Category Archives: Frivolity

Procrastination is important to a well-balanced mind.

Spiders on Crack!

Posted on January 17, 2007 by cicada

When I was a graduate student, I fed crack cocaine to mutant fruit flies. I don’t think they really enjoyed it – they convulsed and died. But even so, I was moved by nostalgia when a friend sent me this … Continue reading →

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Deliver us from MLA

Posted on January 7, 2007 by cicada

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog reminds me why I didn’t do my PhD in medieval lit: So it befel in dede that a volvo did pulle up and a voys from it seyd, ‘You going to Philadelphia?’ And thys creatur … Continue reading →

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So true

Posted on January 4, 2007 by cicada

Go on, name one work by Donatello. Admit it, you’re not even sure if he sculpted or painted! All right, all right, here’s his wikipedia entry. From the immortal, beloved xkcd.

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Christmas Lightshow

Posted on December 26, 2006 by cicada

This remarkable light show in my home town is clearly visible from several miles away. I could only capture part of it in this photo, because the street was too narrow for me to back up far enough.

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Happy Holidays from bioephemera!

Posted on December 24, 2006 by cicada
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Homo sapiens whedonum?

Posted on December 18, 2006 by cicada

Rifters.com: Yesterday’s Nightmares for a Better Tomorrow “Natural selection would have weeded moral vampires out faster than you can say ‘Stephen Jay Gould’!” How did vampires evolve, anyway? And why do crosses upset them so badly? This parody is quite … Continue reading →

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Roast me some chicken!

Posted on December 13, 2006 by cicada

Which Historical Lunatic Are You? From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey. What? I’m a lunatic I’ve never even heard of? You are William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, the Fifth Duke of Portland! Sometime Marquis of Tichfield, Earl of Portland, Viscount … Continue reading →

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Don’t hurt the raccoon!

Posted on December 13, 2006 by cicada

To complement the disturbing stuffed animal theme of the previous post. . . the video for “Pretty Dress” from Seattle singer Rosie Thomas. Her new album, “These Friends of Mine,” was released yesterday. Perhaps it’s just that it’s 4 am, … Continue reading →

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Santa, c/o Ginsberg, Plath and Poe

Posted on December 10, 2006 by cicada

The December McSweeney’s gives us: Poems That Were Considered and Rejected Before ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Was Established as “the Official American Christmas Poem.” I can’t decide which of the three I like best. But the faux-Poe perhaps best … Continue reading →

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“Just find all your own faults and insult yourself.”

Posted on December 9, 2006 by cicada

Damn. I hate it when these things are mostly right! Almost Perfect- INFP 33% Extraversion, 80% Intuition, 46% Thinking, 26% Judging So, you want to make the world a better place? Too bad it’s never gonna happen. Of all the … Continue reading →

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