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This entry will be a primer on sea invertebrates. How odd, considering it's a concert entry and not a wildlife center entry. Oh, they appreciate what I do, all right, I just don't get exposed to invertebrates other than Rosie and the multitudes of insects hanging out outside.
Scallops squirt water when they're on land. When they're in water, squirting pushes them back. When they're out of water, it makes a mess that's easily solved by sticking my leg under the high-powered and very noisy dryer. They also have eyes along the edge of the shell. These eyes can detect subtle changes in light, but can not resolve shape. Clams and mussels don't have eyes at all. Starfish have eyes that are little more than photosensitive patches of skin on the tips of their arms. They seem more advanced than mollusks otherwise, and they can regenerate and eject their stomachs. Like intelligence, advancement is not something that could be quantified.
Spider crabs are covered with tiny hairs that pick up gunk and hide them.
When snails and chambered nautiluses grow, they grow outwards, furthering the spiral.
I wish we could breathe underwater. Swimming is our way of fulfilling our dream of flying, but it's not the same.
Moon snails have big feet.
She says we need a tardis for time tourism. I say we only really need a modified toaster. Now, as long as we don't touch anything, we won't live in a world ruled by Ned Flanders.
I asked someone what a raccoon would do if it saw a mirror, and she said they'd react like a cat: they'd get scared by it and run away. Monkeys don't recognize themselves in the mirrors, but apes do. There's a Youtube video of a raccoon posturing at it. I don't think parrots recognize their own reflections even though they can form sentences.
I do not associate the Blue Danube with rivers.
I associate it with space and floating potato chips and ants.
Ma Vlast was written by a man who participated in the failed 1848 revolutions.
The Arabs were a bit more successful. Four revolutions, a fifth is nigh and even if it falters, the Syrian Arab Republic is severely crippled. There's never going to be a return to normalcy. And they're bombing Damascus right now. I thought he won. I'm sure this would be a public relations disaster if it wasn't for everyone shitting themselves over Islamism™. I'm going to place some blame on the west for that fuckup. Islamism exists so that governments can bomb their own people and everyone will be falling over themselves excusing it even when they don't have legs anymore.
I really hope an errant missile strikes the war tourists in the Golan Heights. What a repulsive idea, worse than slum tourism. They're about to piss themselves with joy because the destruction of Damascus means the rapture or something.
Duke Ellington, huh? Cool. I was going to say vortex didn't sound very vortex-like, but I blame the fact that my brain felt like it was going to burst out of my skull.
Yeah, I can hear the Beethoven and the Renaissance in Schuman's symphony.
The encore was Water Music.
he said: it's noise
she said: someone must have pulled the fire alarm. There was a fire truck outside of Park Street and they were letting someone in, so it mustn't be that serious.
There Are Doors doesn't read like a Gene Wolfe novel. For one, I didn't have to look up any words.
He's deceptive like that, I guess.
burning question: WHERE DO YOU DISAPPEAR TO ON DECEMBER 1 1985?
Scallops squirt water when they're on land. When they're in water, squirting pushes them back. When they're out of water, it makes a mess that's easily solved by sticking my leg under the high-powered and very noisy dryer. They also have eyes along the edge of the shell. These eyes can detect subtle changes in light, but can not resolve shape. Clams and mussels don't have eyes at all. Starfish have eyes that are little more than photosensitive patches of skin on the tips of their arms. They seem more advanced than mollusks otherwise, and they can regenerate and eject their stomachs. Like intelligence, advancement is not something that could be quantified.
Spider crabs are covered with tiny hairs that pick up gunk and hide them.
When snails and chambered nautiluses grow, they grow outwards, furthering the spiral.
I wish we could breathe underwater. Swimming is our way of fulfilling our dream of flying, but it's not the same.
Moon snails have big feet.
She says we need a tardis for time tourism. I say we only really need a modified toaster. Now, as long as we don't touch anything, we won't live in a world ruled by Ned Flanders.
I asked someone what a raccoon would do if it saw a mirror, and she said they'd react like a cat: they'd get scared by it and run away. Monkeys don't recognize themselves in the mirrors, but apes do. There's a Youtube video of a raccoon posturing at it. I don't think parrots recognize their own reflections even though they can form sentences.
I do not associate the Blue Danube with rivers.
I associate it with space and floating potato chips and ants.
Ma Vlast was written by a man who participated in the failed 1848 revolutions.
The Arabs were a bit more successful. Four revolutions, a fifth is nigh and even if it falters, the Syrian Arab Republic is severely crippled. There's never going to be a return to normalcy. And they're bombing Damascus right now. I thought he won. I'm sure this would be a public relations disaster if it wasn't for everyone shitting themselves over Islamism™. I'm going to place some blame on the west for that fuckup. Islamism exists so that governments can bomb their own people and everyone will be falling over themselves excusing it even when they don't have legs anymore.
I really hope an errant missile strikes the war tourists in the Golan Heights. What a repulsive idea, worse than slum tourism. They're about to piss themselves with joy because the destruction of Damascus means the rapture or something.
Duke Ellington, huh? Cool. I was going to say vortex didn't sound very vortex-like, but I blame the fact that my brain felt like it was going to burst out of my skull.
Yeah, I can hear the Beethoven and the Renaissance in Schuman's symphony.
The encore was Water Music.
he said: it's noise
she said: someone must have pulled the fire alarm. There was a fire truck outside of Park Street and they were letting someone in, so it mustn't be that serious.
There Are Doors doesn't read like a Gene Wolfe novel. For one, I didn't have to look up any words.
He's deceptive like that, I guess.
burning question: WHERE DO YOU DISAPPEAR TO ON DECEMBER 1 1985?
