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A 1959 Walt Kelly Pogo page commemorating the best note ever. Nowadays you'd never get away with humor this wordy, but the language is intoxicating.
John Atkinson just emailed this link asking, "Have you blogged this?" Well, no—although I do believe I emailed it to him back in ought-three. Disirregardless, it's a good'un.
And, as Dave Barry likes to say, projects like this are why we need guys. And Lego, obviously.
He was looking at me. I acknowledged, nodded politely, turned away.
As the dirty doors slid open, letting us out into the blue and gray smear of Grove Street station, he asked: "You don't happen to work in academia, do you?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Is there any chance that you work in academia?"
"No, but thanks for asking."
"You look the part."
"Well, I always kinda wanted to be an English professor."
"What do you do?"
"I'm an editor."
"Close."
"Yeah."
"What do you edit?"
"I work for a magazine called…
From The Guardian comes "Fallout: the human cost of a nuclear catastrophe," a photo essay on Chernobyl that's difficult to look at—and impossible to look away from.
We're talking two 500-cubic-inch V-8s, 1000 board-feet feet of mahogany (cut into 4183 pieces), five gallons of glue, 60 pounds of drywall screws, and four gallons of varnish.
Steve Martin never ceases to amaze me—sometimes by his audacity, sometimes by what he chooses to do (any number of recent movie projects illustrates this point, although our culture's current resistance to good film-making is not his fault). I digress, however—this is powerful, honest writing and I feel better for simply having read it. You go, Mr. Martin.
Via Monkeyfilter.
And I play one on TV, too. Why some academics can hit it and others have to quit it. Yes, we're still talking television.
The pairing has been likened to Mary Poppins and Satan. That's the easy and obvious way out, and it's a load of crap. It's much more difficult than that. They're much more similar than they are different, coming together to tell one story and filling in each other's blanks only when the reverb gets too thick. But I don't want to say any more about it. I'll now speak only of the differences I heard between listening in the office — through my computer's Dell speakers — and listening at home — with the Musical Fidelity A3.5 system and Totem Arro speakers.
I'm talking, again, about…
Natasha Walter argues that Brühilde, not Siegfreid, is the real hero of the Ring cycle. Her proof is in the music.