Happy Birthday, Marquis!

It's a belated wish - by now it is tomorrow in the Land of the Rising Sun - due to Feral Boy's current employment unexpectedly lasting the whole day. (How do you domesticated humans do it?) The Kid Rock concert T-shirt and matching fedora, however, are already on their way.

Trash Can Photography (or Making the Best of a Stinky Job)

You've got a crappy job as a sanitation worker. You'd rather be doing what you love, photography. Of course, you convert trash cans and dumpsters into pinhole cameras to take photos on the job, as some German sanitation workers have done.

More photos here.

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Space Is the Place

Steely Dan's "Aja" Selected for the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress

"I was listening to The Royal Scam at work today, completely coincidentally, which is MY pick for the top Dan album. Not that I can really quibble with any of their '70s records (I have to confess I've never made it through Gaucho and the two most recent albums.) I was lucky enough to catch them performing that album in full in Chicago last fall, probably one of the few twenty-somethings in the audience. At one point, Donald Fagen mysteriously left the stage, only to saunter back a few minutes later, melodica in hand. My words cannot convey how beautiful it actually was. That saunter."


--reader comment from a blog entry elsewhere announcing the event providing this blog entry with its title; I will now return to my regularly-scheduled snorting of cocaine off a copy of Remembrance of Things Past




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Important Offer From Ty (via email)!

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Double Rainbow Re-Mix!!

Double Rainbow!!

"What does this mean?!"



Feral Boy, have you been posting your camping adventures on YouTube?

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...or now, perhaps

Under "Popular Searches," on MSN home page:

Earth 'uninhabitable' in 300 years? | 3-D centerfold


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Economic Hope, Courtesy of Shanti

Stolen Moments

Titillating, poignant and beautiful, Yasmine Chatila's voyeuristic photo series "Stolen Moments" raises important questions about one's right to privacy. I don't think I'd appreciate being her unwitting model. More photos here.

Texts From Last Night

http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/Texts-From-Worst-Nights.html

National Geographic

I received an email containing the following album of excellent photos, supposedly the best of NG, 2009.




























Surfing the NG site for the source (which I never found), I was nevertheless overwhelmed by the wealth of great photos. A great place to start exploring is Photo of the Day.

Gimme that old-time journalism

I was going through a newspaper index digging for historical information on a local person when I came across this heading for an article of August 3, 1945:

"Brilliant cloud attracted attention (late morning)"

I found the line provocative on so many levels.

. . .

spam

With the subject line "I promise you all you wish", the email continued:
It shone in her face, dissatisfaction?
Mrs. Nottingham gall
equilibriums

Salvaging the 70s

Forgotten unserious brilliance!

A True Story From Belize

"Hey," the friendly Belizean said, approaching Rocky and Stoner at the streetside table of the Faya Wata bar in downtown San Ignacio. "Your friend is looking for you."

"Our friend with the headlamp?" Rocky said, assuming the man was speaking of Feral Boy.

"Yeah, the Fatman with the headlamp. He's looking for you down dere."

Christian Bale Freakout Mashup (not for work!)

Por Favor

Some American Spanish.

Sarah Palin, Poet

from Slate:

It's been barely six weeks since the arctic-fresh voice of Alaskan poet Sarah Heath Palin burst upon the lower 48. In campaign interviews, the governor, mother, and maverick GOP vice presidential candidate has chosen to bypass the media filter and speak directly to fans through her intensely personal verses, spoken poems that drill into the vagaries of modern life as if they were oil deposits beneath a government-protected tundra.
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