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The Moscow Cat Theater.

Susan Boyle, from the latest episode of Britain's Got Talent.

Embedding has apparently been disabled for this clip, but you must -- MUST!!!! -- click this link and watch the video at YouTube. And watch the whole thing, too; don't skip over the intro and exit to watch only her performance in the middle.

Kate Harding at Shapely Prose says it best: ( Read more... )

Some friends of mine took me out to dinner last night, as a thank-you for some art work I did for them. And Oh. My. Gawd! I am still basking in the afterglow (or logy from digesting... heh...) of the experience.

They took me to this place called Texas de Brazil, a Brazilian-style steakhouse. They'd told me all about it before, so I thought I ( Read more... )

If you're feeling down, watch this video. It make me happy, and I'm not even sure why.

Click to view

The story behind the video, and the guy who's dancing in it.

I was lying in bed last night round abouts midnight or so, listening to the radio and trying to snooze off, when I heard an owl outside my window! In all the years I've lived... well hell, anywhere, I have never heard an owl in the wild! I've seen them, and I've heard them in movies and once or twice at the zoo, but never in the wild, much less ( Read more... )

Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize!

( Re-elect President Gore!!! )

I found the song I was looking for the other day. It's called "Let It Roll," and it is one of the catchiest songs ever -- Big Band swing meets Southern rock. I just didn't know it was Little Feat who did it until I finally googled it last week ( Read more... )

I've been playing "Mix-N-Match" with my MP3 player and YouTube again, here at work (quick recap -- no sound on the computer here at work, so I match up songs I'm listening to on my MP3 player with the videos I play on YouTube), and I ran across this wonderful video for the song "No Rain" by Blind Melon ( Read more... )

I had a horse, back when I was a preteen and into my early teens. For years I had been fanatically horse-crazy, collecting statues and pictures, reading books and magazines, and generally obsessing over the beasties. My best friend back then was the one who infected me... she actually had a horse, a real live one, and even when her parents ( Read more... )