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:

The Lincoln Project, despite its own travails, continues on:

The admirable and talented Randy Rainbow:

Have fun! I’d never heard of this, but ballet is one of the myriad of subjects to which I’ve paid attention not. So to speak.

Because … cheaters wouldn’t think to use the proper paper?

John Brakey, an official helping oversee the audit of the 2020 Arizona election, says auditors are looking for bamboo fibers because of a baseless accusation that 40K ballots from Asia were smuggled here. #AzAuditPool pic.twitter.com/57UOBYIehg

— Dennis Welch (@dennis_welch) May 5, 2021

I noticed he tries to cover up by citing everything he’s done, but I notice he doesn’t claim any victories. Anybody can sue if they have brass balls. It doesn’t mean they have any kind of credibility.

And bamboo paper used for election fraud? Really? Come on.

If you like Taiko drumming, this might tickle your fancy.

This is what happens when one side tries to inappropriately define an issue, and the other side is, well, so much better:

Buttigieg is the FOX viewer whisperer.

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— Chris Andersen (@ChrisAndersen) April 3, 2021

Buttigieg is the Transportation Secretary, not the Car Secretary. Trying to make him into that just leaves a gaping hole for the Democrat to hit, and hit it he does.

From Not Totally Rad, a medical imaging blog:

Waking Up is Hard to Do
If these 5 Minnesota nurse-anesthetists can pass gas as well as they can sing, I want my next surgery in their hospital.

Bolero, but now not how I’ve ever heard it before….