Apparently it’s Poetry Month. I like annoying poetry fans with my follow-up to Audre Lorde’s oft over-quoted line, “Poetry is not a luxury”: “Yeah, luxuries are things people want and are willing to pay big bucks for.”
But seriously, folks…the reason I like the tiger warning sign below is that it has more poetry than a sign that simply says “Danger: Tiger”.
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Over at VidKing, the celebrity blog where I’m acting as interim manager, there’s a whole whack of new celebrity videos every day. Give it a peek over your lunch or coffee break!
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(And yes, we’ve got that scene from the upcoming film War Inc. where Hilary Duff drops a scorpion down her pants and a teenage Vin Diesel showing off his fresh moves in an old breakdancing video. You can’t say I never did nuthin’ for ya.)
Now that someone has started a blog called Stuff White Trash People Like, may I suggest “Tacky High School Yearbook Photos” as an item for them to cover? Should they need an example, may I suggest the photo below, which says so much in a mere 406 by 604 pixels…
Bringing us closer to Idiocracy, one bad decision at a time. Next stop: a subprime loan!
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
(Yes, it’s quite possible that it’s not a high school yearbook photo, but that was the photo’s title, and gave me a good laugh. It could very well be an engagement photo, from that part of the country where marriage proposals go like this: “You’re what?“)
Eva sent me a note about this video, which features an accordion performance about the chemistry behind the coffee experience:
Accordions, coffee and science — three things I love!
For the curious, here are the lyrics to the coffee song in the video (the tune used is from Where Do They Make Balloons? by They Might Be Giants):
Coffee is acidic, its acidic taste comes
From acids lending protons to receptors on the toungue.
Longer roasting, finer grind, and brewing much more hot
Usually brings out more of the acid coffee’s got.Coffee has over 800 aromatic compounds
But only a few of them make the coffee smell, it’s found.
Compounds called the furans are the largest group, you see
They’re colourless, volatile, and smell quite caramely.Coffee, coffee is fun to drink.
Coffee, there’s more to it than you think.Compounds that contribute to bitterness include trigonelline,
Furfuryl alcohol, quinic acid, and caffeine.
Bitterness in coffee is associated with
More dissolved solids, and roasting for too long.Caffeine’s formula is C8H10N4O2.
It is coffee’s stimulant, my favourite molecule.
It bonds to the adenosine receptors in the brain,
Blocking the adenosine and keeping you awake!Coffee, coffee is fun to drink!
Coffee, there’s more to it than you think!
One more tribute to Mister “Guns ‘N’ Moses” before bedtime. This one’s a little more serious than the previous two:
Photos courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Here’s some text that Miss Fipi Lele provided along with the photos:
With the conservative activism of his later years, let us not forget that Mr. Heston had been active in the civil rights movement. The first photo above was taken in 1961… when Heston walked a picket line outside a segregated movie theater in Oklahoma. He also attended the March on Washington in 1963, famously photographed alongside Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.
Tay Zonday gives Chris Crocker some chocolate pain.
… you can catch up on celebrity videos including this scene — from the latest South Park — where internet celebrities duke it out.
