… and he needs to be made rich again, to prove God’s power.
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Scenes from a horse show in Vegas
Have you ever been to a horse show in Vegas? I hadn’t, until this past weekend. It involves a lot of pomp, a lot of kitsch, and at least one showgirl. Yee-ha!
You want a shake with those fries?
Sunday afternoon, RB and I were having a snack at the food court of an outlet shopping mall in Southern California. Suddenly, everything in the room began swaying. The floor, the plastic seats we were sitting in, the table, the walls themselves – everything was undulating, sending a hush over the crowd of people. Everyone [...]
The future, as seen in 1969
This is surprisingly prescient… about everything except women’s liberation.
Tuesday book review
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, is the best nonfiction book I’ve read in a very long time. It’s an amazing, complex story told with remarkable skill by a narrator you feel you want to know. The old cliche came true for me: I was sorry to see it end. It’s the [...]
Monday photo: Tilt-shift
There’s a fun photo tool at tiltshiftmaker.com: You can take any photo, upload it, and the program will blur the bottom and top in a way that makes the objects in the image look like toys. I don’t know much about visual art, so I’m not sure why this is, but the effect is marvelous. [...]
Best use of Jew’s harp, 2010
And the award goes to: Bez Chempionlar, the Tatar folk version of “We Are the Champions.” What’s amazing about this is, if you didn’t know the original song, you would totally believe this is a Tatar folk song: Of course, judging from other Tatar folk music online, it’s a little more polka-esque than one might [...]
