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Hello Kitty Banana Cover (Hello Kitty Hell)
(Blog via Nag on the Lake.)

TERRORISM IN AMERICA

Arrest Made in Bomb at Texas Clinic (AP)

EVIL HAMSTERS

Scheck’s teacher had each child write a “Spring Time Poem” for the event.
There were many, many, many shiny happy poems about bunnies, and flowers, and sunshine.
And then there was Schecky’s.
(Via Silveradept.)

PRAYER CLUB FOR MEN

The Washington Post asks: Did Justices’ Catholicism Play Part in Abortion Ruling? Yes, praise God, sez some blawg guy. Me, I think it may have more to do with Y chromosomes. I mean, look at this happy celebration:

Yay, we don’t have uteruses!
Here’s what some chick named Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to say.
And here’s a lovely […]

IZZARDISM

Sometimes I just wanna watch some Eddie Izzard.

Bilingualism (3:24)
Religion (5:45)
French (6:30)
Pavlov (5:07)
Empires (3:53)
Guns (3:36)
Music (7:36)
Computers (6:59)
007 (4:07)

30 APRIL

BELTANE

1877: Alice B. Toklas is born

1970: Nixon announces the invasion of Cambodia

1973: Nixon takes full responsibility for the Watergate scandal while denying that he had anything to do with it

EXACTLY LIKE ALL THREE OF YOU

None of these was the version I was looking for, but they’re all perfect in entirely different ways. (All youtubery.)
Diana Krall, “Exactly Like You” (includes “Let’s Face the Music and Dance”)
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli, “Exactly Like You” (audio only; closest, but no singing)
Tom Jones with Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, “Exactly Like You” […]

LIMERICK-TIONARY

Artie Aardvark was spousally bound,
‘Til his snoot tried to root the wrong mound.
As he lay on the gurney,
Said wife to attorney,
“Serves him right for aardvarking around.”
—One of the ten aardvark limericks at the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form (via QT)

Speaking of aardvarks, I received a pair of nude aardvarks from the Aardvark Project. I’m […]

29 APRIL

1899: Duke Ellington is born [indigo] [video: jam session]

1945: US troops liberate survivors at the Dachau concentration camp

1968: Hair opens on Broadway

1992: Rioting breaks out in Los Angeles after a decision by an all-white jury to acquit four white cops accused of beating Rodney King

28 APRIL

1789: Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on the British ship Bounty, leaving Captain Bligh and eighteen sailors adrift in the launch

1884: Henry Reed is born, but he has to learn how to play the fiddle before getting a dram from the Alabama girls [enormous tune collection]

1884: Black rain falls near Church Stretton in England; it […]