To find there but the road back home again
And then last night I slept ten hours. I hope I haven't broken something. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of a friend who is not on Dreamwidth: Unleash the Archers, "Northwest Passage." Otherwise known as a female-led power metal cover of Canada's unofficial national anthem, wherein Stan Rogers is surprisingly well served by blast beats. I kind of want to hear them take on "Barrett's Privateers." I like the many-worlds band-tour video, too.
2. I knew of several female scientists of the Manhattan Project, but somehow I had missed Elizabeth Rona until her insistence on buying her own PPE—and surviving more than one radioactive laboratory explosion because of it—came up relevantly elsenet. I'd love to get hold of her professional memoir, but I suspect that was a project for the days when I had access to academic libraries.
3. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
moon_custafer: an important PSA about left-wing anti-intellectualism. Includes a nice recommendation for an Egyptology blog.
4. To be honest, since he had been involved in the premieres of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960) and War Requiem (1961), I had no idea until his obituary that harpist Osian Ellis had still been around, but I was absolutely delighted to learn he had also played for The Goon Show (1951–60).
5. Courtesy ofspatch: regarding the death of Rush Limbaugh, it's time once again for these valuable words.
1. Courtesy of a friend who is not on Dreamwidth: Unleash the Archers, "Northwest Passage." Otherwise known as a female-led power metal cover of Canada's unofficial national anthem, wherein Stan Rogers is surprisingly well served by blast beats. I kind of want to hear them take on "Barrett's Privateers." I like the many-worlds band-tour video, too.
2. I knew of several female scientists of the Manhattan Project, but somehow I had missed Elizabeth Rona until her insistence on buying her own PPE—and surviving more than one radioactive laboratory explosion because of it—came up relevantly elsenet. I'd love to get hold of her professional memoir, but I suspect that was a project for the days when I had access to academic libraries.
3. Courtesy of
moon_custafer: an important PSA about left-wing anti-intellectualism. Includes a nice recommendation for an Egyptology blog.4. To be honest, since he had been involved in the premieres of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960) and War Requiem (1961), I had no idea until his obituary that harpist Osian Ellis had still been around, but I was absolutely delighted to learn he had also played for The Goon Show (1951–60).
5. Courtesy of
spatch: regarding the death of Rush Limbaugh, it's time once again for these valuable words.
Re: “Can You Top This”
Another example of this would be Erich von Däniken. Though it was sensational at the time, his 1968 Chariots of the Gods is a calm, rational, sensible work which merely points, in Charles Fort fashion, at archeological mysteries that may be explainable in terms of extraterrestrial visitors, or simply beggar any explanation.×
By the time of Gold of the Gods et al., half the book is spent advancing utterly preposterous claims (we were genetically pre-programmed to invent ballpoint pens - no lie!) and the rest of it lambasts stuffed-shirt academia for not accepting his claims as fact!
“… Look, just stop, willya? Should’ve quit while you were ahead.”
× Throughout the jungles of Costa Rica are found many dozens of stone spheres, three or four feet across and weighing several tons, scattered across the forest floor as though dropped there: Stone balls, like giant marbles left lying where they fell - not tombs or mileposts or anything. Why were they made? How were they transported? Why were they abandoned? We simply don’t know. Yet there they are.