March 2010
41 posts
02) CATCH (RELEASED 6/87) (FROM THE CD/MC/LP “KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME”)
“IN 1970, AGED 10, I FELL OFF MY BIKE AND SUFFERED QUITE SEVERE CONCUSSION; SPORADICALLY, OVER THE FOLLOWING 2 YEARS, I SUFFERED FLEETING BUT INTENSE DAYTIME HALLUCINATIONS OF A GIRL I CALLED ‘BUNNY’. IN 1972 I FLEW FOR THE FIRST TIME; A FEW MINUTES AFTER TAKE-OFF THE PLANE HIT REALLY BAD...
Primordial spring feeling
Esto es de Helen Fisher.
Helios, Ra, Mithra, Sol, call it what you will, the sun is back. Spring is springing, gradually but actually. This morning in Central Park, I had to shoo the robins from my path as I sped along. Spring fever, why do we feel more joyous in the spring?
For primal reasons. Foremost, our forebears spent some 65 million years traveling along leafy highways above the...
spider taxonomy
Esta es para lectorconstante, que le mola la movida libro-antiguo-de-ciencias-naturales :)
theanatomyofmelancholy:
Reginald Innes Pocock was born March 4, 1863. He was a zoologist who spent a portion of his career at the Natural History Museum in London in the Entomology section, specifically Arachnids (spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites) and Myriapoda (centipedes and millipedes).
The...
“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
– Raymond Chandler (via liquidnight)
