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Darwin Tree of Life poster
From the BBC and the Open University:
Explore evolution in your own home, with our gorgeous wall poster. Showing all the branches of evolution, and lavishly illustrated, you can have your copy delivered to your door – for free, from The Open University. This poster supports all the programmes in the Darwin [...]
In the online circles Darwin frequents, these bizarre Eastern European renditions of classic film posters have been doing the rounds for a while. I thought I'd share.
And I always thought it would make for a fun quiz. This one, for example, utterly defies explanation. Like Clancy Wiggum's famous chilli peppers, this poster appears to have [...]
Siegfried Sassoon
At the National Portrait Gallery in London last week I attended a talk on the war poets whereupon I received some great news, though rather belatedly.
For some reason throughout my entire academic career I had firmly believed that Siegfried Sassoon (whose very existence had only peripherally entered my sphere of recognition anyway) had perished [...]
It was on again the other day. I started watching idly from the scene where Shane first enters the bar, only to have whiskey thrown on his shirt by Calloway. Nice shirt, by the way!
I was really only watching because of the peculiar mechanics of the scene. Ladd was famously short. Though there is much [...]
Our friend Henry Rollins (singer, poet, spoken word guy, etc) for whom we reserve much respect, ran into a music industry producer who had worked extensively with Britney Spears. So the question comes up: 'What's the story with Britney? Can she actually sing at all?'
The answer, it seems, is yes, and no.
A quick tangential story. [...]
As we're right in the middle of EV+A season in Limerick, I thought I'd mention this bizarre little project.
Paul Slocum (world's most annoying website) asked people, via small ads, to recreate a chosen scene from that crappy 80's show Full House. It makes for compelling viewing, and you ask yourself this series of searching questions:
What [...]
I love music.
In a previous incarnation, I found myself selling musical instruments to the 'General Public', a truly frightening body of people whom I'd rather not have to deal with in any great numbers again.
During one of those dark days, a middle-aged couple dropped in to look at a cheap keyboard for their son/daughter. I [...]
