Diggin’ around
Here’s some stuff I’ve come across lately. I’m low on post-inspiration today.
Unbelievable: Pride and Prejudice not good enough to be published today. I suspect more publishers sniffed a problem and, like the last agency quoted, chose not to stir up emotions and simply be done with the "author" - though it’s still damning, because cracking open the first page of that book would have revealed much more than close ’similarities’, so that’s negative points on intellectual integrity for them.
Way believable, and way cool. A beautiful … music video?? … of the 17-year cicadas and their life cycle, set to music by Enya. Funny how the right music can make one favorably regard a classic pest. The time-lapse photography showing them crawling out of their nymph shells and unfurling their wings is really neat.
And, along with my purchase of HP7 at Fry’s Electronics this weekend, I strolled past the first book (Vol. 1, Issue 114, No. 247, I think) in the Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance Series. Yes, it’s as good as it sounds. I was torn between my two academic loves: things with split hooves and four stomachs, and human anatomy. Ultimately I chose Giraffes? Giraffes! over Your Disgusting Head: The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose. You know, lunch reading material at work.
Oh, and if you think the cosmology of Scientology is some of the best fodder for stand-up comedy (Dave), you should check out the book on giraffes. I suspect Tom Cruise would have some choice words for the giraffe population of Terre Haute, Indiana, but I think their belief system stands up just as well as that devised by L. Ron Hubbard. Really, he should check them out. I think it’s healthier to fixate on giraffes and Neptune than be a scientologist, anyway. Plus, L. Ron Hubbard never got a doctorate. So Dr. (and Mr.) Doris Haggis-On-Whey must have it right.
I’m sorely tempted to go get that second one and lobby for using one of their figures as part of an extra credit question for the anatomy lab final. Only eight bucks at Fry’s (hardcover, new, and only a buck more expensive than the cheapest ones on Amazon). Think I can hold out? Yeah, me either.
Well, inspiration problem solved. And I think I should have titled this post ‘Believability".
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