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  • I Was Wrong

    I Was Wrong

    Earlier this week I did 2 Portraits of Allergies. I was wrong. Portrait of a Cold, Not Allergies, Pose 1 (iPhone Capture) iPhone Hipstamatic capture run through Lo-mob app then swept through Photoshop Light box link. Portrait of a Cold, Not Allergies, Pose 2 (iPhone Capture) iPhone Hipstamatic capture, background softened Light box link. He…

  • Hollywood, Pavlovian Pups, and The Best Adjusted Nervous System Response Desired by Corporate Psychologists

    Hollywood, Pavlovian Pups, and The Best Adjusted Nervous System Response Desired by Corporate Psychologists

    I just watched a film short on Turner Classic Movies that was pretty interesting, titled “Of Pups and Puzzles”. The film was released Sept 1941 and thus predated, if by just a few months, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into WWII, so it wasn’t your standard WWII patriotic oompahpah, though I felt…

  • H.o.p. Makes a Big Bubble at Fernbank

    H.o.p. Makes a Big Bubble at Fernbank

    Big bubble Enlarge light box link I was wondering if my broken toe could handle walking around Fernbank. It was feeling better but then it was feeling so much better Sunday that I ended up bashing it into a chair and was in major pain the rest of the day. But the broken toe made…

  • Do tell

    35,000 year old flute crafted from the hollow bone of a Griffin Vulture discovered in cave in southwestern Germany. “Archaeologists and other scholars can only speculate as to what moved these early Europeans to make music.” Well, they could talk to a musician about that. “The Hohle Fels flute was uncovered in sediments a… few…

  • Kubrick’s Lolita

    Kubrick’s Lolita

    In which James Mason and Shelley Winters beat Lucy and Dezi into the ground with baseball bats, then hop up and down upon their comedic graves Clare Quilty, the chair That I’d been directly immersed into the chaos of someone’s revealed dream is how I felt the first time I watched Humbert Humbert (James Mason)…

  • Catfish

    Georgia Aquarium Catfish Nov 2008 A nice behind-the-scenes article on the Georgia Aquarium at How Stuff Works.

  • Seems some people were very interested, after the debate, in whether or not one can nail jello to a wall

    Seems some people were very interested, after the debate, in whether or not one can nail jello to a wall. I too was watching the debate and my ears lit up because of the Indeed, Virginia, You Can Nail Jello to a Wall (aka Jello Christ) posting I did in May 2007. By the time…

  • Programs for homeschoolers at Zoo Atlanta

    Programs for homeschoolers at Zoo Atlanta

    Tuesday was Homeschool day at Zoo Atlanta and they have a brand new program called Homeschool Academy. Join Zoo Atlanta for an afternoon of learning and discovery designed specifically for home school students. The HomeSchool Academy is a unique program allowing students to explore animal and science concepts in a fun, interactive environment. Programs are…

  • Have you ever seen a UFO? Interview #9

    Have you ever seen a UFO? Interview #9

    “Yes. On two separate occasions. Once as a child and once as an adult.” The below is an interview, via a chat client, with Brother Arvin Hill. The sightings are two which occurred in Texas, outside of Dallas and in Denton county. Idyllopus Press: Soooo…you want to jump right into it? Brother Arvin: Ready. Idyllopus…

  • Oh m'god, those look like…scientists!

    Just had to note this. A couple days ago I wandered into the plant room (the nook where our plants live, that has sunlight) and looked out the window to see a man in his late 50s or early 60s and one in his late 30s on the opposite sidewalk engaging in body language that…

  • Some notes after viewing "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"

    [clear] Not like it’s an uncommon subject around here, but the other night Marty and I briefly discussed those big life changes where either through a sudden disruption or a slow, almost unnoticed disintegration, one opens one’s eyes to find that one is either on the edge or dead center of not just a spiritual…

  • Into The Petrified Forest

    Into The Petrified Forest

    Closed for Businesss, the Museum of the Americas Dinosaur Park Enlargement Sleep was tough at the Holiday Inn at Holbrook.