Mushrooms on the mulch pile and galumphing through the Internet

mushrooms on mulch pile

Above is a picture I took yesterday of a little cluster of mushrooms I discovered on a pile of mulch in our yard.

Below are a few Internet links from the last couple of weeks. Highlights include why creative people are eccentric, six exercise machines to avoid, word of a new Sherlock Holmes story on the way, and the power of the Dark Side.

“Legal” disclaimers at the bottom of emails are useless and . . . → Read More: Mushrooms on the mulch pile and galumphing through the Internet

A mushroom and weekend reading links: 15 October 2010

mushroom

A little something for everyone this time–happy reading!

“Big Bang Theory” meets “Green Acres”: the trend of IT onshoring US electrical grid too crappy to be vulnerable to terrorist attack, say physicists the music business is perhaps healthier than you thought Oops she did it again: A few comments about the new Jillian Michaels DVD on kettlebells the amazing grass roofs of Norway “The Dungeon Master,” by Sam Lipsyte Why students are fleeing the . . . → Read More: A mushroom and weekend reading links: 15 October 2010

A brain in my driveway and weekend reading links: October 8, 2010

mushroom_brain_driveway

Last night when I pulled into my driveway it was dark out, but I could dimly see by the light of the stars and moon. So I was startled when I thought I saw someone’s brain in the middle of my driveway.

After a brief investigation, with the reassurance of this morning’s light, I’m not sure if I should be happy at discovering the object was not, after all, someone’s brain in my driveway, . . . → Read More: A brain in my driveway and weekend reading links: October 8, 2010

The Cthulhu Mushroom

It must have been the rain.

A rain that for days soaked deep into the ground, reaching far down to unimaginable depths, where it must have awakened something Old and Ancient. Something so horrible that I shudder, even now, to recall those fateful moments when, on that day, I journeyed too close whence it emerged. My footfalls fell too close, and I stumbled into a radius of unspeakable nightmares that will forever haunt my sleep.

. . . → Read More: The Cthulhu Mushroom