The View From Here

On the stereogram:

I Am a Cold Rock. I Am Dull Grass: A Tribute to the Music of Will Oldham

Luxury by Fantastic Plastic Machine

Neither Washington Nor Moscow by Redskins

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On the bookshelf:

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
 

6 January 2005

With all the news over Christmas I missed this: Jerry Orbach passed away. From the art show Law & Order: Artistic Intent, this is 'A Night Away':

Detail from 'A Night Away'

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'Oh, the Huge Manatee'!! Or perhaps 'Doh! The Humanity!'

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From the Wilf Lunn autobiography. Both my mum and dad used to go 'bullroaring':

"The night before Bonfire night was ‘Mischief Night.’ Mam if she remembered put a bucket of water on the gas cooker to catch any bangers or worse still jumping crackers dropped down the chimney. A favourite trick was called ‘Bullroaring’. We’d stuff as much crumpled newspaper as we could up someone’s cast iron drainpipe, then we’d light it. If conditions were right the paper would burn fiercely like a blowlamp. The drainpipe sucked in air and roared like a rocket. It was quite alarming for the owners of the house but if they were lucky their drainpipe didn’t crack. Nowadays with plastic drainpipes they'd just melt."

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The latest college radio charts. If you have these albums you'll undoubtedly have earned the right to wear this. (via methylsalicylate)

Since WVFS doesn't put up their music chart you could have a look at the comprehensive KZSU charts.

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The very popular skeletons of cartoon characters. Dig that Shmoo:

Shmoo skeleton

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Movie maps of London holds out much promise, pity there's such a small choice of movies.

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This 'pigs gone wild' story got a lot of play:

"A PIG farmer given an antisocial behaviour order (ASBO) for failing to control his livestock could be sent to prison for up to five years after a neighbour claimed that his animals went on the rampage again just five hours later."

But The Times' graphic artists outdid themselves:

The pigs clearing the fence that would test them in the Grand National is a treat.

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Some of the best caption competition winners. My favourite:

Blair and Chirac duet

"And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like 'the justification for war based on the existence of WMD was...'"

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Useful if you're flying in the USA, average wait times at security.

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A great photo story, but it didn't need the final, awful, photoshopping.

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