Sharing this because,
- it’s a fabulous show and if you’ve not heard it, you bloody should
- it’s a great episode in its own right, with a really compelling backstory
- AH is a lovely guy and there aren’t enough of them in this world
I really am going to have to dig out my CD of it now…
Our smiles are stuck…because there’s a new episode out now!
Song 186: “Frownland” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band 🐟🥁
The long-awaited third part of a trilogy following the episodes on the GTOs and Zappa 🎶
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/song...
Our mountains may not be as tall but by God they’re OLD
There are no fossils in the Appalachians because those mountains are OLDER THAN BONES
And Mount Washington may not be super tall but has some of the most extreme weather around!
Eel metaphors have been with us as long as we've been eating eels -- so a long time. The ancient Greeks certainly had their share.
In his play "The Knights" Aristophanes (d.386 BCE) compares demagogues to eel fishermen who had to muddy the waters before they could make a profit.
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Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.
Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.
I had the privilege of working with Senator Dracula on my bill offering tax cuts to family-owned mortuaries. While we disagreed on much and his horrible embrace has left me unable to endure sunlight, I'll always remember his amusing little jokes about exsanguinating my staff.
MARCO RUBIO: “Let me explain this in simple English: Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.’
IRAN: “Let me explain this in simple English: The United States is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”
In 1925, archaeologist Leonard Woolley was excavating the temple complex at the ancient city of Ur. That's the ziggurat in the background.
As the excavation proceeded, he found something quite surprising: artifacts hundreds of years older than Ur itself.
Let's talk about the oldest known museum.
📌As we celebrate the arts, and their ability to lift us up during these dark times, remembering the great John Bonham, who would have been 78 today.
“The Hammer of the Gods” was the supersonic engine that made Led Zeppelin’s music roar and why upon his too-early death they broke up the iconic band.
The featured performers for The Great American State Fair on the National Mall:
-Vanilla Ice
-Martina McBride
-Young MC
-C+C Music Factory
-Milli Vanilli
-The Commodores
- Morris Day & The Time
- Flo Rida
-Bret Michaels
Nothing to see here, just the son of the President marrying the daughter of the accountant of a notorious child sex trafficker who was best friends with the groom's father.
Oh, wait, you didn't know Junior's current new wife is the daughter of Jeffrey Epstein's accountant?
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds?
Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
This young lady is amazing!
The board members, in fact, every adult that did not take a stand for her should be ashamed! She was the grown-up in the room. She was the hero in this story!
Well done, young lady!!
#SheShed
When Dorothy wakes up at the end of Wizard of Oz, the threat to Toto seems to be gone— did Mrs Gulch not survive the tornado? Either Dorothy’s anger manifested the killer storm, or, more chillingly, when she kills in her dreams, the victim dies in real life.
Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed.
It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom."
You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.
Sean Hannity, the Fred Flintstone of shameless propaganda, has declared he will no longer be a Catholic because he worships Donald Trump—and the money it brings in—more.
Sean had to declare publicly that he will no longer be following his faith—because how else would anyone be able to tell?
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
According to the shipper, my package is in Earth City, MO and I am not saying it’s aliens but “Earth City” is exactly the name aliens would use for their incognito earth base
Greece is expected to ban social media for children under the age of 15, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday, joining countries including Spain and Australia that are cracking down on social media usage amid concerns that online platforms are harming children.
Stand Up For Science Founder & CEO Colette Delawalla states three demands:
1. Remove RFK Jr.
2. Reinstate the American Dream of Science.
3. Science should be driven by scientists not political appointees.
Join the fight!
standupforscience.net/march7
By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪
📌BREAKING: (AP) — A federal judge on Monday permanently barred the release of a report by special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into Donald Trump’s hoarding of documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Garland’ DOJ had FOUR YEARS to jail this lawless SOB, and failed all of us.
Now he hides.
The best way to understand the second half of the Peloponnesian War is as a proxy struggle between different factions within the Persian Empire, not an Athenian-Spartan war for hegemony in the Greek world