Son, you’re playing with fire

… with The Vültüres.

Of salads and sun

Item: Can academics write with clarity and precision? The folks at the Chronicle of Higher Education tackled this question in an article published under the perfectly obvious title, “Trading Up With Gilgamesh.”

Item: Dust off those old Ozzy Ozborne records and spin ‘em backwards. Subliminal messages really do work.

Bonus item: Cool new military slang fresh from the sandpit.

Before the fall, when they wrote it on the wall

Close observers of politics noted some years back that there was … well, a certain poetry in the blustering of then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. So poetry can come from a Republican. But can it come from spam? Judge for yourself.

Almost gothic

I first encountered the term “steampunk” a couple of years ago, after reading Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age.” Now the concept seems to be popping up everywhere I look.

Mostly, I just love the word, the awkward union of these two nouns hitherto rarely found in each other’s company.

I’m not sure what the point of the genre/trend/fad is — why should we get excited about how H.G. Wells might have envisioned Star Wars? And I still don’t get what’s so punk about it, unless you consider that some of the eponymous musical genre’s predecessors dressed like Edwardian dandies.

On an unrelated note, there are fools and then there are fools.

Don’t the moon look pretty

Tonight when I chase the dragon
The water will change to cherry wine
And the silver will turn to gold
Time out of mind

All I got to say, I’m alive and feeling fine …

… if you come my way
you can share my poison wine.

Martinis pics

“I think I can safely say it’s the best time I’ve ever had at a strip mall in Orange.”
– Bill O’Grady, after Feb. 24 show at Martini’s Cafe.

Mercy Meadows

Bellydancer and Battlecat

The Shellye Valauaskas Experience

Birthday grrl

The Hick Ups

Show Biz Kids

The Hick Ups

Mercy Meadows

The Shellye Valauskas Experience

Don’t miss the Hick Ups tonight (Saturday, Feb. 24) as they bring their raucous country swing act to Martini’s Cafe in Orange. The all-star lineup also includes Mercy Meadows and the inimitable Shellye Valauskas Experience.

Show starts at 9: 350 Boston Post Road, (203) 795-0561.

I want a name when I lose

To err is human, to moo bovine

Pardon the departure from our established headline conventions. Anyworld is entering one of its cyclical periods of surrealistic contemplation. As we recover our bearings, some thoughts to ponder …

What did you never want to know about yourself? What’s your true religion? Is anything really taboo? What are your real feelings about race? What is beautiful in your eyes? Are you and your significant other on crack?