Monthly Archives: August 2009
Friday Random 10: Dangerous sands edition
You may think that summertime is all sunshine, the ice cream man, cotton candy and rainbow sprinkles — but you could not be more wrong. The truth is that danger lurks around every corner, especially in the summer. The sun … Continue reading
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Take that, dike finger stickers!
The Dutch probably thought I had forgotten all about the incident in Rotterdam, in which my Hungarian manservant was accosted while loading my trunks onto the steamer ship by Hervils von van der Sluite — my rival on the Grand … Continue reading
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Cows more stompy, more killy this year
British authorities cast down their crumpets and rang their local constabularies this week to report that the cows are going bloody beserk! Four people have been killed by rampaging cows this summer alone, a situation I’m sure Fox News will … Continue reading
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Your appendix may actually do something
The decorous and genteel Mrs. Pax Arcana spent some quality time at Massachusetts General Hospital a few years ago on account of a tummy ache that turned out to be appendicitis. To correct the issue, doctors called in a rag-tag … Continue reading
White people walk like this. Black people walk like this
As a white male, I suffer a lot of indignities in my daily life. For one thing, banks and mortgage companies and auto dealerships have for years pestered me with offers of low interest loans and other enticements. I am … Continue reading
Friday Random 10: Big Macs are labor intensive edition
The Economist just posted an interesting graphic showing the average number of minutes people in various places must work in order to afford a Big Mac. At the low end, people from Chicago only have to work about 12 minutes … Continue reading
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You can’t sing because your brain is defective
Singing has been a cornerstone of almost every human society for the last million years or so. It is a practice so well established that many believe singing is an instinctive, and not learned, behavior. But if that’s true, what’s … Continue reading
Wolfgang Mozart has a cold…
The popularity of the 1984 Milos Forman film Amadeus — which was based on the 1979 Peter Shaffer play Amadeus, which was based on the opera Amadeus and Salieri by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was based on the short play Amadeus … Continue reading
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The British Government Should be Sorry
Pax Arcana Not since the Royal Academy of Sciences callously rejected my paper titled “Seven Hilarious Things I Saw on the Internet Yesterday” have I been so furious with the British government. Last week I read a terrific book by … Continue reading
Kind of Blue Goes Gray
Pax Arcana I’m back from yet another research trip to the New Jersey Shore, and while I’m still months from compiling all the data I collected, I think it’s fair to conclude that yes, I will have another Margarita. My … Continue reading
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