No Walrus, Just The Eggman

I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
See how they fly
I’m crying

Sitting on a corn flake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you’ve been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long

I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus – Goo goo g’joob

The Beatles – “I Am The Walrus”

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Fear The ‘Reaper’

From CNN, “Brain effects of ‘hottest pepper in the world’ put man in hospital“.

What happened to a contestant in a hot-pepper-eating contest may give spicy food aficionados one more reason to “fear the reaper,” according to a recent case report.

World’s Hottest: The ‘Carolina Reaper’ Pepper flips all challengers the “Bird”

The 34-year-old man, who was not identified, experienced a series of intense headaches and dry heaving after eating a Carolina Reaper, reportedly the hottest pepper in the world, during the contest in New York.

The man developed excruciating pain in his head and neck, prompting him to go to an emergency room, according to an article published Monday in the journal BMJ Case Reports. “The patient ate the pepper and immediately starting having a severe headache that started in the back of the head and spread all over within two seconds,” said Dr. Kulothungan

Blue Oyster Cult – “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”

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Timothy Leary’s Dead

The Daily Star reports, “LSD making comeback as professionals drop ACID before work“.  No more of that “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out” as preached by the Grand Poobah of hallucinogenics, Dr. Timothy Leary.

With their power to melt minds, psychedelics have a fearsome reputation.

But a growing consensus of professionals and athletes believe taking smaller and smarter doses of psychedelics can improve performance both in the office and on the track.

From heightening creativity and focus at work to improving PB’s and enhancing endurance, psychedelics’ positive potential is gaining acceptance.

Hallucinogenic drugs have suffered from a stigma ever since 1960s LSD advocate Timothy Leary popularised it as a recreational substance, with the resulting dangerous doses and ‘bad trips’ making headlines.

The Moody Blues – “Legend of a Mind (Timothy Leary’s Dead)”

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Rice Paddy Art

Since 1993, the farmers of the Japanese village of Inakadate, in Aomori Prefecture, have been creating elaborate designs on rice paddy fields by intermixing a variety of rice strains to create large scale artworks. Each year these farmers plant rice of different color to create new artworks and they last all through the growing season until the time of harvest. Over the years they have made classical art pieces like Mona Lisa, and images of historical figures such as Napoleon, and Marilyn Monroe, as well as traditional Japanese icons and figures.

Making An Aluminum Foil Knife??

If you thought polishing Aluminum Foil Balls was a weird way for the Japanese to avoid having children, then try having an Aluminum Foil Knife fight….or, rather try making an Aluminum Foil Knife. Watch him tap, tap, tap. And polish, polish, polish, but he’s not, however, “getting the old porpoise polished“, is he?