Archive for 'scary'
Duly quoted (Thanksgiving edition)
Why did Franklin want to make the turkey the national bird? There has been a massive coverup by historians, extending over 200 years and perpetrated in the name of some wrongheaded notion of morality, or of keeping our founding demigods safely sexless. The fact is that Franklin married a turkey and fathered eleven part-poultry children. [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2008 under scary.
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Photo Wednesday: Bringing it all back home
I studied comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where this picture was taken in 1930. It shows the Ingenues, “an all-girls band and vaudeville act,” serenading milk cows as part of an experiment to see if they would produce more milk (the cows, I mean).
I admit I like cheese, but I’m still [...]
Posted: July 2nd, 2008 under scary.
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Better dot those i’s and cross those t’s!
Why? Well consider the case of Emine and Ramazan Çalçoban. Theirs was a fatal love affair. But it was hardly Romeo and Juliet.
In the beginning all was sunbeams and roses for this young Turkish couple. But then things started to go bad, and get worse, and finally they separated. A flurry of e-mail incriminations followed, [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2008 under scary, typography.
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Novelist, Murderer?
Are those bullet points on Krystian Bala’s multifaceted resume?
Or does art just happen to resemble death?
Posted: August 13th, 2007 under scary.
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Orwell Saw the Writing on the Wall
No, wait, it’s a camera.
Orwellian Evening Standard article on surveillance cameras around Orwell’s home via exploding aardvark
Posted: April 2nd, 2007 under books, politics, scary.
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Are We Evolving?
Not much sign of it in this Newsweek poll. Among its findings:
Nearly half of all Americans believe that evolution is not well supported by evidence and is not widely accepted within the scientific community (despite numerous expressions of scientific support from Nobel Prize winners, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the United States [...]
Posted: March 31st, 2007 under politics, scary, sigh.
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