Sad that it occured to me at 1130 last night all the things i meant to clean for Moms arrival today. alas no sleep.
“I think it’s a horrible idea. To try to do a Buffy without Joss Whedon…it’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard.”
- Sarah Michelle Gellar on the Buffy reboot
Because the Origami Video = Lovely
Let's Think This Through: Every Child Dersves a Family
I was only recently (and by that I mean like 10 minutes ago) made aware of the “Every Child Deserves a Family Act”, which I have seen as both HR 3827 and HR1681. The purpose:
To prohibit discrimination in adoption or foster care placements based on the sexual orientation, gender identification,…
Lego Lovecraft house, with bricky tentacles
Lego artist Mr Xenomurphy created this great Lovecraftian horror-house, complete with Lego tentacles. Tentacles have so clearly been missing from Lego for all these years, it’s a wonder they aren’t standard issue now.
Grace Wiley: Snake Lady
When Minneapolis opened its first downtown library in 1889, it housed the Athenaeum, Society of Fine Arts and the Academy of Science on the 4th floor of the building at 10th and Hennepin.
Grace Wiley was a member of the Minnesota Academy of Science and also curator of its collection of animals. She started working with reptiles in 1922 and after the Academy disbanded in 1928, the museum continued on, under the library’s control. In 1928 Wiley was bitten by one of her animals and spent several days in the Minneapolis General Hospital.
Wiley and the reptiles moved to the Chicago Zoological Park in Brookfield, Illinois in 1933. Wiley lost her job in Chicago when she left the cobra cage open after cleaning it and moved to Long Beach, CA.
In Long Beach, Grace amassed a large collection of reptiles, doing serious work on the study of the reptiles and also loaning out 15 foot long King Cobras to movie studios. In 1948, while showing her snakes to a photographer from True Magazine, Wiley attempted to get a new cobra to spread its hood in attack position for a photograph. The cobra finally obliged and then struck Wiley on the finger. Ninety minutes later she was dead.
THE FUTURE OF BOOKS.
a decade by decade look from 2020-2080. #mcsweeneys
Vegas day 2 = fantasic! This will be hard to top!
