Lackadaisical semaphores and a puddle of jam |
Slowly advancing through the U.S. of A. system of education with a tenuous grasp on reality and a spurious sense of entitlement in staking a claim to existence in one microscopic corner of the universe. Topics of interest that may or may not pop up include: >TV: Doctor Who Sherlock (BBC) The Mighty Boosh QI Other sci-fi and British comedy >The animal kingdom - furry, scaly, feathered, crawly, squishy and otherwise -in disproportionate amounts, cats, arthropods (aka insects, spiders, and the like; you may wish to stay away if squeamish about such creatures), reptiles, amphibians, and sea creatures (squid, nudibranchs, jellyfish, sea anemones, et al) >An indiscriminate range of music >Art in its many varied forms, the beautiful and the grotesque >Science, psychology, history, and General Intellectual Relish >Top hats and moustaches >Food & drink - vegetarian culinary delights, particularly tea and sweets >Randomness, Oddities, and Other Miscellany |
The kiss of death.This astonishing sculpture forms part of Barcelona’s Poblenou Cemetery. The Kiss of Death (El Petó de la Mort in Catalan and El beso de la muerte in Spanish) dates back to 1930. A winged skeleton bestows a kiss on the lips of a handsome young man: is it ecstasy on his face or resignation? Little wonder the sculpture elicits strong and varying responses from whoever gazes upon it.
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cute little caps
I PORTEND YOUR GRISLY DEMISE FOOLISH MORTALS (also known as the gibbering mental breakdown following the realization of NO EARL GREY TEA at the daily tea-break, compounded by an unwanted human occupying the chosen spot of prime shadiness beneath the oak tree. Wearing matching socks no less. Tell me, shiny cockroach companion of mine with a bit of lint dangling from your left antenna, is the Universe telling me to start picking a hand-basket? I choose the cannibalised TARDIS one with bioluminescent polka-dots and free internet access. I can garnish it with demons’ claws when I get there.)
I concur mightily. Final exams are a terrible, terrible thing.
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by Stanko Abadzic
Steel Wire Sculptures by Tomohiro Inaba
Sea scorpions, or eurypterids, were the largest arthropods the world has ever seen.
Jaekelopterus rhenaniae
8.2 feet (2.5...
Reaper Cuttlefish (Sepia mestus)
….is a species of cuttlefish endemic to the warm southwestern Pacific ocean, they...
This micro image of the tiny marine copepod, Temora longicornis, was taken by Dr. Jan Michels Christian, at the Universität zu...
black-necked grebe
(photo by murat caliskan)