my mind begins to hum...

[H.G.Crosby]

[media]

[theCryptofishist]

[center]Bundle theory is an ontological theory about objecthood proposed by the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume, which states that objects only subsist as a collection (bundle) of properties, relations or tropes. In an epistemological sense, bundle theory says that all that can be known about objects are the properties which they are composed of, and that these properties are all that can be truly said to exist.[/center]

You can always count on philosophers to get it wrong...

[Ugly Dougly]

Extinct, my ass!

The last known living thylacine became rather violent while it was being photographed back in 1933.

Biologist David Fleay had gone to Hobart zoo over 80 years ago to take what would become a well known series of photographs of Benjamin, the last known Tasmanian tiger in captivity.

In a new exhibition at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston however, new information has arisen suggesting that this final photo shoot didn't go quite according to plan.

Based on the testimony of Fleay's daughter Rosemary, it has been revealed that the world's last known captive thylacine actually managed to sink its teeth in to the photographer's buttocks following two warning 'yawns' while he was trying to take its picture.

Fortunately Fleay didn't suffer any serious injuries but the thylacine itself sadly died just three years later, taking with it any last hope of saving the species from its inevitable extinction.

[Ugly Dougly]

I miss the Felfy Relf

How is this thing supposed to work?

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ugly Dougly]

The engima of the human magnet
An ex-Soviet kickboxer has perfected the art of sticking metal objects to his skin.

[Simon of the Playa]

[media]

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ugly Dougly]

In 1964, Kardashev defined three levels of civilizations, based on the order of magnitude of power available to them:

There were also several types of edible clay, like pasa, which was used as sauce for potatoes and other tubers and chaco something associated with the poor or religiously devout. As in the rest of Central and South America chili peppers were an important and highly praised part of the diet.

[Ugly Dougly]

Sexual dreams, varying degrees of nudity or exposure, unpreparedness, falling or teetering on the edge of a precipice, flying, fighting, fleeing, imprisonment, hair or teeth falling out are a few of the most common dream plots. Pleasant, joyful dreams are much fewer than upsetting ones because we tend to suppress the negative in our lives to cope day to day with its challenges. According to psychiatry we have pleasant dreams when we are depressed in our waking lives and possibly at serious risk of suicide. It’s often helpful to ask yourself, “What is the opposite to this dream?” And that might lead to an insight into what in your waking life is bothering you and what you might do to heal it.

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ratty]

Is that a bacon wrapped crab-o-pus?

[Simon of the Playa]

we rise.

[media]

[Ugly Dougly]

Feeling Beastly.

[Ugly Dougly]

[Simon of the Playa]

[media]

[Roberto Dobbisano]

[media]

[H.G.Crosby]

BYU TV


now THAT is ironic.

[Simon of the Playa]

boom goes the dynamite...

[media]

[Ugly Dougly]

Hoka hey.

[Simon of the Playa]

[media]

[H.G.Crosby]

[media]

[Roberto Dobbisano]

Born in Bromberg in what is now Poland; immigrated to America after the Civil War to join his brothers who were merchant princes in Nebraska; captured by the Ponca and eventually made their interpreter; named Box-ka-re-sha-hash-ta-ka (“Curly-headed white chief with one tongue”), by the greatest chieftain who ever lived; Indian agent and trader; speaker of seven Siouxan dialects.

But two facts really sold me on Julius. First, there were the circumstances of his death. He was found dead around noon in Hanscom Park in Omaha in the Spring of 1909 – with one bullet in his breast and another in his head - and declared a suicide. The possibilities around that almost wrote themselves.

Then, in an article in the September 10, 1926 issue of The American Hebrew, I read that Julius brought a magician named “Herman the Great” to a Ponca camp to perform for the great Standing Bear and his people – and about how that night as Alexander slept, a young brave attempted to kill him for his hat, believing it to be the source of his mystic power.

For me, this was like that one good gift at Chanukkah. A magician? I’m there!

And it got even better. Further research revealed that “Herman” was in fact, Alexander Herrmann, the most famous magician in the world before Houdini and the creator of many of the famous stage illusions still amazing audiences today; the inventor of the “Cake From A Hat” and the "Floating Boy"; the wizard who sold out the Egyptian Theatre in London for 1000 straight nights.

I knew I had found my second leading man; and when I discovered that Alexander’s mother’s maiden name was Meyer, I used my author’s prerogative to declare them cousins. Besides…how else would a humble man of the plains like Julius know a prestidigitator of such distinction?

A year and a half later, I had a book. All because of 10 seconds of TV that provided a tantalizing glimpse of a man who was a member of the tribe…in more ways than one.

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ugly Dougly]

My dog has died.
I buried him in the garden
next to a rusted old machine.

[Ugly Dougly]