What about the alien invasions, huh? I'm not coming back to your dusty little burg until there's actually something going on.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
And that whole C.H.U.D. thing is totally under control now.
And the Morlocks are actually quite friendly.
the alien invasions are kinda non-events. like, how do you tell?
Ooh, that reminds me, I'm going to be in Memphis in October. Not to get murdered. For a wedding. Will you be around weekend of the 3rd?
I should be - I'll mark it to avoid making any plans, if you'd like to meet up for dinner or somesuch.
Geez, the giant monsters are not the big deal that people make them out to be.
Well, I suppose if you compare it to Tokyo then it wouldn't seem so bad.
Last year, the local newscasters completely jinxed the city of Jacksonville. They happened to mention on August 30th how, if we made it through the next day without a murder, it would be the first murder free month in Jax in nearly two years.
You can guess what happened, right?
Right. It's like daring some asshole.
C.H.U.D. is still the reason I don't walk over subway grates, however...
I believe in my hometown, there was a guy stopped for having a mobile meth lab on his bicycle. For real. Doesn't take much space.
I think human culture has hit its peak. Someday, billions of years from now, an alien will be complaining about how much humans sucked, and another alien will say, "Well, at least they had this:"
Lithuanian composer Mindaugas Piecaitis was inspired by Nora the Piano Playing Cat (featured previously at Neatorama) and composed a concerto for her to perform with an orchestra. Nora appears via videotape. The rest of the music was performed by the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra. This performance, condicted by Piecaitis, was recorded on June 5th in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
I'll bet he could really get that bicycle going.