KEEP CALM AND LISTEN TO AC/DC RECORDS

Yr Rock Science FTW headline of the day:



Nuff said.

If you want blood you got it,

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I’M READING AS FAST AS I CAN: JUNE 2011 EDITION

If you want book reports ... you got 'em.

JUST FINISHED

Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Insanely-detailed 900+ page epic about Arbre, a planet similar to Earth where intellectuals are segregated into the equivalent of monasteries (where they study math, science and philosophy, not religion as such, though their studies do take religious overtones), and what happens when one of them discovers an alien ship orbiting the planet. The level of world-building here is the kind of thing I usually avoid – not least because at least half of the narrative is driven by heavy philosophical discussions and, later, quantum mechanics and polycosmic theories. On the other hand, Stephenson (one of my favorite authors) has an impeccably readable style and he keeps it as breezy as possible – so much so that even though technically he could have cut a good 400 pages out of the final manuscript without hurting the plot, the whole concept of Arbre probably would have been less convincing and less rewarding as a result. At least for me. Definitely not for everyone, but if you like a good philosophical thought exercise with yr fiction, I’d recommend it.

JUST STARTED

The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
In which trade negotiations between Earth and an alien race go sour after a high-tech farting incident leaves both negotiators dead, and the only thing standing between them and interstellar war is a rare breed of sheep. So far, so weird, and in a good way.

( And recently ... MacLoed, Buckley, Wodehouse and Holmes! )

Case closed,

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GREAT MOMENTS IN MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING: JUST ADD ICE

And now, some words of wisdom from Vanilla Ice.

Source:




[Via Radioactive Lingerie]

What’s cooler than cool,

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ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY THE ONLY POST I’M DOING ABOUT ANTHONY WEINER’S JUNK

If you’ve read this miserable excuse for a blog for any length of time, you’ll know I don’t give a rat’s ass about political sex scandals. They’re a dime a dozen – wherever there's power, money and ego, there's going to be shenanigans. The only reason they make news at all is (1) the media loves a good sex story, (2) the only thing their respective audiences love more a good sex story is denouncing the person(s) involved for being immoral scumbags (see: daytime TV talk shows), and (3) politicians who get caught in sex scandals usually tend to be politicians who spend a lot of time lecturing us against the very thing they were caught doing (cheating on wives, renting hookers, being gay, all three at once, etc).

Anyway, maybe that’s why one of the REALLY big stories to emerge from this episode seems to be Jon Stewart’s failure to unleash the Comedy Kraken on Anthony Weiner the same way he has with other political sex scandals.

Which is a silly thing to be complaining about.

( Yakety yakety yakety ... )

Meanwhile, I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about this as the story develops and new juicy details emerge. Which means I get to see my Facebook page filled with f***ing “Huh huh Weiner huh huh” jokes from my conservative friends for the rest of the month.

Still, after all the gay sex scandals that anti-gay GOP politicians have been caught up in, I guess they feel they’ve earned the right to gloat a little, so who am I to be critical?

With friends like these,

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