Maybe one of these will provide fluffy distraction today:
– Don’t you hate it when you accidentally demolish a house you were supposed to renovate? All joking aside, the thought of that chateau being destroyed makes me kind of sick. (Time)
– Gawker ranks the fruits and blueberry is number one?! YOU ARE INSANE, GAWKER. There is NO WAY a BLUEBERRY is a better than the noble nectarine. (Gawker)
– You know how they told us that the Brontosaurus never existed? I had no idea it was made up in the course of an PALAEONTOLOGIST FEUD. A feud so bitter it has A NAME. (The Slideshow)
– I love this stuff: a mashup of 50 of 2012′s best pop songs. I can’t imagine how long it took to make this. (YouTube — video, obviously)
– These photos of gay and lesbian couples getting married on the first day it was legal in Washington State made me cry. (Buzzfeed)
– This article about New York’s best — and oldest — neon signs, and neon signs in general – is totally fascinating. (Collector’s Weekly)
– I never get tired of reading about how legitimately awesome Hugh Jackman is. (Lainey)
– The University of Chicago got a mystery package! ABOUT INDIANA JONES. It is AWESOME. Who made this?! (U of Chicago Admissions)
– Rumor has it that Chastain is dating her hot hot hot Zero Dark Thirty co-star. Good on you, lady. (Celebitchy)
– This article about Barneys is flat-out fascinating. (New York Times Magazine)
– Can we offer you some gifts for cultural icons? I HAVE been wondering what to buy Anna Wintour….(Flavorwire)
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You could have asked your resident ex-Paleontologist about the Bone Wars anytime
They were seriously crazy.
I consider it an early example of the old saying about academia: The fighting is dirty because the stakes are so low…
(They weren’t really – lot of money for the day there, but still…)
I can’t read their names without hearing them in my son’s 5-year-old voice. (He’s 18 now.) Listening to a 5yo try to say Othniel is hilarious and worth having to read the same dinosaur books 599 times.
I am swimming in tears from that Just Married photo blog from Washington State. Bless them all! Sniff…
Oh, those marriage pictures! I kinda wish I were gay now. So sweet!
Grape beat strawberry? What are they smoking?
My favorite part of the dinosaur article is that photo from the Carnegie Museum. The dinosaur hall looked like that until 2008. I have so many first-grade field trip photos in that room.
All those joyous wedding photos made me cry, too. And made me very proud of my home state.
What I remember from geology 25 or so years ago: Coprolite is fossilized feces. I was told (and now I’m thinking it might be apocrypha) that Marsh named it for Cope.
Sadly, no.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=coprolite
Having you mention my school UChicago just made my day infinity better. Yeah, our school is the one someone would send a mystery Indiana Jones package to. And it is amazing.
The paleontology feud reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdUhNTSqwCA
I can’t watch it and not be just absolutely delighted.
Now how in the heck are Fred and Barney going to work in that rock quarry?
Thank you, Fug Girls!
I too never get tired of reading about how legitimately awesome Hugh Jackman is. He’s a hotty & a wonderful person too! So nice to know there are men out there (& famous men at that)!
Ditto!
Washington is my (BELOVED) adopted home state and i have shared that Buzzfeed link so many times i think people might start unfriending me. Despite having a cold, dead, black heart, i have smiled all week since the marriage licenses were first issued at 12:01 AM last Thursday. (And, no, it’s not because of that *other* thing that was legalized at the exact same time. It took leaving the South and moving to the Pacific Northwest to really appreciate States’ Rights.)
There were two more great links from the same guy, BTW:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/joyful-declarations-of-love-from-newlyweds-in-seat
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/things-i-learned-on-washingtons-first-day-of-marr
Go Maroon alumni Dr. Jones!
I also hope the rumors about Jessica and Edgar are true. Because he was in this movie called “Carlos”. And ummm…yeah. See it. He is hotter than a thousand burning suns.
I teared up as well at the wedding pictures. Yay for them, to have waited so long and finally tasted the victory of being able to truly marry..legally.
I looked at the marriage pictures because I need a little cheer after the horrific school shooting. Still crying…but of happiness now.
i agree with one of the commenters saying “who brought the bowl of onions?”..seeing those couples made me so happy!
Your Indy mystery is solved: http://uchicagoadmissions.tumblr.com/post/38161122385/mischief-managed-for-those-of-you-who-have