Grey as a mouse,
Big as a house,
Nose like a snake,
I make the earth shake,
As I tramp through the grass;
Trees crack as I pass.
With horns in my mouth
I walk in the South,
Flapping big ears.
Beyond count of years
I stump round and round,
Never lie on the ground,
Not even to die.
Oliphaunt am I,
Biggest of all,
Huge, old, and tall.
If ever you'd met me
You wouldn't forget me.
If you never do,
You won't think I'm true;
But old Oliphaunt am I,
And I never lie.
J.R.R.Tolkien
And peanut butter and jelly sandwiches require exquisite attention to detail. The peanut butter to jelly ratio must be flawless, something that cannot be measured with little plastic spoons. A consistent layer of peanut butter beneath a not-too-lumpy cover of Welch's grape jelly. No other jellies will do. None of those all-natural brands with the disgusting lumps of fruit and seeds in them. Or the sugar-free, low-fat brands that taste like throat lozenges. And the jelly can't lap over the edge of the bread either. The last thing a kid working his way up the elementary school caste system needs is a big purple stain on his shirt.
http://www.magpage.com/~deltufjp/deltufo/X0042_peanut_butter_and_je.html
Deu no Metafilter:
Artist Marc Garrett has used the pseudonym Eye Opener for several years to produce the Censored Porn project. Images were lifted from the net, and all skin replaced with solid color or patterns, often from the images' own backgrounds
http://www.furtherfield.org/eyeopener/index.html
Salon via Robot Wisdom
Robert Young Pelton, author of "The World's Most Dangerous Places," says the U.S. military has killed "thousands and thousands" of people in Afghanistan, al-Qaida is a myth and the WTC was brought down by a "Mickey Mouse" outfit.
http://salon.com/books/int/2002/04/23/pelton/print.html
Pick up a textbook on abnormal psychology and in the first chapter you are likely to find a discussion of the dance manias. Also known as St. Vitus's dance, between the eleventh and seventeenth centuries, manias swept across Europe as tens of thousands of people participated in frenzied public orgies and wild dances lasting for days and sometimes weeks. It is little wonder why psychiatrists and medical historians classify such episodes as group mental disorder affecting those overwhelmed by the stresses of the period. During outbreaks many immodestly tore off their clothing and pranced naked through the streets. Some screamed and beckoned to be tossed into the air; others danced furiously in what observers described as strange, colorful attire. A few reportedly laughed or weeped to the point of death. Women howled and made obscene gestures while others squealed like animals. Some rolled themselves in the dirt or relished being struck on the soles of their feet.
http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-07/dancing-mania.html
Dick was intrigued by three questions:
Is the universe benign?
What denotes humanity?
What is reality?
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/review/id2188/pg1/
"Sweet creeping zombie Jesus!"
The Professor, Futurama
"Cloaca, the latest work by the Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye (b. 1965), has just closed out its run at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA) in Antwerp. It was a room-sized installation of six glass containers connected to each other with wires, tubes and pumps. Every day, the machine received a certain amount of food.
Meat, fish, vegetables and pastries passed through a giant blender, were mixed with water, and poured into jars filled with acids and enzyme liquids. There they got the same treatment as the human stomach would supply. Electronic and mechanical units controlled the process, and after almost two days the food came out of a filtering unit as something close to genuine, human shit."
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/fiers/fiers1-9-01.asp
Christ references in the Star Wars trilogy
Satan references in the Star Wars trilogy
Salon via /.:
pulp science fiction references in the Star Wars trilogy
GooJa via Robot Wisdom:
Thelemic references in the Star Wars trilogy
Robert Anton Wilson manda avisar:
"Two recent political leaders allegedly had this nefarious habit.
Both came to power after dubious elections, by non-electorial and irregular methods.
Both nations immediately experienced attacks on famous public buildings.
Both blamed an ethnic minority before forensics had any evidence.
Both led "witch-hunts" against the accused minority.
Both suspended civil liberties "temporarily."
Both put the citizenry under surveillance.
Both maintained secret and clandestine governments.
Both launched wars against most of the world.
One had a funny mustache. Can you name the other one?"
"Polish aristocrat turned Oriental wanderer, Count Jan Potocki was a child of the Enlightenment drawn to the mysticism of the Illuminati and Rosicrucians. Gary Lachman examines the strange life and even stranger death of the author of The Saragossa Manuscript."
http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/140_potocki.shtml
Muti manda avisar
Entrevista com Oscar Niemeyer em artigo de capa da Newsweek da semana passada:
How do you reconcile your ideas of beauty and the client's requirements?
I don't give a shit about the client. Beauty and form are my goals. Architecture is invention.
O artigo na íntegra pode ser visto em http://www.msnbc.com/news/728728.asp
Deu no memepool
"Chisenbop is a method of doing basic arithmetic using your fingers. It is attributed to the Korean tradition, but it is probably extrememly old, as the soroban and abacus use very similar methods. Probably these other devices were derived from finger counting."
http://klingon.cs.iupui.edu/~aharris/chis/chis.html
"Bad alibi
like
dead fish -
cannot stand
test of time"
Charlie Chan
Slate via Boing Boing
Because he was rediscovered in the lounge-music boom of the mid-'90s, Esquivel tends to get lumped in with band leaders like Martin Denny and Les Baxter, whose claims to exotica were more strenuous and less interesting. But Esquivel is to Denny or Baxter as Tex Avery is to Walt Disney‹a wild man standing next to a deacon.
http://www.slate.msn.com/?id=2060898