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For the hell of it, I was checking Amazon.de to see if they have baseball equipment, since our local sports store has stopped carrying anything (though I did get a couple gloves dirt cheap on the closeout).
Amazon.de does, in fact, carry baseball stuff. However, their "Better Together" feature -- Wird gern zusammen gekauft in German -- is, uhm, interesting. Amazon even helpfully lets you order both at a discount.
Yup. German baseball apparently requires pepper spray. (Presumably for the umpires.)
Meanwhile on the "customers also bought" list are such items as tear gas canisters, ski masks, black US Army ballcaps, and black leather gloves.
Baseball is such a wholesome sport for kids, don't you think?
As everyone knows, I am a peaceful man except when angered, and believe the shedding of blood can never lead to peace if one's enemy is not wounded fatally.
This is BBC Radio 3's weekly recording of Choral Evensong at various churches and chapels around Britain.
If you don't know what Choral Evensong is, it is an old Anglican liturgical tradition, originally combining the monastic canonical hours of vespers and compline into a new form called simply "Evening Prayer". The sung form of Evening Prayer is traditionally called Evensong, and is one of the most beautiful church services you're going to find.
An Evensong service also frequently contains Anglican chant, a form of singing unique to the Anglican tradition. It is basically a polyphonic psalmody, that is, a method of singing prose (Gregorian chant is "plainchant", that is, sung monophonically). It is harder to do than simple plainchant, but when done right it's really hypnotic.
The high point of an Evensong is also typically the singing of the Magnificat (also known as the "Song of Mary"), followed by Nunc dimittis (the "Song of Simeon"), at the midpoint of the service. This is a result of the combined nature of the Evening Prayer liturgy: vespers traditionally had the Magnificat as the central piece, and compline had Nunc dimittis.
BBC Radio 3 has a knack of getting the best choirs and arrangements, and the music is very well done.
This is a Flash site I bookmarked ages ago, and just came across the bookmark again. Beautiful and haunting photos -- and some are even interactive. Wonderful site.
OK, I'm not normally one for conspiracy theories and generally get annoyed by those who insist there was something more to the JFK assassination. But Jeremiah Cornelius posted a video that is, well, bizarre:
Whatever the explanation, it is strange that the video was suppressed for so long and that the Secret Service was apparently called off.
Funny thing is, this video was done by an online friend I've known for years (we have the same last name, which is why he originally contacted me...back when the Internet was a much smaller place). He sent me the link, partly wondering what the German translation someone else did means.
(FWIW the text is basically the same, only at the end they're trying to be petted and not get treats.)
His video shot to #1 on YouTube and MySpace. Hey, he got his fifteen minutes of fame. :-D
What happens when you let a bunch of Farkers loose on 300:
Like SJ said, pretty much anything you do now with 300 is almost guaranteed to be funny.
Sad thing is, I haven't even seen it yet. If and when I do, I'll probably sit there giggling like a madman thinking of all the silly sendups I've seen, rather than pay attention to the movie.
