Thursday, October 9, 2008

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Petrified Squid


Despite our global financial woes, petrified squid is flying off the shelves…


Petrified squid!

Really, that is exactly what these are. Wyoming was once covered by an immense inland sea - the ground is littered with cryptocrystalline quartz, a stone that holds every color of sunrise and sunset and is only found in deep marine environments. Native Americans found it a perfect rock for making arrowheads.

But I digress. These are petrified squid, from the time this land was sea. They range in size from less than an inch long and less than 1/4 inch wide, to over 3 inches long and over an inch wide. They range in color - some are transluscent amber, most are a deep amythyst, some with an opaque matrix of stone. Collected by moi...

Hat tip to Wagga!

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

The Politics of Arugula

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!
Why My Former Hero Shouldn’t Be President

The arugula meme was born, so far as I can tell, when a young and relatively unknown presidential candidate by the name of Barack Obama, attempting to sympathize with a group of Iowans about the challenges of rising food prices, opened his mouth and promptly inserted his foot:

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?” the senator said. “I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

The state of Iowa, for all of its vast food production, does not have a Whole Foods, a leading natural and organic foods market. The closest? Omaha, Minneapolis or Kansas City.

Mr. Obama, perhaps sensing a lack of reaction from the crowd, moved along to the next topic.



A gaffe? Surely – and the fact that Iowa actually does grow and sell a fair share of arugula doesn’t do much to alleviate that. The reaction, in any case, was every bit as merciless as the rise to fame of a previously obscure leafy green was, err, meteoric: what had previously been the province of the occasional recipe-blogger immediately became the political slur du jour, an all-purpose tool for accusing your opponents of being effete, elite, and otherwise out of touch with the concerns of those fabled ordinary Americans. And Obama, in turn, was promptly anointed as the fancy-dining liberal with the Ivy League degrees: “wine track” candidate who would surely be rejected by Hillary Clinton’s shot-downing beer drinkers, the blue state counterpart to Miss Buffalo Chip and John McCain’s – ahem – salt-of-the-earth Ferragamo loafers.


Continued: A country so polarized that consuming arugula has become a political act


Nothing wrong with being an elitist arugula eater from outer space and such!


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Monday, October 6, 2008

Getting Sh!t Done with Koi and stuff

Cast your mind back for 100,000,000 shakes* to this beautiful scarification piece on Eric (by Wayde) - The photo below is how it’s looking 50,400 minutes** later!


What's up with shovel?
For some reason, I am reminded of a large koi.




Saturday, October 4, 2008

Hello Kitty ATM and such

However, this particular pussy repository apparently has very tight restrictions; with well-timed withdrawals the preferred procedure, and deposits almost definitely deemed out of the question
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE via Wagga with the following comment: "this bloke making a deposit? - or peeing on it"
Considered posting it on Edgar's Toilet, but I think the HK ATM juxtaposition is more appropriate.
My dogs are currently in some sort of barking competition with the Pug next door.
Little dogs are so much more high strung than big dogs.
WARNING: the fishnet image at the bottom of the post may be considered NSFW in certain sectors.


If you’re familiar with Shearer’s Le Show, you won’t be too horrified by this TERRIBLE CREEPY MUSIC.



She's a show-off

Friday, October 3, 2008

2759 Koi Jobless in Seattle

Koi by *DelMuro
Hat tip to Wagga for this find!

There's something fishy about letting fish give a pedicure. That's what the state says.

Pedicures by fish — the use of tiny, live carp to clean feet — has been deemed unsanitary and illegal in this state.

The state Department of Licensing issued a statement Thursday saying officials were "greatly concerned" that customers, in their quest for smooth heels, are willing to soak their feet in a tank of toothless fish that feast on dead skin.

Christine Anthony, spokeswoman for the department, said it's impossible to sanitize the live fish. "You can clean the tank, you can clean the water, but there's no guarantee that the fish aren't carrying something from the previous customer."

...State outlaws fish pedicures

Speaking of fish: Happy Fishnet Friday! TGIFF!

Hello Kitty Love. by *PlastikStars

Blue Killer 66 by ~DrTaker

Actual photograph of California going bankrupt