This week’s Best of Me Symphony can be found at Dodgeblogium.
Sunday monkey surfing
We’re not sure why you’re here on a Sunday night, but seeing as you are, here’s some stuff that may interest you surf-monkeys, sourced from our blogroll:
Ahistoricality has found a Literary Personality Quiz. Mark was a work of Classic literature, which sounds, at first blush, much better than it is: A classic is something that someone wants to say they have read, but never actually reads, right?
Steve at the Poutine Diaries has 10-second tv reviews. Go read, and ask him to write more!
And Joe at Assorted Nonsense has found some kind of freaky “separated at birth” gizmo from My Heritage.com. If you go to this one, you’ll probably be able to fill the rest of your evening. BTW, if you’d like to see Mark’s matches, you’ll find them here. Clearly, that “y” chromosome was unfortunate.
All Hallow’s Carnivals
More Halloweenie carnivals to freak you out:
The Carnival of the Godless, put together most excellently this edition at The Skeptic Rant.
And what’s more frightening then going insane? See here at the Carnival of the Insanities.
The Empty Arches
T’lakdo looked up at the massive stone archway, shadows playing with the light pouring through the broken windows, and felt an intense melancholy.
It was his second trip to the planet that its inhabitants had once called Earth, and the place had changed. On his first visit, T’lakdo had found the third planet from the sun a charming, if barbaric place. The dominant species, who called themselves human beings, were intriguing to T’lakdo. He’d been to many inhabited worlds, but found few that were so absorbed by their own mythologies that they had devoted most of their resources to celebrating them.
An archeologist by training, T’lakdo had been able to see that since the species had developed an agricultural society, they had been creating amazing structures. Monuments to their gods. They used whatever technologies they had, and pushed their limits. The structure called Stonehenge was already thousands of years old when he visited Earth the first time. And at that point, the humans had advanced enough to create soaring buildings, also out of stone.
They were called cathedrals, and they were magnificent; he’d never seen anything like them before on any world.
But they came with a terrible cost. Continue Reading →
Creepy Carnival Time
As Halloween approaches, so does the creeping horror, or at least a few carnivals with horrific themes.
First off, check out the Carnival of Cinema, which has some frightening posts (and reviews).
The mad scientists are at it in The Tangled Bank, over at Thoughts from Kansas.
We were pleased (though some regular Skwib readers may be horrified) to see us mentioned at The Carnival of the Liberals. It’s spooky how we can swing both right and left.
And as always, Friday features the Ark, where your fuzzy needs can be brushed into a fine glossy coat.
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