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Let me explain New York to you.  This is a simple chronicle of the experience I had a few moments ago, but in a larger sense it is significant because it sums up the ethos of the entire town.

I am currently on the 14th floor of a hotel in Midtown Manhattan.  I desire a soda; a “pop” as it were.  I leave my 14th floor room and head to the Vending ( Read more... )

Last night I ate at a restaurant that prominently features a life-sized Cthulhu.

Moreover, it's a costume if you want to wear it.

I'm just saying.

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Following is a chronicle (as it were) of the heedless highjinks befalling a one Mr Pemwick of 1435 Harrington Square. Mr Pemwick, in a manner befitting ( Read more... )

As many of you know, I recently moved to Hollywood for a digital audio job. I arrived here (somewhat) safely and have every intention of giving the full low-down soon (now that the moving cray-zee has subsided).

Anyway, hope all is well you frackin freaksaladchildren!

Sorry for the cross-post for those of you on the geo-paleo lists...but this is fairly intense.

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a species that provides the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that walked out of water onto land about 375 million years ago.

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I came home to this a few weeks ago and forgot to post it.  If this ever made it out to any prominent members of their respective species, there would be hell to explain.


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Finally work in the 'new technology' department that is not only impressive, but is endlessly useful for geosciences.

It'll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth's minerals. "We're developing a tricorder," Downs said, referring to the instrument used on the "Star Trek" ( Read more... )

Yo momma's so stupid your dad said "We're getting a color TV" and yo momma asked "What color?"

Yo momma's so stupid she can only count to twenty if she's barefoot.

Yo momma's so stupid that a detailed analysis of her skull revealed an encephalization quotient more on par with a rhesus monkey than an advanced hominid.