Halifax: it’s in your lungs!

Now this, ladies and gentlemen, is the way you do a promotional video. Kicks the ass of that sad-sack wigger squirrel, don’t it?

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and now, at the end of days, as the sun sinks, spent, into eternal darkness through sulphurous, striated clouds of irradiated effluence, R’lyeh rises from the abyss, and Nyarlathotep writhes and shrieks in unholy glee at his anchor desk, at last we see the signs clearly

The man who took this iconic photograph:

Kim Phuc

is also the man who took this iconic photograph:

Paris Hilton

And there you have it; the devolution of civilization, right before our very eyes. As Jezebel says, Paris Hilton is the Kim Phuc of 2007. And Nick Ut is apparently the Cassandra.

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a touching musical tribute to Chuck Berry

from the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, and at their strong hint in the comments on their Bohemian Rhapsody video. A classic tune, once again slightly reinterpreted for the Twenty-First Century. What do you think? Will it get them prison time?

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LolGoth #16: ai iz kleered 4 takeoff!

And Theda Bara could take it off like nobody else!

LolGoths: collect the whole set!

lol theda bara

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a Sunday night of romance

veiled statue by rich hugunineDorothy Parker has an heir. Please go to max‘s blog and read her story Table for Two; it is all of the things a Dorothy Parker story is except motivated by hopeless unrequited love for a closeted gay man.

I think.

Also related, this Cowboy Junkies song:

lyrics over the jump. Who’d have guessed I’d be all about the wistfulness tonight (or, indeed, ever). It probably has something to do with the first summer storm and the nostalgic smell of hot asphalt sprinkled with raindrops. Seriously, I must be undercaffeinated or sumpin’. If I go for a jog and encounter raccoon babies I might just start snivelling. Awwww, time to dig out the old Meg Ryan movies.

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