Well, as you may all have noticed, I have not, in fact, posted a new Tree of the Week entry. For once, it really isn't my bloody fault. Monday evening, several hours after I made my claim, my laptop suddenly and spontaneously turned off, seemingly of its own accord. It hasn't been able to turn on since, and one can, if one gets up close to the ( Read more... )

1. If you were to take some of your mother's old cassette tapes to an alternate universe where Victorian-era fringe science actually worked, would the "animal magnetism" of mesmerists affect them, or not? For full credit, give real details of the workings of both cassette tapes and mesmerism. Technobabble graded on the basis of creativity ( Read more... )

Today, whilst walking around the neighborhood, I saw a poster that someone had put in the window of their apartment saying "Who is Ron Paul?". This amused me.

There is slack all around you.
There is slack here;
There is slack there;
There is even slack in your inner ear.

Thank you, and good night, Cleveland! We love you!

Loving you since 1986,
--mark

Well, as promised, today I went, with my good friend Mr. Abram, to the Chicago Food Co., a Korean grocer's, at 3333 N. Kimball, and purchased some acorn jelly. The supermarket was a charming place, with all sorts of yummies on display - such as some seaweed, which, whenever I see some for sale, I am sorely tempted to buy, as seaweed is delicious! ( Read more... )

This is just way, way, way too cool for me not to post a link to.

God Bless this great country.

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Wanting to see a live Zeusaphone performance since 1986,
--mark

My thanks again to Mr. Harris, for informing me of the subject of to-day's post. Apparently, his parents, who live in Texas, recently took a brief trip to see this...this thing, which has become the state's newest tourist attraction ( Read more... )

Well, Abram, since we both were curious, and since it is a commonly known dictum that although Curiousity killed the Cat, the Answer brought him back, I supply you with the following link, and, for greater information on the "Father of all Bombs", this link ( Read more... )

Well, mark is posting this early in the morning to announce that he's got his very own "celebrity" crush. (Click the link thar, pilgrims, 'r else we're a-gonna have ta send Big John Wayne over to show ya what-for ( Read more... )

Given that at least one of my readers is a die-hard Russophile, it seems to me that I would be terribly remiss if I didn't post on my Journal a link to this website, a Library of Congress online exhibition of photographs from Tsarist-era Russia. Which wouldn't by itself be terribly interesting, except that these images are in color. Yes, that's ( Read more... )