- Well, so much for the snows of Kilimanjaro. [via]
- I’ve got to say, while I too understand the feelings behind it, I have to agree with Charles Tan: International Science Fiction Reshelving Day really is kind of a dick move.
- Father uses son’s ashes in tattoo. Too morbid? [via]
- This may be the creepiest Halloween costume I’ve ever seen. [via Whereas this may very well be the most amazing. [via]
- And finally, David Sims of the AV Club pretty much sums up my feelings on last night’s pilot of V:
On a regular domestic drama, this would be slow going – and V is a show where goddamn alien motherships are floating over every major city!
Month: November 2009
A kiss is still a kiss
And now, another in what I’m sure will be a long string of misguided efforts to get more of you to follow me on Twitter, or at least to recycle some of the content I’ve posted there.
Yesterday I read this article (via Warren Ellis) about how kissing was perhaps an evolutionary development for the spread of germs. Which seems questionable to me, even if some germs beneficial to pregnant women are sometimes passed in this manner. I do recall Terry Jones suggesting that kissing was “invented” by the ancient Romans. But I’m not sure it was an understanding of infectious diseases so much as a desire to be smooched that led to that development.
(Although if there are any ladies looking to build up their Cytomegalovirus levels…)
Anyway, in response to something else @TwitterRock had posted — okay, a lyric from that Katy Perry song — I forwarded the link about the kiss-based research. And this, below, is what ensued:
Goodbye, October
So, October. That was quite a month, huh?
It’s hard to believe it was just a month ago that I was in Las Vegas, much less that it was only a few weeks ago that my sister was married (sorry, still no photographs), or even that it was only about a week ago that my mother and I went to see Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! at Carnegie Hall. It was a very good month, but I’m actually looking forward to a relatively uneventful November, to be honest.
In the meantime, here’s some of the music I was listening to in October.
- “Transmission Pt. 1” by the Lower 48
- “Nina Simone” by Tom Russell
- “This Blackest Purse” by Why?
- “White Dove” by John Vanderslice
- “Oh What a World” by Sonos
- “This Land Is Our Land” by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
- “Older Now” by Grant-Lee Phillips
- “Dimestore Diamond” by Gossip
- “Time of the Season” by Ben Taylor Band
- “Alone and Forsaken” by Social Distortion
- “Bad Cover Version” by Jordan Galland
- “Alone Again” by Tok Tok Tok
- “Just Dance” by Gary Go (feat. Mr Dialysis)
- “Crazy Love” by Thea Gilmore
- “Sarah” by Ray LaMontagne
- “Sea of Heartbreak” by Rosanne Cash (feat. Bruce Springsteen)
- “Librarian” by My Morning Jacket
- “Pills” by Perishers
- “Say Say Say” by Kesang Marstrand
- “The Very Thought of You” by Nellie McKay
- “This Is For” by Ingrid Michaelson
- “Oh!” by Eric Hutchinson
- “The Walls Are Coming Down” by Fanfarlo