This delay is due to a serious rail incident which happened earlier
I've still not seen HSM3 but apparently it's admired by Mark Kermode, the Telegraph, and now Steven Wells:My own experience of adolescence ran like this: total nerdy crapness rescued by the dementedly joyous, empowering and politicised rollercoaster ride that was punk rock. Which was just like High School Musical 3 except with better songs and more spitting. And then came the New Romantics. Which was even more like High School Musical 3. And then it was all Adam and the Ants and Two Tone and Dexy's Midnight Runners, and that was exactly like High School Musical 3 except with mass unemployment and politics. And then the Smiths ambled along and everything turned to utter rubbish forever. For the next three decades indie pop was dominated by moping white self-obsessives droning on about how cool it was to be depressed and - by implication - how utterly ghastly it would be to live in a world where everybody was happy and danced all the time and was forever bursting into catchy song.
Yesterday's LJ question of the day was about female hyenas having penises, but I didn't get a chance to answer it. So belatedly here are the edited highlights of the page on spotted hyenas from Wikipedia:
* Because the vaginal opening is at the tip of the female's pseudo-phallus, childbirth is very dangerous and 10% of first time mothers die during labour.
* Baby spotted hyenas eat their brothers and sisters.
* Their milk has more protein than any other animal's milk and more fat than any animal's except polar bears.
* You can't rape a female hyena. At least not in the vagina.
* "In April 1999, a particularly bloody 'war' between lions and hyenas lasting two weeks was reported in Gobele desert of Ethiopia. Lions eventually drove hyenas off the region after killing around 35 hyenas while losing six of their own."
* "The spotted hyena is among the most vocal African mammals, with over 11 different sounds being recorded."
* When they giggle they are afraid.
* Often when hyenas meet "the two hyenas stand head-to-tail and sniff/touch each other's extended phallus for up to half a minute with their back leg cocked".
* Although Aristotle speculated on their sexuality "[i]t is however doubtful he had any first hand experience with spotted hyenas".
* "Through the early days of the Christian era to the end of the Middle Ages, hyenas were thought to annually change sex and habitually rob graves. The former charge was traditionally linked to the Jews. Sir Walter Raleigh, in his 1614 History of the World believed that hyenas were not present in Noah's Ark, as he believed them to be mixed animals like mules, and thus could easily be recreated."
Yesterday's LJ question of the day was about female hyenas having penises, but I didn't get a chance to answer it. So belatedly here are the edited highlights of the page on spotted hyenas from Wikipedia:
* Because the vaginal opening is at the tip of the female's pseudo-phallus, childbirth is very dangerous and 10% of first time mothers die during labour.
* Baby spotted hyenas eat their brothers and sisters.
* Their milk has more protein than any other animal's milk and more fat than any animal's except polar bears.
* You can't rape a female hyena. At least not in the vagina.
* "In April 1999, a particularly bloody 'war' between lions and hyenas lasting two weeks was reported in Gobele desert of Ethiopia. Lions eventually drove hyenas off the region after killing around 35 hyenas while losing six of their own."
* "The spotted hyena is among the most vocal African mammals, with over 11 different sounds being recorded."
* When they giggle they are afraid.
* Often when hyenas meet "the two hyenas stand head-to-tail and sniff/touch each other's extended phallus for up to half a minute with their back leg cocked".
* Although Aristotle speculated on their sexuality "[i]t is however doubtful he had any first hand experience with spotted hyenas".
* "Through the early days of the Christian era to the end of the Middle Ages, hyenas were thought to annually change sex and habitually rob graves. The former charge was traditionally linked to the Jews. Sir Walter Raleigh, in his 1614 History of the World believed that hyenas were not present in Noah's Ark, as he believed them to be mixed animals like mules, and thus could easily be recreated."