From Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing:
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen’t shake, eat another piece of bread.
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Barry Gifford:
David once explained the effect he was after: “You know that feeling you get when you’ve just gotten back from the dry cleaners a pair of slacks, Dacron slacks, and you reach your hand in a pocket, and you feel those fuzzy sandwiches with your fingers? Well, that’s the feeling I’m looking for.” I […]
The greatest campaign commercials in the history of democracy? adfreak: Presidential hopeful Mike Gravel.
“Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it. ” –Robert E. Lee (via).
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“I really liked your voice-over on Futurama,” I told a person who had once been one of most powerful men in the world. Seeing the dvd, he seemed to break out of his polite-but-numbed, repetitive book-signing stupor, saying, “You know there’s a movie coming out?”
Oldest known mushroom found
An Oregon scientist and a Kentucky nurse have found the oldest known mushroom, entombed in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber from Burma.
A closer examination of the nine-hundredths-inch-long mushroom cap revealed that it had been infected by an ancient parasite, which a second parasite was feeding on.
And:
Scientists have long assumed that fungi exist […]
Before watching faces in the morning I suppose I was as messy as a typical guy. The mood elevation produced by faces suddenly changed me: I discovered I enjoyed cleaning, and I started to spend lots of time (about an hour/day) doing it.
–Seth’s blog
