A few links for my woefully under-updated blog:
- Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle is hosting an art show in August that features knitted superhero costumes and embroidered comic book covers. (via not martha and boing boing)
- Paint-by-number wallpaper rules!
- Pictures of a British favorite: eggs and chips and beans.
- Matthew Vescovo, proprieter of Instructoart.com is my favorite illustrator of nonsensical (but useful) instructional drawings.
- Reunite members of the Polyphonic Spree in this online game. It's actually more fun than it sounds. (And yeah, they're a little twee, but so what?) (via Little Fluffy Industries)
- So, most sweet cocktails make me sick (I prefer gin and tonics and scotch on the rocks), but LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Cocktails) makes me want to kick back a few Kir Royales.
- Ever wondered what was on the top of the music charts in 1942? Wonder no longer - Alaska Jim links to a bunch of different sources for music charts. (Oh, and apparently Bing Crosby's White Christmas was a big hit in '42.)
If you can't contract Typhoid then consider trying out for the great Scurvy contest they're running at BigDeadPlace.com
http://www.bigdeadplace.com/scurvyawareness.html
My favorite Q&A from the Scurvey Awareness Program:
Great, so now my gums are bleeding and my joints ache. What next?
The work’s not over yet. Now you must convince your postmodern medical practitioner that you are suffering from an 18th century illness! This could perhaps be the most difficult hurdle to emblazoning your name forever in Antarctic history books. But no matter how unlikely that a patient in this day and age will stumble into Medical with a case of scurvy, you should remember in the course of your interview that you really do have scurvy, and should politely but firmly deflect any of the doctor’s erroneous diagnoses....
What if I die of scurvy?
Such matters should be discussed with your supervisor.
yum -- I LOVE Kir Royale. And don't fear -- they aren't too sweet! Have fun in Thailand.