SOME GOOD NEWS FOR THE CRONES
Marc Bolan once had a TV show in the 1970s that ran for six episodes. Here is episode four; as best as I can tell it’s just a series of music videos that blur into one another. The name of the show was MARC, which I think is just wonderful.
The Supreme Court unanimously struck down the law that bans protestors from going within 35 feet of abortion clinic doors, but I think my idea to quietly play the Benny Hill theme song over their yelling is still pretty good.
I have almost no significant impulse control, so I would make a terrible clinic escort (I once rolled to a stop in front of the Planned Parenthood in Mountain View and said something very offensive about Catholicism and oral recreation to a group of priests-in-training standing outside the door), but consider taking the time to volunteer as one if you have the time and can keep your mouth shut when you’re pissed off.
THANK YOU for bearing with us this week as we have slowly but surely dealt with our server issues and made some necessary behind-the-scenes alterations to better serve you! Growing pains, my friends; nothing but growing pains. Please fling copious praise at Nick and Maria for their unrelenting, efficient good cheer, lest they grow dissatisfied with us and fly away.
“Sometimes I wonder if I made the right decision, marrying an extreme sports calendar model.”
Controversial Copenhagen Zoo Official: Zoos Are Selling Disney “Fairy Tales”
“We should not tell the Disney story that animals are only cute and only get born and never die,” said Bengt Holst, the Copenhagen Zoo’s science director, at the 2014 Euroscience Open Forum. “We have to tell the real story: ‘Death is a natural consequence of life.’ If [we] don’t tell that story, [we’re doing] a bad job, because then we don’t work for conservation—we work for an imaginary world.”
I cannot tell you how happy this cynical, committed-to-the-truth, anti-bullshit zoo crusader makes me. He puts down his cigarette. He pounds on the table. “COME TO THE ZOO AND SEE THE DEATH THAT MAKES LIFE. CAN YOU DO OTHERWISE?”
We are going to have a one-year Toast anniversary party in a few weeks! I still have to…plan that entirely, so give me a day or two to figure stuff out. Details to follow. It will be in Oakland. That is where I live. Do not ask me when we can throw a party in whatever town you live. I don’t live there. I like you, but I’m not going to drive to your house to have a party in it.
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