2 Tone was both a British music genre and a record label where black met white; fired by the great Thatcher divide.
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posted by adamvasco
on Jul 30, 2011 -
58 comments
It's Parade Day, the culmination of the island's biggest and best party of the year,
Key West's Fantasy Fest 2008. It's a small party, (in that Key West is only 4-by-2 miles in size), but it increases Key West's population from 27,000 to over 100,000! What's the attraction? Well aside from the
body painting [
NSFW], casual debauchery [
NSFW, GGW, and possible WTF],
great freakin' music,
freaks getting freaky over freak nakedness,
photo ops [
again, NSFW], and
a pretty much non-stop outrageous gay-straight-bi-leather-whatever One Human Family sexy
fun fun fun [
NSFW] celebration, Parade Night is miles and miles/five hours of
out-of-this-world partying island festival [
possible NSFW, whatchutink]!
Come now!
posted by humannaire
on Oct 25, 2008 -
6 comments
Who will volunteer to be our new Space Messiah? In these selfish times, maybe a little good old-fashioned self-sacrifice in the name of space exploration is just what the doctor ordered to restore humanity's faith in scientific truth and reason. On the other hand, could this bold proposal somehow be connected to recent revelations about the potential influence of mind-controlling parasites on human culture, as discussed in
this MeFi thread on toxoplasmosis? Could it be that these
little red guys from the sky are actually martian invaders who've been the secret puppet masters behind the world's recent troubles all along, as they carry out their fiendishly clever plot to drive humanity to the brink of self-destruction just so we'll be desperate enough to willingly offer up one of our own in a gesture of symbolic heroism? Will our new astronaut saviour ultimately end up as nothing more than a quick snack for the unnameable horror that awaits on the surface of the red planet?
posted by saulgoodman
on Aug 4, 2006 -
17 comments
What the World May Come To. "THE school books tell us that the earth is a round globe, or, to be more exact, an oblate spheroid - a ball with the ends slightly flattened, as in an orange. This is, of course, true of the general appearance of the earth as it might be viewed from the moon or from Mars, and we may see it proved more or less by watching the earth's shadow on the lunar surface during an eclipse of the moon. But the earth is slowly but surely changing its shape, and already it is in process of becoming a tetraedron, or a pyramid." (Via
Incoming Signals, which quite properly calls the author "sort of the
Time Cube guy of the World War One era.")
posted by languagehat
on Jan 17, 2005 -
20 comments
The Air Loom Gang were undercover Jacobin revolutionaries, bent on forcing Britain into a disastrous war with Revolutionary France; operating a device hidden in a London basement, they beamed their diabolical rays directly into the brain of
James Tilly Matthews, who drew detailed technical diagrams of the device while confined at
Bedlam. The spiritual father of all paranoid schizophrenics since, he had a fascinating set of delusions. [More inside.]
posted by languagehat
on Sep 4, 2003 -
8 comments
Magnificent Obscessions II. In the original post, we had a blast exploring odd sites in which people displayed eccentric talents. MOs walk a thin line between genius and madness. These are people with "too much time on their hands." How I envy their crackpot devotion, energy and perfectionism. These are the True Geeks! (Fresh examples inside...)
posted by grumblebee
on Sep 19, 2002 -
14 comments
