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