penguin notes

[iridium]

courtesy of mrcairo: did you know that it was Penguin Awareness Day two days ago? i bet you didn't! and, in case you missed it and somehow managed to not spend the day in a tux wearing funny plumage and doing little penguin-dances, April 25th is World Penguin Day.

and in other news, the cheese crackers in the Berkeley Bowl bulk-food section come in many fascinating marine-related shapes: frogs, crabs, dolphins (or perhaps porpoises), starfish, little blobby things that might be turtles, little blobby things that might be shells, and of course...penguins!

penguins are the new monkeys.

Comments

[nacht_musik]

Wow. That's cute. I'm somewhat amused to find that Davy Jones's voice, at 62, still conjures for me the mental image of a twentysomething british fop. :-)

Also, Wikipedia tells me that "David Bowie's original name was David (Robert) Jones: he changed his name to avoid confusion with the then-more famous Davy Jones." Huh. I don't think ChangesJones would have flown.

[nacht_musik]

Also also, I didn't know anything about this when I wrote your card. :-)

[iridium.livejournal.com]

googling "Bowie Changes" gave me this, which is...definitely odd. i think his hair is phosphorescent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCaRM2YCuo

[nacht_musik]

At the very end of that, did you notice the bass guitar solo by a man in a glowing orange shirt and a stylin' grey top hat? :-)

[iridium.livejournal.com]

i hadn't, i'd wandered away from the screen the first time i played it. that's awesome...i think in the last few seconds, he doesn't have a head at all. and the top hat is very stylish indeed. ;)