Friday, August 29, 2008

Spiritus Mundi

One of my favorite writers on the Internet, Jeff Wells, finally wrote a new post for his blog, Rigorous Intuition. It is an interesting development for anybody that has been following this blog and whether or not you follow the blog, I would recommend checking out his post just to read the comments. As you will see, his writing always generates quite a stir amongst people. For that reason alone, I hope he keeps it up.

One commented, "Lyle," points out a poem written by William Butler Yeats:

The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Nice fangs.

Wall Street got drunk. Really? This video, courtesy of Best Free Documentaries, shows Wall Street growing vampire fangs. Nice.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Sesame Street on LSD

Happy Belated 4th of July

According to snoopster000 on YouTube:

This trippy tribute to our country's 200th birthday was funded by a Bicentennial Project Grant and animated by Vincent Collins who made other psychedelic cartoons. This film was produced by the United States Information Agency.