20 New Lines from The Epic of Gilgamesh Discovered in Iraq, Adding New Details to the Story | Open Culture

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...these extra lines that not only add to the poem’s length, but have now cleared up some of the mysteries in the other chapters. These lines come from Chapter Five of the epic and cast the main characters in a new ( Read more... )

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Or, Star Trek II in under 2 minutes, in opera form. Awesome.

I laughed so hard Steve came downstairs to check on me.

Exploring Halifax’s secret underground world | The Chronicle Herald

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My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Twenty-one years ago, on Valentine's Day, disaster struck the Hannigar Mine in Valentine Bluffs, trapping five men below the surface. Harry Warden, the sole survivor, driven mad by the experience, was committed for a year only to return and take his revenge on those responsible, leaving a warning for the town never to ( Read more... )

Steve got this for me as a birthday cake. Suffice to say, I was not expecting it.
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The Call of Cthulhu

While sorting through his late uncle's affairs, a man learns of dreadful secrets, clues pointing to the existence of a horror beneath the sea.


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...I appear not to have recced this to everyone yet.

"This" is Monster of the Week, a comic that recaps the X-Files in twelve panels - every Friday, just like X-Files when it originally aired. (My weekly ritual, for a long time, was X-Files, nachos, and Outer Limits. Good times!) It's by the same artist who did Narbonic and Skin Horse, which I ( Read more... )

Rush was AMAZING! :D Steampunk themed set and animations, and pyrotechnics, and a string ensemble for the Clockwork Angels set -  they performed every song on the album save two: BU2B and Seven Cities of Gold. YYZ was also played with the string ensemble in the background. Um, yes. Yes indeed ( Read more... )