First up: The Carnival of the Vanities, hosted this week by Free Money Finance. There’s also a fine Tangled Bank, which is a carnival of science postings, hosted at Grey Thumb.
So what’s next, they move fertilizer behind the counter too? Oh, yes, and the bowls.
Yikes! More positive feedback mechanisms leading to global warming: plant farts.
This week’s edition of The Best of Me Symphony was hosted by Tina Fey, where you will find caustic and acidic postings of note.
I have been meme-slapped. You can blame Joe, if you’re into that sort of thing.
What was your earliest film-related memory?
After wracking my brain, I think the earliest I have is when I was eight, and we were on my Dad’s first sabbatical, in England. We were somewhere in the south west, Devon or Cornwall, there was a gale blowing, and Mom and Dad plunked my brother and I in front of the only TV in the hotel we were staying at while they were in the pub. On said TV played ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS, which at the time, I felt was the acme of American film-making. (This can be attributed to the fact that I was eight, and that Dad brought us a few rounds of cider, not realizing it was alcoholic in England.
Name two favorite lines from movies:
“That rabbit’s dynamite!â€
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?â€
Three Jobs You’d Do if You Could Not Work In “The Bizâ€:
Name four jobs you have actually held outside The Industry.
Three book authors I like:
Name two movies you would like to remake or properties you’d like to adapt:
Name one screenwriter you think is underrated:
Tom Stoppard
Three people I’m tagging to answer this meme next:
Dr. Tundra
Thag
And, in case you’d like to go to another blog now, may I suggest Mr. Snitch, who has discovered this picture of Batgirl. This should suffice to answer all the meme questions.
There is some great stuff in this week’s Carnival of Satire. So without ado here it is:
This terrifying post by Internal Medicine Doctor at Doctor made Thag wonder how anyone emerges from a hospital alive — not that his primitive mind could really grasp the concept of “hospital”. Dr. Tundra says this ain’t half of it. Please enjoy Medical Consulting.
Sticking with medicine, Kim at Emergiblog presents a parody of the Grand SF Parody itself in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Emergency Department
Buckley F. Williams at The Nose On Your Face discovers Aslan is the “Most Eligible Bachelor.
Madeleine Begun Kane at Mad Kane’s Notables goes all Liverpudlian on us and presents Say Goodbye To Tom DeLay — Song Parody — Sing to “Yesterday”.
Joan Conde at Mamacita takes us on a wild ride in SupremeQuest: Directions for Samuel A. Alito Continue Reading →
I don’t normally link to medical journals or blond jokes, but in these two cases I’ll make exceptions. You really should check out both, but “a novel method for the removal of ear cerumen” is a must read.
The Carnival of the Vanities rides again (or at least The Skwib participates) at The Hip and Zen Pen.
And sometimes it’s hard to understand English. No really, what in Kang’s name is reakin’ a trilby? I read this whole story on the Beeb, and all I can discern is that it’s some kind of hat, possibly the kind you could stick a press card into. I refuse to Google further.
Bill Maher has a great joke about even the most gentle, nicest women wanting diamonds, even though they know they come at the cost of other people’s pain. [His joke, roughly, here]
You can refer such misguided souls to this list of ten reasons why you should never accept a diamond ring. (Unless it’s from Canada or if it’s a LifeGem.)