the fountain

I spent my hard-earned matinee dollars on “The Fountain,” an unusual, beautiful-to-look-at, pretentious, psychedelic, tear-jerking, new-agey, “Space Odyssey meets Love Story” kind of movie. Riding in a soap-bubble of a spaceship, the hero kisses a tree and tattoos himself. The same guy is also a character in a novel about a Spanish conquistador, and he’s [...]

bird head chute

Imagine that all the chopped off turkey heads for a single U.S. Thanksgiving were rolled down a long spiraling metal chute that ended in your house. Imagine that one turkey head was released into the chute every five seconds. In 24 hours you’d have 17,280 heads. In one year you’d have about 6,300,000 of them. [...]

15 years

Maggie says that a 15-year anniversary is officially known as the Hairball Anniversary. We’re down to two cats, though, so I don’t know if it fits. Too bad, because that also eliminates the Feline Rodeo Clown Fiesta Anniversary. I’ll just call it the Day of Colossal Love that Simultaneously Conquered our Hearts and the World. [...]

Theater of Science

I wish the Theater of Science show would come to Seattle. Two scientists bring geekism, humor, and education to a live stage show that’s part theater, part learning. There are optical illusions, a live polygraph test, general frivolity, and one of the big highlights of the show is having a person stand in a metal [...]

a 1982 moment

there’s heroes and villains
Ma B. and her boys
doing the twist
dancing with toys
i’ve been waiting all night
for someone like you
but you’ll have to do
My favorite song by the Psychedelic Furs: “Run and Run.” 

earthlink bitten by rabid dogs

How else to explain their behavior after years of faultless service? Yes, their DSL service was down for about six days. Then it was supposedly back, or was it? I certainly couldn’t get it back. I spent many cheerless evenings and weekend hours having online chats with techs who had ideas that didn’t work. I [...]

i’m busy, so visit these links to amuse yourself

If you liked the toad-head costume a few entries down, you’ll want to read about the dog who loves psychedelic toad secretions .

Here’s a link I found on Gretchin’s site: find out how much of your favorite caffeine drink you can guzzle before the caffeine kills you.
Online pregnancy test. Mildly amusing.
Strangest buildings [...]

compressed

Got a flu shot yesterday and it made feel tired and crappy that evening, but dang it, I’d already paid my ticket for SeaCompression so I went for a while. It was pretty impressive compared to the one I visited two years ago. Had my photo taken at the Sleaze-O-Rama booth, but the biggest thrill [...]