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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
That reminds me of a Colin Wilson novel where the protagonists were going on and on in obvious soapbox mouthpiece fashion about how banal and uninspired Shakespeare's works were... plus they were totally written by Marlowe!
Is it evil of me to be so gleeful about someone who attacked H.P Lovecraft early on ending up writing Cthulhu Mythos stories to make ends meet?
I also saw something on the History Channel about the Freemasons, which was about 58 minutes of "Is it a conspiracy? Do they rule the world? Listen to what these people have to say about it!" followed by about two minutes of, "Nah, just some middle-aged suburbanites doing some silly rituals."
Still, HyFy stuff like Modern Marvels (which just had a show on Tesla) and Cities of the Underworld makes up for a whole lot of woowoo.
I also saw something on the History Channel about the Freemasons, which was about 58 minutes of "Is it a conspiracy? Do they rule the world? Listen to what these people have to say about it!" followed by about two minutes of, "Nah, just some middle-aged suburbanites doing some silly rituals."
Steve Martin and some people from SNL did a good parody of this sort of documentary back in the early '80s. It was a sketch called "Did Dinosaurs Build Stonehenge?" It had a bunch of ludicrous "evidence" that dinosaurs built Stonehenge, followed by the statement that since dinosaurs died out 63 million years ago, it wasn't possible.
Then they said, "Some of the rocks at Stonehenge were carried all the way from Wales. Did whales build Stonehenge?" Followed by some very crude animation of blue whales pushing giant stone blocks along the ground. Then they concluded that wasn't possible either, due to the thing that whales can't breathe on land (their weight collapses their lungs).
Well... those clever Welsh did train sheepdogs to herd LED-equipped sheep into crude signs and symbols, so I wouldn't completely discount the idea that they trained whales to breathe out of water.
ugh stupid internet-based friend drama is bumming me out today. You know, if you have a problem with me, maybe try telling me instead of posting about it on your blog?? sheesh.
anyway, I need food advice! I defrosted some butternut squash soup on Sunday and fried up some bacon to crumble on it that same day. I brought it for lunch yesterday but ended up going out. Do you think it would still be good?
No. Better skip the bacon.
ha, Perkins, I'm on to you!
Yes, still good!
Friend drama is a bummer.
Is anyone else having problems with Google Maps today?
I have nothing to say on the "History" Channel. But I think that, much like the "History" Book Club I joined in grad school, the fact that, as a professional historian, they still had nothing of interest to me is telling.