the seattle times orbits mars, heads into the great beyond

The Seattle Times has added another brick to its towering “We are clueless” wall. After several teenagers were murdered earlier this week, the Times went off on a bizarre right angle to reality and published an editorial suggesting more restrictions be added to the city’s all-ages dance ordinance. Did the murders happen at a teen [...]

don’t let your tongue be replaced by a parasite

I learned a fascinating fact at my book club tonight. There’s a parasite (a type of louse) that attaches itself to the tongue of a fish and ultimately replaces the tongue with its own body. It either plugs into the artery below the tongue for fresh blood, causing the tongue to wither and die, or [...]

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Maggie finds the best web utilities. Cooliris Previews knocked off both my shoes and socks. Are you ever curious about where a link on a web page takes you, but don’t want to actually go there? Just hover your cursor over the little blue spot that appears by the link and [...]

refugee rhino bonds with turtle

I guess this has already been “widely circulated on the Internet” but I didn’t know about it till Maggie brought it to my attention. Sometimes an animal will happily tear another animal to shreds, and sometimes they find mutual support. In this case a baby rhino found a friendly 100 year-old turtle. There are couple [...]

question and answer time on abovetopsecret.com

Actual conversation from a UFO-government conspiracy-mind control web site.
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The Zetan-Greys are the most commonly reported aliens by abductees, with Nordics (genetically engineered Homo sapiens) reported as serving as security to protect the weaker Greys against their Terran prisoners, and the Reptilians being the overlord caste. What have you learned through your investigations as to the [...]

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the last hurrah of the damned

Mostly I just wanted to use the above title. However, I did drop by the last meeting of Dramatists and Actors Meeting Now, at least the last one of its current incarnation. I’ve heard that it is (was) the longest running playwright’s group in town. Through DAMN, I met some great people and saw many [...]

best and worse

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada I think this is one of the better films I’ve seen in the last several months. It’s a modern day western in which a rancher kidnaps the man who killed his friend, packs up his friend’s body, and heads for Mexico on horseback with both of them. There are [...]