May 2013
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April 2013
9 posts
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Dean Drummond, Composer and Musician, Dies at 64 →
Mr. Drummond, a protégé of Harry Partch’s, shared Mr. Partch’s affinity for microtonality and creating outlandish instruments.
creator of the zoomoozophone & the juststrokerods. an earlier buke & gase.
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What if we had a planet instead of a Moon? →
Our moon is a pretty big object. It’s big enough to be a respectable planet in its own right, if it were orbiting the sun instead of the Earth. (Actually, it is orbiting the sun in a nearly perfectly circular orbit, that the Earth only slightly perturbs… but that’s a topic for another day.) The Moon is a quarter the diameter of the Earth. Only Pluto has a satellite that is...
2 Good Places to Live, 1,200 Light-Years Away -... →
I want to live on one of these, please.
Patricia McCormick, Bullfighter Who Defied Gender... →
Ms. McCormick, the first woman from North America to be a professional bullfighter, performed in hundreds of bullfights in the 1950s and received top billing in stadiums worldwide.
lady (bull)fighter.
“molly had come down with suit in the springtime. what had been a rare &...”
– by the time we get to uranus.
September 2012
3 posts
“listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you’ve...”
August 2012
9 posts
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fought & lost everything. →
“so deeply relaxed. your mind too heavy for words. let the words disappear. only...”
– alex shakur
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sci.fi god. →
“the earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite...”
– a hologram for the king.
“& because, clicking on the link & filling out the questionnaire, fred...”
– luminarium
April 2012
1 post
March 2012
9 posts
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inventor of the frozen six pack of bagels. →
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elusive creator of red bull. →
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“the secrets of evolution are death & time- the deaths of enormous numbers of...”
– carl sagan
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created coney's astroland. →
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alien comic. →
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picked out lipton's tea. →
February 2012
5 posts
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japan is working on a space elevator!! →
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astronaut inspired by a wrinkle in time. →
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suggested the challenger wasn't ready for liftoff.... →
January 2012
15 posts
“when twins are in the womb & one of them is born- sara remembered hearing...”
– dara horn
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the next kevorkian & his death helium. →
“when he finally fell asleep, his dreams contained no stories at all, but only...”
– the world to come
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represented the high, the low and the... →
“after the wedding, drunk but not that drunk, button lay arms-out across the bed....”
– the great open mouth anti-sadness
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grumpy bob, the sword master. →
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bowling's babe ruth. →
