“The Galaxy Song” by Monty Python
Month: March 2011
Thursday various
- Today is Harry Houdini’s birthday. In honor of that, here’s a look at his Scene and Prop List. [via]
- I don’t know… ordering the removal of a mural depicting your state’s labor history from the lobby of your state’s Department of Labor seems like kind of a dick move. [via]
- As, frankly, do these new farm “protection” bills discussed by Mark Bittman — although, there, there’s some dangerous precedent being set:
The Florida bill would require anyone wishing to photograph a farm to first secure written permission from the owner. And what if they don’t? First-degree felony. The implicit goal here is to deter and criminalize damning undercover exposés….The bill would also make it illegal for an agenda-less passerby to snap a picture of a farm from the side of the road, but my best guess is that those “crimes†might not be prosecuted quite so diligently.
- The Phantom Menace in 3-D? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me…oh, god, what is this? Like the at least the sixth or seventh time? Shame very obviously on me, George Lucas, but I will not be going to see this. [via]
- And finally, an interview with Terry Jones. He discusses, among other things, Monty Python‘s less than certain start:
I mean, even right up until the middle of the second series John Cleese’s mum was still sending him job adverts for supermarket managers cut out from her local newspaper.
Rainy, snowy Wednesday
We didn’t get a lot of snow, neither this morning nor this evening, although as of right now there is a light dusting on the ground and a lot of slush on the driveway. We had thunder and lightning earlier, and little pellets of sleet that covered my car. You know, nice spring weather.
Anyway, not a particularly exciting day. I went over to the new building this morning and got my photo ID car printed. We’ll need them to get in and out of the building, which seems easy enough, but will take some getting used to. We don’t have IDs at our current office, nor really much of any security beyond a pass-coded door, in our current office. Although we do have the Gemological Institute on the second floor, and they have security badges and private guards. And, of course, we also have the ever-present — including all this week — fire alarms. Yesterday, they said it was because they were “doing welding in the boiler room.” but isn’t that exactly what somebody planning a jewel heist at the GIA downstairs would say?
(Did I mention that one of the more exciting things I did while in Boston recently was re-watch Ocean’s 11 on cable?)
Song of the day
Yesterday’s song was actually a Lyle Lovett cover, so how about some Lyle Lovett?
Wednesday various
- Twenty-or-so questions with comedian Mike Birbiglia. On what makes someone a real New Yorker: “The willingness to live within ten inches of someone else at all times.”
- So much for that new Dune movie.
- Sperm whales may have names. [via]
- Would you pay $50 a month to rent original artwork?
- And finally, Warren Ellis asks artists to re-imagine the Fantastic Four. Chip Zdarsky’s contribution, the third at that main link, would likely substitute Dr. Doom for Dr. Heiter, but a lot of the reinterpretations are equally interesting.