Friday Ephemera
Evil Dead: the Musical. // Wheelbarrow racing. Wait for the cunning manoeuvre. // Human marvels. Including Stefan Bibrowski and the two-headed boy of Bengal. // Natural phenomena of note. The Catatumbo lightning and the rain of fish. // The big-eared thingamajig. Video. // Photographs of the Iron Curtain. (h/t, Things.) // Fareed Zakaria interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali. “In Europe, when radical Islamic movements use freedoms to destroy freedom, they seem to get away with it.” (h/t, Cookslaw.) // Efraim Karsh and Rory Miller on Edward Said. “Said’s substitution of politics for scholarship in the name of ‘speaking truth to power’ has spawned scores of students, professors, and journalists who seek to emulate his path to fame.” // Oliver Kamm on Stockhausen. // Deogolwulf on the Feminist Association of Iceland. // Radioactive condoms and beauty cream laced with radium. // Pepsi: Ice Cucumber. The goodness of Pepsi with the taste of cucumber. // “Sometimes a cigar is [not] just a cigar.” (h/t, Maggie’s Farm.) // How to spot a cylon. // Concealed hearing devices of the 19th century. Canes, hair-bands, the acoustic beard. // Aaron Duffy’s film of wool and forbidden love. (h/t, 30gms.) // Chris Cunningham’s video for Aphex Twin’s Monkey Drummer. Looks fun, sounds like a pile of arse. // The design work of Kashiwa Sato. (h/t, Coudal.) // More Japanese vending machines. Beetles, porn, toilet paper. // Shaolin: Temple of Zen. // How to be a ninja. // Superman and Jesus. Together at last. // The good bit of Superman Returns. // Map of space in Star Trek. Some dimensions not shown. // How to explode a star. // Ray guns we have known and loved. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr Ray Anthony.
It’s getting close to that time of year, so for those of you who may be in need of some formatted-for-printing Christmas Carol Song Sheets, I wish to draw your attention to:
http://sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2006/12/christmas-carols.html
Note that in “Silent Night” we have “Sleep in heavenly peace”. In “O Little Town of Bethlehem” we have “Peace to men on earth”. In “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” we have “Peace on the earth, good will to men”. In “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” we have “Peace on earth and mercy mild”. In “Do You Hear What I Hear?” we have “Pray for peace, people, everywhere”, and in “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” we have “Good tidings of comfort and joy!”.
Yes I know that Aristotle said “We make war so that we may live in peace”, but for me, the trans-ideological beauty of Christmas is its message of peace on earth and good will toward men. Sometimes, even in war, we need to think about that. Christmas is that time for me.
Which reminds me, my comments on and the the full text of Pope Benedict’s “2008 Peace Message” are now available here:
http://sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2007/12/pope-benedicts-2008-peace-message.html
Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell shows off his musical chops with a unique version of Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6bZSM48vU
Great Caesar’s ghost. Truly, there is no end to the man’s talents.
Whoever did the cylon identification guide like BSG almost as much as me.
David, Thanks for the link!
I thought it couldn’t get much better than ‘Evil Dead: The Musical’, then… ahoy!
That’s made my Christmas, that has.
Is it sad that I immediately knew that the Star Trek map only showed bits of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants? Nice map though.
Just as long as you didn’t scour the map looking for the planet Krypton.
For some reason Vodafone have placed the Cylon identification pic behind a 18+ filter. I rarely use my mobile as an Access Point but my ISP has been down for a few days, so I had no choice. Imagine my anticipation: What pornographic delights has David laid on for us….
I trust the disappointment wasn’t too crushing.