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Things That Delight Me: 5 – Fleurs Du Mal
Baudelaire by Manet Baudelaire’s poetry was fuelled by opium and alcohol (what, did you think they were just dissolving sugar in their absinthe?) and he led an appropriately decadent life for an...
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Things That Delight Me: 6 – Poe’s Tales
This is another wonderful, beautiful artifact that you can get on ebay or amazon’s rare book search for not a huge amount of money (between $25 and $250). It’s a great gift if you know someone with...
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White Collar Holler
I first heard this during a filksing at Balticon in 1980. There was a local group called “Clam Chowder” that used to perform twice a night at the con; it’s where I learned the words to “The Band Played...
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Creep While You Can!
Various links of weirdness led me to this collection of wonders: The Steel Trap: [link]That’s paper! It’s not even very complicated paper – the good people at Ravensblight have downloadable templates...
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Things That Delight Me: FredBlog
If you like numbers and charts and stuff, you’re going to love FredBlog! [fredblog] .. and GeoFRED! FRED Blog is new charts every day, drawn against the FRED database, with explanation of how they were...
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Yerkes Observatory
Yesterday we went out for dinner, then had a private tour of Yerkes Observatory, up in Williams Bay, WI. camera shake: it was getting dark! What a gorgeous place! The docent was great – he’d worked...
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Things That Delight Me: An Orphan
All my life I’ve been embarrassingly lucky. Ever since I did such a fantastic job of picking my parents, I just seem to stumble into the things I need when I need them. I don’t kid myself that it’s...
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Please Don’t Do That
Someone over on facebook did an edit of a music video, and – in thoughtless and talentless homage – accidentally shat all over it. Don’t re-favorite it. The video clip is of Prince and starts with the...
View ArticleWhy Is This Not More Widely Appreciated?
[Warning: Sexual Assault?] I encountered this track as the outro for a podcast I was listening to. When she sings “When will it be over?” I still have chills down my spine even after listening to it...
View ArticleScience Saved My Soul
I recently ran into one of the tried-and-boring christian come-backs against atheism: “if you don’t believe in god, how can you find joy in your life?” You know, that kind of yawner. The brief response...
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