Every now and then when my poor brain is too fried to go into too much detail on stuff we'll just have a quick recap of some of the nonsense that has just flicked through my brain recently.
Ok, so I've been catching up on watching Castle today (yes it's got the guy from Firefly in it, but it's good fun in its own right so, ping! Thirteenth Telly Recommendation). By a bizarre stroke of fate (heh - they're always saying that in the 60s Legion of Super Heroes comics No1 son and I have been reading) I watched two episodes back to back that were shown a fortnight apart - I'd watched the one in between 'live'. Both of them had references to a 'Sleestak', something I had only heard for the first time recently on the track 'Cloisonné' from They Might Be Giants' new album Join Us (I call upon the power of the Sword of Omens to extend the Third Music Recommendation to include all the tracks off that album, not just Can't Keep Johnny Down as mentioned here).
Yes, it doesn't take much effort to google something, but it must only be done when it's mentioned three times in fairly quick succession. It's a bit like Beetlejuice in that way. Or something.
Hands up who knew a 'Sleestak' was one of these from Land of the Lost?
I'd heard of the series, but had never seen it, its 90s remake or the film with Will Ferrell from a few years back. I don't know how well known it is in this country, but I checked with my friend the American Pop Cultural Attaché in London and she remembered 'em with barely a prompt. The Wikipedia entry makes it sound really odd for what was essentially a kids' series which makes it right up my street. Will look out for it, I think.
Oh, and this guy does Monet pictures featuring Sleestaks. Cool.
Re the Wankel Rotary engine that I mentioned the other night. Well, walking home from work what was on the corner but a Mazda RX8 that is powered by... Ah, you're way ahead of me.
Pity I didn't see it in motion. I'd be curious to hear what its engine sounds like.
I can't find the photo from work that states 'NO UNATHORISED ENTRY' - I'll have to take another one tomorrow. But yesterday I came across a couple of odd misspellings. We all do this, so I'm not pointing any fingers, but they stood out a bit.
On the ticket office-cum-shop for the North Bay miniature railway:
And this was on my orange juice carton:
And that's July over and done with. Not the best there's been. Join me for a much better August.
More soonliest.
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