Friday Ephemera
The chocolate anus. // Chicago from 36,000 ft. // Stop-motion Tron. // Crayon Physics Deluxe. // Dreamlines. How it works. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // Unusual instruments. Including the bubble organ and the bowafridgeaphone. // High end watchmaking. // “Dr” Charlene Werner’s “homeopathic lecture.” A world of stupid. // Mary Jackson on “hegemonic masculinities” and other gratuitous plurals. // Steven Malanga on poverty and family structure. // Robert Spencer on “defaming” Islam. // At home with the Ahmadinejads. // Bert Teunissen’s domestic landscapes. (h/t, Mick Hartley.) // Islands of the world. // The door to hell, Uzbekistan. // Remarkable bulbs. // Tokyo taxi lights. More. // There’s so much to know about shoelaces. // The Puma “speed legs” advert. // Body Care and Grooming. (1948) // Things to do with your body. (h/t, DRB.) // Balloon animal anatomy. // Teddy bear skulls. (h/t, Ace.) More. // Giant mechanical animals. // Comic vendors of yore. // Science fiction book covers. (h/t, Coudal.) // Via Drunkablog, Arthur C Clarke’s The Sentinel. Sausages on the Moon. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr Mel Torme.
“Why Mr Ambassador, you’re really spoiling us!” 🙂
Ew!
Eeww!
Eeewwwwww! Whatever next? Raisin rectal warts? Perhaps they could add blueberry pieces as hemorrhoids.
On a slightly less ghastly note, according to Stephanie Metz, my own “Tedders” is actually an “Ursulus Oculoparvus”. Cool.
I quite like the foetal teddy bear series.
http://www.artbysteph.com/TeddyBearFetalDevelopment.html
I have long held the opinion that all things are or eventually will be available on the internet. The chocolate anus confirms that belief.
On another note, I enjoyed the ‘gratuitous plurals’ link. If you have a taste for hilarious and devastating critiques of the abuse of language, I strongly recommend Richard Mitchell’s book, Less Than Words Can Say. I have purchased several copies, because no copy I lend out is ever returned. As an added bonus, I can actually tie this book (tenuously) to the topic of the anus, via a brief review I wrote some time ago, at http://carnalreason.org/2005/06/12/less-than-words-cans-say .
Pwyll,
I’m intrigued. But can’t… open… link… Ah. Working now.
“…the man who sent it had promised to ‘analize’ my ‘input’…”
Magnificent, and a little bawdy. More of Mr Mitchell here: http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/index.html
Stop-motion Tron is better than the original.
Thanks Thin Man and David for Blue Moon by Mr. Mel Torme.
You may also enjoy this performance of his of Route 66:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWWpM49_K_E