Senses working overtime #14

1 Calvin and Hobbes
I love it when writers find deeper meaning from popular culture icons along the Tao of Pooh lines. This piece is quite cool and I love the Thai master story of the broken goblet.

2 Batman
This is a fun picture. I was pretty good at picking who was behind each mask.

3 Success feels better but doesn't necessarily make you better

I really enjoyed this excerpt. I'm a sucker for movie war stories by writers. I've been spoiled by William Goldman's great books on the subject. This piece by screenwriter Susannah Grant hits the mark.

4 Soundspel
This is cool - a way of rationalising and reforming spelling: try this soundspel version of Keats' Ode to a nightingale or, rather, "Oed to a Nietingael" -

Mi hart aeks, and a drouzy numnes paensMi sens, as tho of hemlok I had drunk,Or emptyd sum dul oepiaet to the draensWun minit past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:'Tis not thru envy of thi hapy lot,But beeing too hapy in thien hapynes,That thow, liet-wingèd Dryad of the trees,In sum meloedius plotOf beechen green, and shadoes numberlessSingest of sumer in fuul-throeted eez.

5 and overtime: Three Cool Cats
Just finished Mark Lewisohn's first volume of The Beatle's history - Tune In. 

To celebrate - The Beatles did a great (to my ears) version of this song by The Coasters - here are both versions. You be the judge (Beatles is better right - George does a great vocal). 

The Beatles version was part of their failed audition tape for Decca. John's pisstake (hey man, save one chick for me) is way cool.

Anyway...

Senses working overtime #12

Busy packing up Red Phoenix Farm this week (first week of the term 2 holidays) and so these jewels are the best of a frantic week:

1 BBC infographic
The awesome Greg Semmens posted this great Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (literally) link from the BBC. I read this entire infographic - I was hooked!!

2 Donald Trump
What an idiot - long may he stay in the race for the Republican reptile nomination!

Here's a great series of maps satirising this plonker.

3 Jim Carrey
I did read this piece on Jim Carrey and wonder what all the fuss was about. Meh! Doesn't everyone think that?

4 Anxiety
I read this and snorted a few times - some of it was so me (and so much like members of my family)! I have suffered from anxious moments in the past and still can - given the right situation. This article had me nodding my head, laughing and... yes - those snorts!

5 Black Knight
Love this full page comic book image of Black Knight battling super odds, a.k.a. Dragon Man.

Overtime: The Beatles at the Cavern
Mark Lewisohn's GREAT first Beatle volume (Tune In) had me returning to this early footage of the fabs at the Cavern. What a tiny space. I've visited the replica at Albert Docks' Beatle museum and it's amazingly small.