X-posting with Natter:

I'd like to say for the record that Jon Stewart guesting on a kid's show is fucking BRILLIANT. Saw it--he's extra cute and funny. And very typically himself.

Dr. Micheal Blakey looks like the guy David might be talking about, ita

pdf of a lecture poster

[link]

and this was from a document about the program

Dr. Michael Blakey, a biological anthropologist at Howard University’s Cobb Laboratory, head the research on the skeletons found at the burial ground in New York City. Half of them were children, and many of these were infants under 6 months old. This evidence of high infant mortality tells researchers that the enslaved Africans at this site were kept in very, very poor conditions. Mark Mack and other scientists at Cobb Laboratory have been studying defects in muscle attachments and fractures on the remains of the buried slaves, which show that people were ”pressed to the very margins of human physical capacity.”

Mark Mack and other scientists at Cobb Laboratory have been studying defects in muscle attachments and fractures on the remains of the buried slaves, which show that people were ”pressed to the very margins of human physical capacity.”

That's it!

here is the link to the actual document

chnm.gmu.edu/fairfaxtah/documents/buriedpast.doc

The document doesn't mention a field/house distinction.

Cheerios:

In case anyone's looking for pirate jewelry, including a silver pirate sword in scabbard (removable) necklace:

[link]

Con on Napolean Dynamite, ditto to no narrative.

Yay Beej!

I still haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite.

Right now, I'm watching Exodus. It's pretty good so far, but Paul Newman as Ari is so very wrong casting. I'd thought that I'd find Sal Mineo as Dov wrong, too, but it works. Except for his accent, which is just painful. (He's supposed to be from Warsaw. A very young Jill Hayworth is playing Karen, who's supposed to be Danish, I think, and she's just speaking with her regular accent.)

For anyone who's interested, I've put up photos of my trip to America last year here: [link]

For those wondering why they're all of animals rather than people, I will point out that this should surprise no one. For those who note that the Lilybean is an exception to this, I will note that this too should surprise no one.

Those are awesome pictures. Of the non-Bean ones, I especially love the gorillas.

This one made me laugh in a way I wouldn't have if the gesture had been in the North American variation.

The shots of our esteemed antipodean being snurfled by a giraffe made me smile, as well.