Something you don’t see every day – in fact, something I didn’t know existed until two hours ago. A Citroën Mehari – 602 cubic centimeters of tonnerre! The body is ABS and it reminds me a bit of a Kurierwagen/dune buggy mashup. It looks like a lot of fun, but one wonders about (minor) collision safety…
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Update: Check out citroenazu’s Flickrstream – fantastic!
Maybe it’s just the zeitgeist in the corner of the universe I inhabit, but I gotta admit, last night’s Venture Bros. episode made me do a little victory dance. First off, we got to meet Col. Venture – Hank and Dean’s great (great-great?) grandfather – a guy who flies around in an airship with Sam Clemens, Fantomas, Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley and Sandow pursued by Nikola Tesla. Cement the retrofuture-steampunk-Venture connection? I’d say so. Also – a glimpse at the origin of the Guild of Calamitous Intent. Then, during a commecial break, this ad for Scion.
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Say what you will about the Scion line (I understand many are put off by the officialitude of the Scion factory mod parts) the fact remains that what they are trying to do is to tap into the customizer vibe – something that I noted earlier.
Update – I predict the orb is either a seed (universal self-replicator as in The Diamond Age) or a complete kludge/failure – or both. If it’s a seed, I really appreciate its incremental genesis – like the Cryptonomicon in the eponymous novel. Is Jackson Publick a fan of Neal Stephenson?
I took a camera with me this morning when I ran the dogs. We’ve had three weeks of very wet weather (a flash flood killed a girl a few days ago and a tornado killed a lady up the road in Northwood a week and a half ago) – if it’s not pouring all day, there’s almost always thunderstorms in the afternoon. I figured the wet ought to encourage fungi to fruit – turned out to be a good guess. I’ve pulled Toads and Toadstools
The Oyster River in August is normally low enough to walk across using stepping stones without getting your feet wet – this is obviously not a normal year.
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I think one of the local bruins ate too many green apples and gave himself an upset stomach.
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The Sun God. It’s not hard to see why toadstools are so important to old religions and folkways. You’ve got solar discs and phalluses emerging spontaneously from Mom Earth – let the myth making proceed!
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The big guy – Amanita. I still like Wasson’s soma theory, even if there are other equally good candidates – its a rippin’ idea.
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A big nod to Lord Whimsy for the proximate stimulus and to the Querencistas, where fungoblogging is a tradition.
