I love the tree octopus.

Aurelia, I bookmarked that for when I have more active brain cells.

I want a tree octopus.

Gotcha. Take care of your head.

How in the Hell do you surf in such away that way that you bring up Tommyrot's last?

From this blog entry on Catastrophism, which is a theory even more bizzare than the tree octopus.

Oh, I gotta post something from that blog link....

Velikovsky explained the miracles of the Old Testament by suggesting a complicated astronomical scenario. Sometime prior to 1500 BC, an enormous chunk of the planet Jupiter launched itself into space, leaving behind a giant red scar. This chunk of Jupiter would eventually become the planet Venus, but for the time being, careened through the inner solar system as a giant comet.

The comet Venus crossed the path of Earth at least twice. The first passage caused the plagues of Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea in the Exodus story. At this time Venus knocked the Earth off its axis, killed all the mammoths, rained hydrocarbons on the Middle East, which soaked into the ground to become petroleum deposits, rained carbohydrates on the Middle East, which fed the escaping Hebrew slaves, and produced floods, mountain risings, and most catastrophic events described in the mytologies of all peoples. Fifty-two years later, Venus returned again to restore the Earth to its old axis and stop the sun for an hour so Joshua could kill more Canaanites at Beth Horon.

After that, Venus knocked Mars out of its orbit. Mars encountered the Earth a couple times, again adjusting its orbit and axis. Eventually, everyone settled into their current orbits sometime around the dawn of classical Greek history.

When I was in third grade or thereabouts, I read an article about this in Reader's Digest that treated it seriously. Even at that age I knew that this theory was complete bullcrap, and could have pointed out several things that made it impossible....

TAR: I know! What the hell, people? If you know you're going to run at the end, anyway, then why don't you just compete all the way through? I don't see that they're getting any appreciable advantage from each other, other than feeling moral superiority. And I love how Bama is totally, well, we're going to race, and we don't think they'd wait for us and we wouldn't wait for them, and at the same time, they're all going, yeah, yeah, we need to wait. Just go, already!

That being said, I still like those teams and dislike the others, so I guess I'm a sucker for futile loyalty.

And could Rob be any more of an asshole? I don't think so! And also? Could the beauty queens please remember that everyone freaking speaks English? They act as though everyone is stupid for speaking their language with an accent, then they turn around and assume they can't understand a word they say. When they just talked to them!

Happy belated aurelia!!

I should get my cats a tree octopus to play with. Except I am afeared it would tentacle me to death in my sleep.

I hadn't noticed Diane Farr being preg, I am a bad viewer. But I am thinking of rewatching online just to see for myself. Because I am also a pendant.

You only need to get about 6 minutes in...

OK, I realize TV is not the real world, but I just don't buy that even a TV FBI agent is going to wear to work a shirt so sheer that I can see her bra clealry enough through it that she might as well be wearing it on the outside.

Also, I now see that what'shername is pregnant. I really didn't notice it before, though.

That other FBI agent looked like hell. Makeup and wardrobe were doing her no favours at all.

Now I need to rewatch too. I remember thinking preggers, but not where Lee's talking about.

As for the show itself, man, is the Larry/whatsername romance done clunkily or what? They introduced it so offhandedly. I wonder if they're going to write the pregnancy in, which is why it's getting this prominence. It's really weird to me.