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I Get By on All My Prehistoric Knowhow

Alapalooza – “Weird Al” Yankovic’s eighth album, released in 1993, was named after the Lollapalooza music festival, but the cover design references Jurassic Park. In fact, some copies of it had a sticker clearly stating that it was NOT the … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Cartoons, Humor, Music, Television, The Flintstones, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged ac/dc, aerosmith, alapalooza, allan sherman, anthony kiedis, barney and friends, barry manilow, billy ray cyrus, dave barry, dick van patten, dinosaurs, donny osmond, fred flintstone, james taylor, jimmy webb, jurassic park, peter gabriel, prince, queen, red hot chili peppers, rem, richard harris, the weird al show, tiffany, village people, will vinton |

Literary Logic

I came across this article on how Spock and Sherlock Holmes aren’t really as rational as they pretend to be, and other characters often acknowledge them as being. Spock applies logic to situations where it doesn’t really apply, and doesn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophy, Star Trek, Television | Tagged dave barry, flaws, fred clark, gulliver's travels, houyhnhms, inductive reasoning, jonathan swift, left behind, logic, perry mason, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, spock, vulcans |

Gotta Have My Bops

Ditty Bops, Love Letters – Some bands become more mainstream as time goes on, but that can’t be said of the Ditty Bops, who just seem to get more and more twee and cutesy with each new album. I support … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Book Reviews, Diana Wynne Jones, Music | Tagged abby dewald, amanda barrett, bannus, beowulf, dave barry, ditty bops, hexwood, i'll mature when i'm dead, king arthur, love letters |

Make My Millennium

I have three book reviews for you today. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, by Norman Cohn – I bought this on a whim when I found it at the school bookstore … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Cults, France, Germany, History, Holy Roman Empire, Humor, Oz, Religion | Tagged alexander volkov, aliens, arzaks, bible, big trouble, dave barry, hurricap, jesus, kurt vonnegut, magic land, menvits, middle ages, nimrod, norman cohn, peter blystone, rameria, revelation, tales of magic land, the mystery of the deserted castle, the pursuit of the millennium, urfin jus |