Jesse, I want to hear more about where you went in Turkey! I spent ten days there after I finished my Peace Corps service and it was the best vacation of my life. Did you visit an underground city? Walk barefoot up the hill in Pamukkale? Swim and laze on a volcanic beach? Go to a hamam? Drink lots of apple tea? Shop for carpets and kilims? Eat lots of seafood? See bellydancers and/or whirling dervishes?
I did not do most of those! We went to Istanbul, Pergamum (not the Turkish name, I know...), Cannakale, Izmir, Kusadasi, Troy, Efes, I forget where else! I popped into the sea briefly at Kusadasi, and we went to the rug lady coop place where they show you the art and sell you (not me) rugs. I had some apple tea there! I didn't eat lots of seafood -- they fed us lots of beef, and I ate my weight in yogurt and beets. And melon. YUM.
The airship emerged from jagged peaks, its body swollen with gas
Earlier this year, the Nucleus Gallery in California had a stunning exhibition called "Lift Off: The Art of Airships." Here are some of our favorite images of zeppelins and other fantastical aircraft from the show.
More here: [link]
Unlike bacon, not good.
I'm eavesdropping on a conversation where a guy is trying to work out if he's ever heard of Cameo. Same guy has never been on IMDB. My mind can't wrap itself around the idea of this guy being in my generation, but he is.
Sorry, but what is Cameo?
Unlike bacon, not good.
Yeah. Skittle Vodka sounds better.
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Infusing vodka with Skittles is a very popular trend right now. There are a couple of different ways to do it. My way involves separating all the Skittles into their separate flavors and making five different bottles of Skittles vodka.
"Word Up" Cameo?
The Queen has still got it: [link]
Sorry, but what is Cameo?
Word Up? Candy? Back and Forth? Larry Blackmon?
Skittle Vodka sounds better.
Eeenteresting.
For no reason, a bunch of photos of dogs dressed as lobsters: [link]
Kusadasi
I was trying to figure out why the name was so familiar and why I knew how to pronounce when I finally recalled that I've, you know, BEEN THERE.
How not awake am I? Very much amounts of not.
Uh, dude, no...
Ad: Health care is 'slavery'
In his latest ad, the tea party candidate is speaking with a revived Abraham Lincoln. “Hey Abe,” Barbers says, “if someone is forced to work for months to pay taxes so that a total stranger can get a free meal, medical procedure or a bailout, what's that called?”
Before Lincoln answers, Barber cuts in to ask: “What's it called when one man is forced to work for another?”
“Slavery,” Lincoln says.
As Lincoln's words echo, the ad shows images of enslaved African-Americans prior to the Civil War and well as the front gates of Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp where Jews and other persecuted Europeans were greeted by a sign reading “work makes free.”
