i just spent some quality time totally unexpectedly telling rich the coworker about cynthia ann parker. this makes even less sense if i tell you i came into the conversation when he and the other architect were talking about michael jackson's nose.
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cynthia ann parker. someone write her story so i don't have to.)
sort of in that vein,
verb_noire has put out a
submission call for ya retellings of non-european folktales for an anthology. if this is your kind of thing, check it out. sounds interesting.
zombie ants - this fungus in thailand basically zombifies the ants to get the ants to move to a better spot for them to die. (ie, a better spot for the fungus to grow.) i am CREEPED OUT by this.
i'm pretty sure there was something else i wanted to share, but i'm too wigged out by the zombie ants.