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Must-see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1JZ9O15280
Incredible sand-painting performance, via MetaFilter. You have GOT to see this. I don't even understand any of the language or content and I was about to cry like some of the audience members.
I was about to say that jinglymushroom could maybe help out with some translations, but my observation of the non-Cyrillic ( Read more... ) -
From your friendly neighborhood consumer health librarian
I was just replying to a friend's post regarding potentially suspect information she received about the swine flu, and thought, hey, I should post this publicly where anyone can read it.
Here are sources of GOOD (accurate, up-to-date, scientific, unbiased*) information about the flu:
U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) page on swine flu: http ( Read more... ) -
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I am so angry I could scream ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes the gimmick doesn't mask the quality
Fredo Viola's cluster duets (and trios, etc.) are always amazing, but this time he's concocted your basic really good song,"Red States"--which he presents here as three simultaneous performances in three countries. Sort of a distributed cluster...
"Red States" by Fredo Viola, the English group I Am Your Autopilot, and French flutist Scalde -
Why do I feel so at home?
I just got, and responded to, my first e-mail inquiry about joining the SCA since I became Baronial Chatelaine (newcomer welcomer) Sunday night. (That didn't take long...!) Oh, and an LJ-related note: the person who e-mailed me found a post I put on the madisonwi LJ group maybe a year ago about the SCA, and that's what led her to be interested in joining ( Read more... ) -
It really is all about the slushies
The verdict on the cherry creamslush from Sonic: tasty and not heavy like a shake (though I am purposely avoiding looking up the calorie load). Not strongly-flavored, but then if I liked strongly-flavored, I'd have gotten lime. (Next time, maybe.)
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listening to "Fringe - Pinetop Seven" on Blip
A character sketch in a song. Alt-country.