I hadn’t seen / heard this version:

So pleasant:

Via AL-Monitor:

Had me hooting with laughter.

It doesn’t hurt that the cat is a near-ringer for my late and lamented Mischief.

If you have an hour, this is a lot of fun.

And if the first ten or fifteen minutes seems a bit boring, it gets better after that. At one point, my Arts Editor remarked “Stunning choreography!”

An entertaining bit of fluff.

A random part of this report on a possible large scale mechanism for extracting CO2 from the atmosphere.

The Lincoln Project, despite its internal problems, is still producing hard hitting political news:

Tired of hidden fees and white nationalism?

It may be time to cancel your @ATT package. pic.twitter.com/19l8hkMnVZ

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 12, 2021

When someone has the fast comeback to mindless propaganda:

Hollywood Blvd, Saturday, 11:22 AM:

ANTI-VAXX PROTESTER: Do you see all of these homeless people around. Are they dead in the street with COVID? Hell no. Why?

HOMELESS PERSON (walking by): Because I’m vaccinated you dumb fuck. pic.twitter.com/rPskpOqtKs

— Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) October 6, 2021

Only just now did we get around to watching the Thursday night The Late Show, and the musical performance section, which was Theo Croker with Wyclef-Jean and Jon Batiste, inspired a conversation for my Arts Editor and I.

If you are an aficionado, you think, of wellness, if you think the world of Gwyneth Paltrow or some of her colleagues, you might want to view Caitlyn Doughty’s latest historical video in her Ask the Mortician series, The Doctor, the Mortician, and the Murder:

And then ask yourself: Do I fit the psychological profile of Clara? Dora? Or any of the many other victims of Dr. Hazzard?

These are serious questions, especially if you’re prone to looking for outre medical treatments while distrusting medicine.

Beau, who I’ve featured a time or two before, supplies my favorite thing – context:

Yeah, black and white, jumpy, bad audio.

And I find it unutterably charming. I probably should get my sense of aesthetics rehabilitated or something.

Nothing spectacular, but I felt quietly inspired – and completely intimidated – after watching this video.

Colbert & Alda culminating in … squirrels.

Vangelis is still around, inspired by the Juno probe.

  take on the music here.

Utterly charming. Too bad about the resolution.

A rare opportunity or perhaps just a joke:

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I had never heard of mango leather:

Like a fish on the hook….

More here (NewScientist, paywall) or here (if you like reading science papers).

This guy is taking a whack at explaining the 4th dimension. I’m not sure if he’s hitting it out of the park, or if he’s just whacked.

I found this oddly relaxing. I think it’s the frenzy of the string player contrasted with the ood player’s minimal movements.

This time lapse video of the heat dome of the west coat of the North American continent is weirdly beautiful.

I don't usually post imagery of high pressure systems because they're typically less visual 👀 than storms… but this über #ridge aloft has been the product of an epic case of "anticyclonic Rossby wave breaking" 🤓 and is responsible for the historic heat 🌡️ pic.twitter.com/6hLRMnVY2r

— Stu Ostro (@StuOstro) June 28, 2021

More on the upcoming hurricane season here.

My Arts Editor and I enjoy watching a couple of shows concerning the narrowboats of Great Britain, namely Cruising the Cut and Travels by Narrowboat. In this particular episode, the narrowboater of Cruising the Cut interviews a couple who, along with being narrowboaters themselves, are also world-class pianists, and are seeking to create a new way to get your music.

We found it charming.

This made my Arts Editor laugh out loud: