I have always been a strong believer in a spectrum of gray instead of a black & white/straight or gay idea of sexuality. Today when I was re-signing up for FeedMe, a foodie dating experiment/tv show/social network, I was faced with their super excellent spectrum, food themed, of course:
The last one made me giggle.
Air Canada makes you pay for heavy bags, unless they are filled with hockey equipment.
Nikolai Tesla was obsessed with communication with aliens (odd fact one). When he died he left behind what appeared to be a molted skin, like he literally shuffled off his mortal coil (odd fact two), which leads people to believe maybe he was an alien or time traveler (odd fact three). The FBI kept tabs on Nikolai, and his file is still sealed (odd fact four), further bolstering the aforementioned belief that he is an alien.
I have something I call the “Creep Vibe.” It’s a completely irrational gut feeling I get off of people (well, honestly, men) when I meet them. These people are usually introduced as cool friends of friends, but no matter what, I just get a bad feeling from them. It’s super awkward, especially since some of them I have to hang out with in a social or professional situation. I would say I get the creep vibe once or twice a year. None of the creeps have ever ended up doing anything to me personally (mainly because I would do my best to avoid them), but yet I still trust this instinct. Yet I feel like an ass when describing why I don’t like them. Does this happen to other people? Has your creep vibe been confirmed? I can think of five of them off the top of my head immediately. Usually it’s an extreme feeling, not, “Oh I really don’t care for that person.” but “I think that person is not a good person and will do something bad.” Also it has nothing to do with what we talk about, what they are interested in, etc. It’s just immediate.
I love this image, but I must ask, why the wicker chair?
I do not use captchas on this site. I think the burden of work for you reading what I have to say should be on me, not you. Me having to delete a few comments a week is more reasonable than you having to enter text on every comment. This is partially because I personally HATE entering captchas. But my mind was almost changed by a captcha that helps Internet Archive digitize books! Thanks to Heidi for the tip! ReCaptcha uses OCR text as its words! I think part of the reason I hate captchas is that they seem like such a waste of time, and I frequently get them wrong, but at least in this case they DO something! If you go the captcha route you should totally get these.
Well, that’s not certain, but all the things I have been yelling about terrorism and how the US does exactly the wrong thing in response is scientifically explained here in Wired. Hallelujah! Now when I get all crazy eyed and sound like a conspiracy theorist on this issue, at least I’ll have something to point to when everyone else gets awkward and quiet.
I always have ideas for library science related bands and hip hop acts. There’s my metal band DELIMITER! And MARCy MARC is too funny. And DJ AACR2 sounds real. But today I thought of the optimus prime of LIS MC names.
MC P-MEST
This is a joke most librarians wouldn’t even get, but PMEST is Ranganathan’s classification criteria which stand for Personality, Matter, Energy, Space, and Time. And that is a very Sun Ra/P-Funk explanation–I mean let’s go to the mothership P-MEST! I can imagine MC PMEST talking about vaguely spiritual space/time things and shilling Hypnotiq.
Word(z).
Recently I have seen many calls for papers of pop culture things. My recent favorites being a call for literary analysis on Jennifer Crusie novels. And then there’s this one for the Mag Fields:
Call for Magnetic Fields Papers:Scholarly articles interpreting the lyrics of songs by The Magnetic Fields desired for a book.Each paper should be between 2000 and 5000 words.please send abstracts to susancallow_at_hotmail.comArticles should interpret lyrics in depth. An entire paper about one song would be excellent or a paper about four songs in conjunction. Papers that cover more than 5 songs should display overall comprehensive knowledge of the Magnetic Fields. It is important that each paper cover any literary references in the songs being discussed.
Now in no way do I mean to dis on these calls for papers. As a fan of both Crusie and Merritt, I have often thought critically while enjoying their art. And that is why I am sending out the official
INSANE CLOWN POSSE CALL FOR PAPERS (which, unsurprisingly, is without google hits):
Can be about the entire Dark Carnival mythos or singular songs including these titles:
So please, join in!
Oddly, there are many google hits for Michel Foucault and ICP, including this man’s blog where he writes about living his life as MF. Including the brilliant line:
“Why Justin,” said Foucault with disarming nonchalance, “are you not, as you Americans say, down with the clown?“
Even more strange, his name sounded familiar and I realized this blogger and I went to college together. See what community the literary crit of ICP can bring?
