In the 1970s, Jack Thompson bought a tract of land in the Royal Gardens subdivision on the island of Hawaii and began building a cedar home there. He finished it in 1983. As he installed the second-story windows, he noticed a orange glow on the panes. The light came from the lava fountains that heralded the eruption of Kilauea, which continues to this day. Over the years, lava flows took out all his neighbors’ homes, one by one, until only Thompson’s was left. This month, a vigorous flow found his house, leaving little beyond a satellite dish embedded in six feet of basalt.
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Ubu has a word for bureaucracy.
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Here’s a tune from 2003:
Here’s one from 1998:
Hmm.
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“Vegan cats are unhealthy”, or why I keep reminding myself not to read the comments at political weblogs.
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Information I didn’t need to know: there is indeed Velveeta fanfiction.
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Time for another musical interlude.
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Art and screen captures from here and there:
Who’s that watching you?
Momoiro Clover Z, who did not distinguish themselves with their performance of the Mouretsu Pirates opening theme, join KISS and your average visual kei group as a band that should be seen and not heard. Here they are in their primary uniforms, the Waragecha Five of J-pop.
No matter what the topic, there’s Pony art about it.
And Lovecraft art, too.
(Some of the above via Eve Tushnet, Dustbury, QA Hates You, The Gormogons and others I’ve forgotten.)
That ain’t the Waregecha Five! One of them has to be wearing cat paws to be the Waregecha Five.