Sharing
Weird Things:
Everybody loves a good pompadour, but these folks take greased-up hair to the EXTREME (assuming that “extreme” actually means “a level of bizarre discomfort”)
The coffee tree is a tropical evergreen shrub from around where is now Ethiopia and drinking coffee reduces your risk for cirrhosis. The history and health info here is interesting, but their Questions and Answers are basically a rah-rah fest.
The Pacific Northwest has the highest incidence of Multiple Sclerosis in the United States.
Various “Story Links” (ones you need only read once):
Everyone knows that the potato comes from South America, but did you know that the tomato does, too? More interesting still is how close to the original Nahuatl word tomatl is to our English. Learn all about ‘em!
They’re furry and cute and a little bit creepy, they’ll pick up stuff you drop when your spinal nerves are feeling sleepy, they’re MONKEYS!
If you have the time The Oil We Eat is well worth it. I’ve probably referenced it a hundred times in conversation as “something in Harper’s.”
Links (ones to visit regularly):
A very odd but often brilliant comic about cats, stuffed animals, robots, and sometimes a squirrel
Dinosaur Comics? It’s a good thing I’ll never meet Ryan North *SWOON*
American Elf, best if you start at the beginning
Music:
I want to take a bath in Odetta’s voice
Quotes:
“I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”
–Mark Twain
“Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.” –MT
“So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: ‘Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor’s religion is.’ Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.” –MT
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your live those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.” –Nikki Giovanni
“You can only go halfway into the darkest forest, then you are coming out the other side.” –Chinese proverb