Author: Allegra

Born when atmospheric carbon was 316 PPM. Settled on MST country since 1997. Parent, grandparent.

Remarkable science news culled from eurekalert.org

Our skin can feel sensation with more than one set of nerves.

Instant battery… just add paper?

There’s something deeply wrong with this story.  I don’t care about the radiation, I just don’t want to fly through a thunderstorm.

Fit teenaged boys are smarter. So go get some exercise, ya little punks.

As a result of our long childhood, which seems to get longer every year, parents are involved with their kids longer. Nodding, nodding.

This has implications for everything from analysis of disease outbreaks to making more robust computer networks.

Odds und sods

Doris Lessing interviewed. She has a way of saying things that is resonantly remarkable.

Alan Moore is inta majic. Now why the heck would anybody be startled by that.  What he says really resonates.  I know I am supposed to be a hard ass atheist, I should be a materialist, blah ha ha woof mew.  There’s a lot I don’t know, including my own mind, sometimes.

A picture…. The guy who plays Esposito on Castle getting ‘bit’ by the Eric Northman from True Blood. For shiz like thiz twitter was invented….

Onion-style article about the stupidity of contemporary Brits.

So about all this type casting, stereo typing, and other mental short cut stuff….  Will be very hard to read, but I thought it was pretty funny.

I would have posted links to MP3s of Emma Goldman’s writings, but when there was a mispronunciation in the FIRST 30 SECONDS I say to myself, damn those modern anarchists, can’t they get anything rite write right??

And with this last link, I realize that irony explodes into a cloud of multiversial memes, and go back to transcribing Dennis’ reminiscences.

Success all round

Waffles = success.

Stationery trip = success.

Band audition = success.

Leftovers = success.

Priceless moments with our furry housemates = success.

Laundry = success.

Walking in the brilliant, glorious, dazzling, heart-drenching sunshine for 40 minutes while carrying a mandolin = success.

This line deleted on advice of counsel, but trust me, it was delectable and loathsome, like a verbal confection of the Marquis de Sade translated by Patrick O’Brian and interpreted by Hunter S. Thompson, and afterwards rolled in a dusting of H.P. Lovecraft.  Still with me?  I guarantee it equalled success.

Watching Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Woods in The Wrestler = success. Evan Rachel Woods supposedly getting back together with Marilyn Manson = you must be kidding = hope he’s quit drinking.

Having transcribed some of Dennis’ interview already = success.

A brief descent into vers libre, big kisses to the one reader of this blog who will actually appreciate this….

the what I do the thinking with, o

it makes a buzz

just like a beehive

teenaged boys have whacked.  So much

to think about . life echoes in continuance . life dancing

through doorways . life unfurling its logic . life burgeoning .

life expiring on its own pyre .

life continues

to have that golden glow

Tonight in the fey

the fading moonlight

I am an avatar of the Parking Goddess

soon this divinity will drop

into the day / day

into whispers . into a rush of sea-borne sound . into the pale

and steady light of winter .