turning the corner onto Bourbon Street and seeing...


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Woman Overjoyed By Giant Uterine Parasite

Found that after reading this amusing, nostalgic article by a former "reporter" for the Weekly World News:

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/08/25/weekly_world_news/index.html

I found this fun web page: instructions on how to make a quill pen.

My favorite part is the recipe for ink at the bottom, courtesy of Jane Austen's sister-in-law:

Take 4 ozs of blue gauls [gallic acid, made from oak apples], 2 ozs of green copperas [iron sulphate], 1 1/2 ozs of gum arabic. Break the gauls. The gum and copperas must be beaten ( Read more... )

I love Pachelbel's Canon in D.  In fact, just weeks ago I found myself saying there could never be too many variations on it.

But this is hilarious.