Hello readers. You may have gathered from my posts this week that this week has been officially declared Nick Cave week. So in keeping with this theme, I am here to tell you that Nick Cave is on Fresh Air today, and that you better tune in to your local NPR station and listen.
There’s a […]
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Nick Cave Fresh Air Interview
Published by September 26th, 2008 in Music, McCain, Asides, Nick-Cave, earworms, Fresh Air and Pretenders. 0 CommentsOnline Pharmacy
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A few weeks ago, Rose — who is 91 — went with her daughter Elizabeth, 52, to enjoy a Christmas Eve cocktail at Von’s Grand City Cafe, a martini bar on Pine Street in downtown Seattle’s shopping district.
Rose didn’t bring along her purse. She’s been forgetful of late, leaving things behind. Her daughter was buying […]
Drink some absinthe today, if you can find some.
Oscar Wilde said: “After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”
Albert Maignan painted it.
Find out […]
According to the Register, women around the world are mailing their panties to leaders in Myanmar to protest the militant crackdown on citizens…
Ladies’ smalls sap generals’ vital energy
- By Lester Haines
“The Burmese military is facing an unexpected threat from female opponents to its regime - a deluge of panties dispatched to the country’s embassies […]
Shit Bean Coffee and Maggot Cheese
Published by July 18th, 2007 in Coffee, Asides, food & drink and cheese. 0 CommentsI drink a lot of coffee, so when I come across an article about it I usually read it. Last week the Los Angeles Times ran a story about Indonesian coffee made from beans extracted from civet dung.
I’d heard about this supposedly delicious $600/pound kopi luwak coffee before with a flavor that “has a top […]
I came across this photo while looking for images to put on a cover for a 1957 compilation CD I’m making to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of the parents of a friend of mine.
What could be more American than the combination of a mushroom cloud with a pinup girl?
For more information about the woman […]
Born on this day in 1903.
Quotes:
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a […]
More Mind Control Parasites
Published by May 27th, 2007 in Uncategorized, Miscellaneous, Evil, Asides, biology, mind control and parasites. 0 CommentsAccording to researchers at the University of Hong Kong, there is a species of barnacle (Rhizocephalan Sacculina) of which the female will invade the body of male and female crustaceans (crabs in particular) in order to distribute their nutrient absorbing, branching root structure, mature and protrude a reproductive organ, mate with a passing male barnacle, […]
My disgust with this war grows daily, but I’ve been feeling like a lot of people are feeling the same way lately. The anger isn’t just quiet indignation anymore. It’s more palpable and a lot less shunned by the media.
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Original post by Tony
I don’t know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves “Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.”
Kurt Vonnegut, from A Man Without a Country.
sign me up.
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Original post by Brad