Writer, Professor, and Everything Else
I’ll change my list of links soon, I promise. Do check out Andre’s new blog, Visions of Ypsilanti in the meantime.
As penance for being late in changing that link, I present to you pictures from The Vader Project and this large group of Princess Leia as slavegirls with an Elvis storm trooper. These come via boing-boing and are on the flickr photo collection of bonniegirl. Check that out for even more Star Wars themed picts.
“Moore Plans Unofficial North American Premiere Of “Sicko” In Michigan.” He’s apparently going to have an unofficial premiere on June 16 in Bellaire, MI, which is “up north,” as they say, kind of around the Traverse Bay area. I’m sure the tickets will be gone almost instantly though.
Remember– There’s a Party in Sweden’s Pants!
Via an academic blog (believe it or not) I read once in a while, a thaumaturgical compedium.
I have come across several pieces of such food news lately:
Will Ferrell and a small child (I presume his?) in “The Landlord.”
Interestingly enough, this “viral video” that “everyone has already heard about” is something I read about this afternoon in that dinosaur blog technology, the newspaper.
I forgot the book I was planning on reading while at the gym, so I instead picked up a recent (current?) copy of Rolling Stone and thumbed through it while on the elliptical trainer. Kinda fun to browse Rolling Stone about two or three times a year.
Anyway, there was a piece in there about Pink Floyd (I didn’t finish it, but it was a sort of “history of” kind of thing) and they mentioned a link on the web to infamous “Dark Side of Oz/Dark Side of the Rainbow” thing.  Basically, if you watch The Wizard of Oz while listening to the Pink Floyd album “The Dark Side of the Moon,” you get this weird effect of things synching up. I remember one time in Oregon, we tried this with some friends out there (sober, more less too), and I thought it was bullshit.
Well, I still do think it’s kinda stupid. Still, these “mashups” on the Rolling Stone web site are kind of interesting.
I came across this via the blog “the chutry experiment;” a bit more explanation about it all is available at the blog In Media Res.
From BBC News comes “Coffee ‘no boost in the morning.'” From the article:
Those who swear by their morning caffeine fix say it wakes them up, and if they missed out they would feel sluggish and unable to get on with their day.
But the Bristol researchers, who carried out a review of previous studies into the effects of caffeine, say all the drink does is counteract the mild caffeine withdrawal symptoms people are experiencing because they have gone without the stimulant overnight.
First off, I don’t think I buy this. But second, who the hell cares? If coffee is my morning methadone, so be it.
Hmm… coffee….
Detroit People Mover Remix via Google Video (which means you have to click the link to see it).
I have never ridden the Detroit People Mover, which, as I understand it, is basically a monorail to nowhere. Kind of like on The Simpsons. For some reason, I think my parents actually went on this thing once… Anyway, a cool video.
Here’s a handy four step and simple follow set of illustrated instructions for how to properly move your bowels. Ah, the things you find on the internets….
And who knew you need a foot rest?