Anti-Water Device.

How To Be Topp: Ding-dong Farely Merily For Xmas

Children's letters to God

Teaser trailer for Reign of Death avec le Noel Clarke.

2001: A Who Odyssey

Progressive Rock in 5 Minutes

Battle of the sexes - one gene keeps us either male or female, scientists find

DNA's guardian gene found in placozoans. The common genetic heritage of life on Earth ever fills me with glee. We share genes with yeast, starfish, you name it - the same basic toolkit, recycled and remodelled over and over again.

Homosexual selection: The power of ( Read more... )

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/12/19/the-satanic-cosmology-of-jack-chick/Read more... )

18 particularly ridiculous prog-rock album covers. I think Tarkus is cute. Someone should make a stuffed toy version.

How and Why Wonder Books: source of all knowledge and wisdom.

Via peteyoung: Teddy bears in space. For real! More pix!

Dr. Lazer Rage, in which Christopher Eccleston is quite brilliant.

Oh, that's weird. You know how falling in love makes pop lyrics suddenly seem meaningful? Apparently the same is true for Obama's victory. I'm just listening to Styx's Rockin' The Paradise, which might as well have been written about current events.

( The lyrics, for you uncultured types )

Rummaging through my ancient files (it started as a puzzled attempt to find Tigers so I can get on with the fic I owe people) I've turned up all sorts of random stuff, much of which is still online:

Advice on Novel Writing by Crawford Kilian

List: MST3K Rush References

From the alt.support.depression FAQ, How can I help myself get through ( Read more... )

From May: Philip Glenister at the Genesis DVD premiere

From June: Facebook changes luck for lonely cat

Also from June: Opinion piece on the demise of the Australian Democrats

Also also from June: Escapee caught in air-con duct

From February 1940: Careless Talk Costs Lives posters

jb-wolfsies overhears a cheeky tram driver.

insidian is starstruck and tongue-tied ( Read more... )

Further to my previous posting and discussion therewith, a couple of my more eccentric responses to prog rock.

( Here be teenage art )

As a (not very much) younger woman, I would often assign wild SFnal meanings to quite straightforward song lyrics, simply because I'd missed the point. When I was fourteen, Pink Floyd's The Wall was a science fiction epic of mind control and secret police. Yes was particularly prone to this, as often their lyrics are incomprehensible - but not ( Read more... )

Most of the lyrics on Rush's album Signals are rubbish.