...And reveals the inspiration for "You're So Vain". Although she had kept the secret for THIRTY EIGHT FREAKING YEARS, Simon has a new album to sell, and thus recorded a new version of the song with the reveal whispered in reverse at the end. I suppose once Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" was used to sell AT&T, Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" was used to sell cruises, and The Beatles sold all of their songs to sell everything, there wasn't any reason to keep it a secret anymore.
Frankly, the terrible concept of a large quantity of sharks falling on my head is one reason not to have a shark filled aquarium you can walk under, but if you're not going to make it right, don't bother.
Other thoughts:
-No fewer than 3 different friends sent this to me. Uh, thanks.
-Remind me to add this post to the end of Dubai post I'm eventually going to write.
-The spokesman quoted in the above article is from the civil defense force. If Dubai can consider sharks an enemy of the state, such that the military is responsible for dealing with them, why can't we?
Every word from this 1995 Newsweek article on Why the internet will fail is gold. EVERY SINGLE WORD. I can't wait to read their 1951 article on why television will never work.
Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet–which there isn’t–the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.
I wanted to post this Olly Moss Alice in Wonderland poster here, but since images don't seem to work in RSS anymore and Flickr makes it hard, maybe just click over and check it out.
(For some reason, images aren't working in RSS readers, so I'm quoting the captions of the images I post. If you check the feed right after posting, the image is there, if you check back later, it doesn't show up correctly. Anyone have an idea why?)
I totally missed last week, and you know what? I don't care. This season has been the worst of them all and it's going on the same track as all the other seasons. I posit that that I can start watching this week and it won't be a big deal. Apparently, Jack Bauer killed some peeps last week. Anyone know how many?
This 24 Tag will take you to ALL of the '24' related content on Unlikelywords.
Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus was an awful movie and bad science is just one of the reasons. To clarify, the mega shark would have had to swim 710 KM/H to jump high enough to bite that airplane. For reference, a Tomahawk Missile flies 880 KM/H. Frankly, though, a shark that swims that fast is terrifying.
I've always been curious about this. Also funny are the comments arguing in favor of Mark Hamill's career, which, while it may have been pretty good, doesn't really match up to Harrison Ford's.
Harrison Ford: "So as long as I sign this, my career will continue after this film?"
Mark Hamill: "I'm pretty sure it's a scam. I didn't sign."
In the Esquire article about Roger Ebert a few weeks back, Ebert mentioned his interview interview with Lee Marvin as one of his favorites, and now they've republished it online.
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