Everyone who attended Dave Chapelle’s Block Party, ten years later.
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Fish-eating spiders “pretty common.” That is so nonchalant! Were scientists chewing on stalks of hay as they made that announcement? “Yeah, there’s…there’s a bunch of ‘em, so look out, I guess.”
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HEE.
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Okay, read this, and then read the first comment. WE ARE SO CLOSE TO MAKING THIS HAPPEN.
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Neat!
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“Gerry Goffin was my first love. He had a profound impact on my life and the rest of the world. Gerry was a good man and a dynamic force, whose words and creative influence will resonate for generations to come. His legacy to me is our two daughters, four grandchildren, and our songs that have touched millions and millions of people, as well as a lifelong friendship.”
puts on “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” stares wistfully out the window.
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We do not need more pigeons, passenger or otherwise. You stay dead. YOU STAY DEAD, pigeons.
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“An extremely rare white humpback whale has been spotted off the coast of Sydney in an event onlookers called a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The albino is believed to be Migaloo, the world’s best-known all-white humpback who has built up a loyal following in Australia since first being sighted in 1991.”
OH MY GOD OH MY GODDDDD I WANT ONE
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I still have not forgiven him for Flowers for Algernon and I never, ever will.
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Have you seen The Apartment? It’s on Netflix Instant right now, and I’m watching it at my friend Leah’s house. I’m not the world’s greatest Shirley MacLaine fan, but she’s just terrific in it. You ought to watch it, if you haven’t got a lot of plans this weekend.
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I am 150% in support of WHALE COVERAGE ALWAYS. Isn’t it insane that there is something as huge as a full-grown adult humpback whale out there and we STILL go YEARS without seeing it? The ocean is such a crazy place. Also, whales are just the best creatures. (Everyone knows my whale obsession and I get whale stuff from all kinds of people. I have a narwhal toy and whale notepads on my desk RIGHT NOW.) They are awesome.
There should be a section in all newspapers, news programs and news websites just for whale and dolphin news.
(certainly more interesting than sports)
And not those dumbass Miami Dolphins, either. REAL DOLPHINS. (Real dolphins are assholes, but for all I know, maybe the Miami Dolphins are also assholes. Beats me.)
There can be stuff about porpoises too.
I am obligated to post this around any mention of porpoises:
(There are many others.)
‘Of course not,’ said the Mock Turtle: ‘why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going a journey, I should say “With what porpoise?”‘
Well, given that the Miami Dolphins bullied a second year player into quitting the team and named Richie Incognito of all people captain, yeah, they are assholes.
An animal news section would be SO much more lucrative than the sports page. Just headlines about rare whale sightings and baby zoo animals and unlikely animal friends. Has the newspaper industry learned nothing from the internet?
I am hopefully going to spend a few days in Maine this summer, and a WHALE WATCHING TOUR WILL BE HAPPENING!!! It will be the best day of my life, no doubt. WHALES.
I went whale watching off Cape Breton in NS one time and it was THE MOST AMAZING EXPERIENCE. We saw a whole POD of whales right by the boat. I was so amazed and delighted and happy it was so, so, so cool.
The other time I went whale watching near Halifax the most exciting thing we saw was a cardboard box.
We are going to PEI in August and I think we may have to do a whale watching tour. Whales!
Where are you going? From what I’ve heard I think the best luck is around Souris on the far eastern shores. I was near Cheticamp NS, which is just on the other side of the strait there.
We’re staying near Montague for a few days, then on the north shore for a few days. Thanks for the tip about Souris – it’s not that far from Montague, so we’ll check it out. (Actually nothing is that far from anything on PEI…)
Oh, we stayed at the Brudenell River Resort near there, and it was lovely! (And everything is close to everything. We were like a half hour from C’town.) The only place I’ve never been is further west than Summerside. But really, it’s very pretty out there!
Funny, my husband and I went there on our honeymoon back in the Dark Ages (or, you know, 1996) and we never got further west than Summerside either. I’ve heard it’s lovely out there, but we probably won’t get out there this time either.
Trying to get my 11-year-old bookworm to embrace her inner Anne of Green Gables for this trip but it’s not happening (yet). Maybe I should forbid her from reading them?
I have no advice because at 11 I was OBSESSED with Anne. I’ve been to Green Gables and the various Anne sights twice now and it was amazing. The trip might do the trick because it is nonstop Anne EVERYTHING there, so maybe she’ll get curious?
Is she an actual orphan who was bounced around before coming to your family to stay 4evah? Because mine wasn’t going to connect with Anne, otherwise. Which broke the moms’ hearts. But all was well. Yes, forbid them. Hide them in your nightstand.
Okay, but, did you get to feed seagulls? I went on the whale watching tour that leaves from Halifax Harbour and we got to feed seagulls, it was the best.
Admittedly I had low expectations and did not think we would actually see any whales on that one.
I don’t remember seeing any seagulls, though I’m sure they were there!
The only notable thing that happened on that boat was that I was listening to music (see: no whales) and tripped over some large boat item, and someone saw me and made a NOISY PA announcement regarding boat safety, and my BFF about pissed herself laughing at me.
Whale watching is the best! You are on a boat, on the ocean, and sometimes there are even whales!
Plus, if you want to get out of a conversation with your companions, you can at any moment pretend to see a spout and run to the other side of the deck. [I’ve only gone whale watching with my parents.]
All ocean news all the time!
Hello, fellow whale obsessee! *waves*
This year for my birthday, my parents got me a whale ink stamp, a whale dish towel, and a whale mug from Boston. My husband got me whale earrings. WHALES ALWAYS FOREVER.
I have a set of whale-tail earrings that my sister bought me in Seattle last time she went, I love them to pieces! WHALES FOREVER!
My current whale obsession is 52 Hertz: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/52_Hertz
The loneliest whale you guys! The loneliest whale!
omg, that is so sad.
My mind has put a force field around this idea. I literally can’t think about it without my mind just sliding right off the topic all “nope nope nope, not going to think about the loneliest whale”
My friends in college wrote a musical about The Loneliest Whale, where he becomes a rock star.
“Very doable.” Yes it is. We live in remarkable times.
The Apartment! Just the best! Maybe you will become a Shirley convert. Between that movie, Steel Magnolias, and that Oprah interview at Shirley’s mildly dumpy house in New Mexico where she talks about seeing UFOs and past lives… RAD.
Yes! “The Apartment” is wonderful! Shirley and her perfect shaggy heart-shaped haircut and sadness and wry humor are great.
This can also be an entry point into the somewhat-bonkers Burt Bacharach/Hal David/Neil Simon adaptation of this movie into a musical called “Promises, Promises”. The original production features highlights like: Jerry Orbach/Lennie Briscoe quasi-singing, Jill O’Hara being legitimately amazing and TURKEY LURKEY TIME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15S4M5EAG8Y
I saw the revival with Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes! It was awesoooooome!
Man, I read “The Apartment” and thought it was “Apartment Zero”, the completely bananas Colin Firth-starring political homoerotic thriller and I was like wait, I do not remember Shirley MacLaine being in that. Then again, I was distracted by a lot of other things going on during that movie.
ahahahaha, that makes me want to write up a triple feature review finding some thematic connection in The Apartment, Apartment Zero, and Patient Zero.
PLEASE DO IT.
I think it would go “something something something isolation something something loneliness and yearning something something.”
Yeeeah, that’s a great pitch. Editors love yadda yadda yadda.
A++ Presbyterians!
One species in Australia, Dolomedes facetus, has been known to steal goldfish from suburban garden ponds
OF COURSE, AUSTRALIA.
I managed to read this as “One species of dolphin in Australia” and spent more time that I should have done contemplating how that would be possible. (Do the dolphins just beach themselves and flop around, or what?)
Ugh Flowers for Algernon. Read it when I was 11 and I think it was my first broken heart.
I started tearing up just reading the synopsis in the obituary.
I am PCUSA (well, I consider myself miscellaneous Protestant when I feel particularly Christian at all but I’m going to a PCUSA church) and I am SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS NEWS, A+
Also, I did NOT follow the live stream of the discussion yesterday, which I think was a great choice for my general happiness. Two years ago I did follow the livestream and cried myself to sleep two nights in a row, so. This year has been better.
I need to know what kind of images I’d be going into with that fish-eating spider post, because if it’s legit spiders, I’m not interested in starting my day with a panic attack. On the other hand, I do like knowing about what kind of freaky monsters are out there, so please can someone investigate for my arachnophobic ass?
One photo of a legit spider, no fish. Basically the gist of the article is “spiders will eat anything, especially fish and also other stuff, kind of whatever they can catch, and also in Australia.”
Brrrr. Okay, glad for the synopsis and also that I chose not to click through. Thank you!
Seconded. Blessings on you, Toast, for not posting a spider pic as the link roundup image because uuuuuuuuuuuggghhh.
I second your second. That would have been the worst.
Seriously. I’ve got enough stupid meltdown shit going on today. A giant spider picture on top of everything else? NO.
Note to self: decision to avoid all spiders was a wise choice. EX: Fish as prey may be a particularly attractive food source during mating periods to satisfy the elevated protein needs of pregnant female spiders, he added.
How do we know when mating periods are happening? We don’t, therefore, avoid all spiders.
Because I am the “Worst Librarian Ever” my only experience with Flowers for Algernon is when it was referenced in an episode or two of Frisky Dingo*,
*Frisky Dingo is the precursor to Archer, only slightly more awesome.
http://video.adultswim.com/frisky-dingo/
yeah, as a Children’s librarian I feel I should know more about it? But none of the descriptions make me want to read it at all.
Flowers for Algernon is a very good book! But it is heartbreaking and sad. I read it at some point in middle school, I think.
I mourn Frisky Dingo like a dead pet.
Right!? I really need to know what happened after Killface’s mom showed up and called him out for not wearing any pants.
So I’m not QUITE sure what the whole Videogrep thing does, but that first clip is scenes a Terrible Awesome Movie with Cillian Murphy (and one that I haven’t seen, yay!) and the first comment is awesome, so it must be phenomenal.
I spent last year watching a Cillian Murphy movie with friends every week and towards the end we started scraping the bottom of the barrel, so I have seen that movie and it is just as Terrible-Awesome as you’d expect. Also, that supercut is actually a pretty accurate portrait of the movie as a whole.
TBH, you should watch The Apartment even if you do have lots of plans this weekend.
Guys the white whale is amazing and beautiful and awesome but honestly now I am sad because humans are terrible and I bet someone’s going to try to kill it.
If they can find it. Whale appears to be a sneaky bastard if it only pops up every few years.
You know who’s gonna be to blame for that one *coughcoughAHAB*
Oh, Dallas County.
Spiders eat fish! http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/fish-e…
I had to share because there are gruesome pictures. And one kind of fish-eating spider is in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. When I was a kid, I would have been all over luring spiders with minnows. Because my cousins and I passed many happy hours at the cottage feeding tadpoles and minnows to the pike under the dock. We were brutes.
Thank you! I for one was disappointed by the lack of fish-eating photos in the articlie linked to above.
I knew I was going to hate this and I clicked it anyway and OH BOY DO I HATE THIS A LOT spiders are the wooooorst
THE APARTMENT IS LITERALLY THE BEST EVERYONE SHOULD DEDICATE THEMSELVES TO THE APARTMENT THIS WEEKEND TV-WATCHING-WISE
The loss of the passenger pigeon is truly a terrible and awful cautionary tale for conservationists and for humanity, but that is NOT BRINGING IT BACK. That’s just making a fuzzy copy of something that’s sort of similar to passenger pigeon maybe if it works perfectly. Nice try dude.
Is there some way we can get whales into the Great Lakes? I would also accept dolphins. Either would vastly improve my life.
How do you feel about Asian carp? 🙁
Please tell me I’m not the only one here who wants to use Videogrep to make clips of people saying “but” over and over and over and over. And over.
A supercut of every time someone “exclaims” in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
How do I do this? Is the program language free? Do I have to buy anything to make this happen?
Python is free! You can download the code from github, and then as long as you have the movie file and the subtitle file in the same directory and format as specified, you can read up on the documentation and run the code yourself! Python is one of the easier languages to dip your toe into – I think actually comes with all macs – if you open a terminal window and type “python” without the quotes, python will open if you have it installed already – and you can run it right from your terminal, no need to install any software. With this, you barely have to write any code, just enter commands based on the documentation.
Awesome, thanks!
Random article that I liked yesterday – http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/rainbow-cake-rec… . It’s truly amazing to see the difference between comment sections on websites. I love the one here (duh) and on Ask A Manager. CNN is enjoyable to read for the stupidity.
I used to want to be a marine biologist when I was a kid, but then I actually saw the ocean and basically had nightmares for weeks so needless to say that did not happen.
See, for me, it’s “Up on the Roof”. (She says, as she listens to a playlist of all the Gerry Goffin songs on her iPod)
Has anybody else seen “What A Way to Go!” in which Shirley MacLaine marries four men who all become incredibly rich and then die because of their drive to be rich? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058743/ It’s fabulously ridiculous and she reimagines their lives as different kinds of movie. It’s amazing and ludicrous.
I understand that sometimes Shirley MacLaine can be A Lot and all but man, arrange a back-to-back viewing of The Apartment and Postcards From the Edge and your heart will soften, even just a tiny bit.
I MEAN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExS5prihfoM
I understand that sometimes Shirley MacLaine can be A Lot and all but man, arrange a back-to-back viewing of The Apartment and Postcards From the Edge and your heart will soften, even just a tiny bit.
I MEAN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExS5prihfoM
Shameless self-promo, but this was inspired by Mallory’s piece on Terry Richardson: http://skepchick.org/2014/06/dov-charney-terry-ri…
oh my god that's amazing. and yes, the comments on the toast are A+, barely any commie muslim secret illuminati evangelists here
PLEASE DO IT.
true story about migaloo! i once had to work on an island resort for the day, my company paid for the ferry there and ferry back. when i finished my work there, i was allowed to do just whatever, but being broke, bored and boring, just whatever quickly passed from ‘enjoying the sun and surf’ to ‘wishing the ferry home would get here sooner because this is some kind of boring bullshit’. wouldn’t you know it, on that day the ferry back was delayed by two hours – because of a sighting of fucking migaloo. i hate that damn whale.
I think it would go "something something something isolation something something loneliness and yearning something something."
Yeeeah, that's a great pitch. Editors love yadda yadda yadda.
I…. I watched “The Apartment” and I didn’t like it. <ducks>
But seriously, what am I missing?