Posted in Music Post-off on Jun 30th, 2008
Today’s musical piece will be a bit briefer. Here’s German Europop band X-Perience with “A Neverending Dream”:
Released in 1996, when the band was a year old, it reached number four in Germany and remains the band’s most successful hit. That’s probably because it’s damn near the perfect pop dance song. It has a [...]
Posted in Doctor Who on Jun 30th, 2008
Holy cow — I read a great review of this past Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who on my favorite sci-fi blog, io9. It’s the penultimate episode of the season (or series, in Brit-speak). I’ll write some thoughts once this story arc is over, but in the meantime, I cannot recap the episode any better than [...]
Posted in Music Post-off on Jun 30th, 2008
I need to admit something here, and although I’m sure I’ll be judged, I need to get it out in the open. I’m a music Philistine. Although my music taste is wide and varied, much of the music that is widely appreciated by many of my friends and those in my sociopolitical demographic is lost [...]
Posted in Freethought, Music Post-off, Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2008
For my first entry I’d like to share with you all this recording of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana:
Lyrics with English translations are available at this companion site to an introductory Latin textbook by Gavin Betts.1 I recommend following along as you listen.
Carmina Burana is a cantata that Orff, a German composer, premiered in [...]
Posted in Music Post-off on Jun 28th, 2008
It’s time for some interactive entertainment at Buttered Waffles.
You may have noticed that our fellow blogger David has
impugned our taste in music:
[Waffles], eat your heart out; I’m still years ahead of your usual music interests. And for [Butter], I’m probably hundreds of years, or at least a few continents away (German heavy metal?). Well, [...]
Posted in Saturday Birds on Jun 28th, 2008
So Waffles has LOLCat Fridays, but I’m claiming Birds-Doing-Amazing-Things Saturdays:
One Clever Crow
This is Betty, a New Caledonian crow who figured out how to use and improve tools.
Posted in LOLCats on Jun 27th, 2008
(Presenting a weekly feature where we display an LOLcat picture and overanalyze the caption, in relation to the photo.)
This piece is definitely a commentary on the human (or feline) condition, showing what happens when you come to the conclusion that your physique no longer meets the standards of body-type set by society. This cat is [...]
Posted in Doctor Who, Humor on Jun 26th, 2008
Okay, so they’re the master villians of the Doctor Who universe. And I’ll admit, they’re pretty awesome. It might’ve been the first, and still one of the only times a non-humanoid is a supervillian (eat your heart out, Borg Collective!).
But seriously, guys… Check out this bad boy: His one hand is a plunger, that originally [...]
A little footnote on the Battlestar Galactica debate: It’s been suggested that perhaps this is all happening in our past, and that the Colonials actually establish the human presence on Earth that gives rise to us. To an extent, this notion is a holdover from TOS, whose voice-over narration basically told us that this is [...]
Posted in Freethought, Humor on Jun 24th, 2008
That’s my IMMORTAL SOUL!
Just found this movie on the Apple Movie trailers website. I was looking for Choke, the movie version of Chuck Palahniuk’s awesome novel by the same name, and I ran across this documentary, Religulous. Although I’m not really a fan of Bill Maher, I usually agree with him on some political and [...]
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