You're less dead than me

So have you had the chance to meet the glorious Croy Devenish-Phibbs and his hilariously dead family? Croy is the 103 year old (so it is claimed at least) "silver surfer" of the web and twitscape who has urged people to send him photographs of donated park benches around Scotland with obituary markers from his extended Devenish-Phibbs clan... with extremely humorous results. This is one of the funniest "public art" projects I have ever seen... may take a bit to load the images, but hang in there, they are so very worth it.

Click here to visit the Devenish-Phibbs bench plaque photo gallery.

One of my favorites, just as a teaser:
"For Flo who used to love to come to this park to chase squirrels, sniff dogs and do her business in the bushes. She was by no means a conventional woman but we miss her all the same.
Florence Devenish-Phibbs, wife and sister
1830 - 1934"

They saw a need...

Click here to read about an exciting new invention: the scorpion shield, which keeps the potentially dangerous arachnid from climbing into your child's crib and stinging him to death!

In fact, out here in the desert, there's nothing at all weird about this, but I imagine folks in the rest of the country shuddering and shaking their heads.

"At night [the inventors] used to prowl the rooms in their North Side home with a black light and tongs, catching scorpions."

Yes, many scorpions fluoresce under ultraviolet light! Isn't that interesting? Just another one of nature's miracles.



Florescent scorpion

But don't breathe easy just yet: "...although smooth glass is a good shield, it won't keep out every scorpion. They also walk across ceilings and sometimes drop onto furniture." Are you ready to move out to the desert?

Go to www.scorpionsafe.com to learn more!

Two-Stroke Rhythm Section Looks Exhausting*

This reminds me of a wonderful duet for trombone and tractor I once heard at the SF Contemporary Music Players, I wish I could remember who that composer was.

Tractor Used As Drums For Sweet Georgia Brown





(thanks steve)

* apologies for the pun, I couldn't resist.

Introducing the USB Toaster!!!

What a wonderful way to start the morning! Just plug it in to your USB port and it will toast the news, weather or any photo directly onto your bread! I'm guessing cloudy with a chance of cream cheese!