Toasty Post.
‘We set out in the spring
with a trunk full of books about
everything’
Sluggomatic ran a marathon this weekend? Does she live still? We shall find out.
Maxwell sang well, and played bass, and was vaporized to reveal new information.
Senrab shall find his tapes returned on Tuesday, now digitized, the Blue Original re-mastered in Paradise.
I am going to write light adventure about the first use of chlorine gas as a weapon in human history.
Sky, having shut down the blog with a Linda Blair dance, is — ?? Where the eff is Sky? Perhaps somewhere in Japan, 1953 or so –
Cat-Eyes, on the run from the Texan authorities, thinks about lighting out for the Territories.
Ian Fleming is Still Dead.
The River Horse? Horse of Badordies? Aldous? O’Reilly?
Let’s have an Oscar Wilde Post, about the cold hand that gripped his heart when he saw the rent-boys outside the station.
‘About solar devices
and how nice
natural childbirth is.’
It’s almost OMG Cookie Weekend.
byronius was close! 1960 Tokyo actually:
The eyes lengthen in time
Spinning things coming from all directions
Foreshortened filmstock in my mind
Chickenstock in my gravy
Hideous Beauty…
Must return to my time-slice device now…
Or be stuck in here forever.
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 1:19 am
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Oscar Wilde
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 6:38 am
Occupy Melbourne Tent Monsters Defy Police, Chase Them From Park:
Brilliant.
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 8:26 am
I Love This.
on a side note – the melbourne police here didn’t show up in riot gear, wielding pepper spray and batons – and there are noticeably more females in the squad, including their leader as it were.
It is a sad statement that the police have become paid mercenaries for the obscenely rich and obscene.
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 9:17 am
Great new poster –
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 10:30 am
Oscar was always a great one for a pithy remark!
I appreciate the Aussies sense of humour and the restraint of the Melbourne cops!
Nice poster!
Oh, and did I mention that Newt Gingrich needs a one-way ticket to the lowest level of hell? A major-league asswipe… And what the hell is up with the ‘Gilas On Parade’ (GOP) and the pilgrimages to kiss the ring of Donald Trump???? As if he MATTERS… at ALL.
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 12:56 pm
Last words of Oscar Wilde-
“Either this wallpaper goes or I do.”
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 3:28 pm
Oh, and Sluggo lives, but regrettably was a scratch from the marathon. She got t-banded, whatever that means. But the Sluggo-mate ran (with a hangover no less) and still lives as I understand. All hail the Sluggo-mate.
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 3:34 pm
The fact that Sluggo was even lining up for that thing makes her a better man than I. And what is Sluggo-mate’s user name? And why has he not posted?
That Oscar Wilde stuff just re-intrigues me with the fellow. He just seemed to be everywhere, in everything. Still is.
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 4:40 pm
This is a beauty –
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 4:47 pm
Sort of related insofar as police tactics:
“Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a “war,” and the consequences are predictable. These policies have taken a toll. Among the victims of increasingly aggressive and militaristic police tactics: Cheye Calvo, the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Md., whose dogs were killed when Prince George’s County police mistakenly raided his home; 92-year-old Katherine Johnston, who was gunned down by narcotics cops in Atlanta in 2006; 11-year-old Alberto Sepulveda, who was killed by Modesto, Calif., police during a drug raid in September 2000; 80-year-old Isaac Singletary, who was shot by undercover narcotics police in 2007 who were attempting to sell drugs from his yard; Jonathan Ayers, a Georgia pastor shot as he tried to flee a gang of narcotics cops who jumped him at a gas station in 2009; Clayton Helriggle, a 23-year-old college student killed during a marijuana raid in Ohio in 2002; and Alberta Spruill, who died of a heart attack after police deployed a flash grenade during a mistaken raid on her Harlem apartment in 2003. Most recently, voting rights activist Barbara Arnwine was raided by a SWAT team in Prince George’s County, Md., on Nov. 21. The police appear to have raided the wrong house.”
Read the entire story at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/police-militarization-use-of-force-swat-raids_b_1123848.html
Comment on December 5, 2011 @ 7:35 pm
Byronius re:#10. That was awesome. What a brilliant way to show the amazing success of that mission. That little video shows an incredible amount of work being accomplished by that little machine a hundred million miles or so away from Earth. The engineers who designed and built it deserve a standing ovation. And Opportunity rolls on…
Comment on December 6, 2011 @ 6:39 am
re #10: Considering the reduced gravity and the minimal relative weight of the rover some of that Martian muck must be really soft and loose when you see how deep the ruts are. also looks like they should incorporate a lens dust cleaner of some sort on future models as the sharpness clearly degrades.
Comment on December 6, 2011 @ 9:45 am