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Fenriz reviewing ‘Skeptics Apocalypse // Agent Steel’ 

A permit to kill an endangered black rhino in Namibia is sold at auction in the US state of Texas, despite protests and death threats.

Redesigned vintage ceramics, refired in the kiln at over 850 degrees. Gorgeous displayed but also entirely functional and can be used every day. Melody Rose breathes new life into vintage ceramics.

(Guest writer Kunal Choksi of Transcending Obscurity returns to put the spotlight on five sludge bands from around the world.)

Here’s a list of five relatively underrated bands that you should look into, and for good reason. All five are different from each other in their own way and add their own to this style of music. Pyramido with its Swedish Hardcore-infused Sludge, Lurk with its unique mesmeric thick mix, Fleshpress with its mind-warping esoteric Sludge/Doom, Evil Horse with its obscure art and riffy genius, and Grimpen Mire doing it powerfully, in the old school way.

Pyramido (Sweden) – Saga (Heart & Crossbone Records)

This is one of the best acts playing this style of crusty Sludge/Doom. It’s melancholic and hard-hitting at the same time – devastating for any listener. An experienced band by now, Pyramido keeps pushing the envelope, releasing some of the heaviest music in this style, painstakingly.

 

 

Lurk (Finland) – Kaldera (Doomentia Records)

Lurk already wowed us with its debut album and Kaldera is more of the same, albeit more straightforward. It’s got thick, throaty vocals roaring over music that’s thick and sludgy, a mixture of riffs from everywhere, seemingly conventional but something that stands out in its own way.

 

 

Fleshpress (Finland) – Tearing Skyholes (Kult of Nihilow)

Featuring Mikko of Clandestine Blaze and Deathspell Omega, this veteran band have been releasing groundbreaking music for a while. They mix the sounds of this style with Black Metal influences, presenting it in a bare, atmospheric manner. It’s just brilliant, takes a while to get into, but once hooked, you can’t let go.

 

 

Evilhorse (Spain) – Cabeza de Vaca (Le Crepuscule du Soir)

Artistically packaged, the booklet contains numerous pages with just the dark images of the mountain cliff that you see on the album artwork and yet it somehow makes sense as you listen to the music, which is crushing heaviness with amazing build-ups and riffs, borrowing influences from the traditional styles as well as the crustier ones. Sheer class.

 

 

Grimpen Mire (UK) – A Plague Upon Your Houses (At War With False Noise)

Grimpen Mire are like the sludgier and more extreme counterpart of Lair of the Minotair, merging Celtic Frost influences into old school Doom, making it somehow extremely warlike and riffedelic at the same time. Here’s another classy band that’s doing it right, but escaped your attention.

 

January 16, 2014 - February 22, 2014 “If you don’t have a sense of humor, it’s just not funny anymore.” —Wavy Gravy Part one of a three-part series, Funny Ha-Ha charts the triumphant chortles of American comedy from the tongue-twisting talkies onward. Perhaps it deflates slapstick’s bladder, but the gag, the prank, the pratfall get their due from jokesters like the Marx Brothers (Duck Soup) and W.C. Fields (The Bank Dick), kings of candied corn. As sound film ripened, so too did the sound of two lips letting loose with one-liners. We see the rise of the Depression-era screwball comedy with its rapid-fire ripostes, lead ladies that can let ‘em have it, and provocative pokes at the privileged class. It Happened One Night, My Man Godfrey, and The Palm Beach Story spend 99% of their time satirizing the 1%. Smart-as-a-whip and more stinging, His Girl Friday and Adam’s Rib put the prattle back in battle—of the sexes. The fifties saw the ascent of the bombshells with their shrapnel-shredding sarcasm—Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, and Jayne Mansfield became parodic sirens in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? As the decade came to a close, so too did the reserve of the postwar period. Some Like It Hot, with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag, thumbed its clothes at established etiquette. Now the punch line: at the movies, your solitary guffaw joins with others. When the jokes are working, the timing right, the butts beneficial, the collective catharsis that is comedy commands the room. Come on down—join the jocularity.

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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A University of Vermont lecturer seized the opportunity of a lifetime last fall when he attended a talk by award-winning director Werner Herzog and asked him to make a short movie for his class using a Super 8mm film camera.

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Pope Francis baptized 32 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday and told their mothers to have no qualms about feeding them there.

Pope Francis has named his first batch of cardinals, choosing 19 men from Asia, Africa, North and South America and elsewhere, including Haiti and Burkino Faso, to reflect his attention to the poor.

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Frigid temperatures can cause frostbite, but they can also trigger little-known underground explosions called "frost quakes." These quakes are a rare weather phenomenon that has been reported with surprising frequency in the past week. Frost quakes, or cryoseisms, occur in the winter, when a warm spell allows rain or melting snow to seep into cracks and crannies in the ground. When a cold front suddenly hits (like the polar vortex smacking much of the U.S. and Canada at the moment) that water q

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Spunky Assistant: BUT DOCTOR NO THAT IMPOSSIBLE

Doctor: YES SPUNKY ASSISTANT IT IMPOSSIBLE

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Doctor: …BUT HAPPEN

[title card doo wee ooo HAPPEN OF THE DOCTOR by STEVEN MOFFAT]

Midsummer Madness

Edward Molyneux, 1937

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Learn how to braid your hair like the ladies in Game of Thrones.

Not for the show, I only care for braids.

Since 2010, Kristen A. has maintained a website where she documents the legal hassles she's undergone with Baybrook Remodelers, Ken Carney's Connecticut company, who has sued her for posting a negative online review of the work they did for her. Baybrook has filed more than 40 lawsuits against its online critics. In Kristin A's case, Baybrook has filed for 15 continuances, dragging the case out so that it was never heard -- it's only scheduled for a hearing now because Kristin A's lawyer insisted. It's not the only case that's been dragged out by Baybrook's lawyers.

Kristen A's mother actually moved houses because of legal harrassment from Carney and Baybrook -- after she hung up a sign saying "I do not recommend Baybrook Remodellers" and another showing how many lawsuits the company had filed, Baybrook had the city of Milford pull her zoning approval and make her life hell (nice one, Milford, CT).

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection's complaints file for Baybrook is 40 pages long.

Here's a look at the docket, which is filled with little else other than the plaintiff's extension requests. As Kristen notes, a trial is forthcoming, with jury selection beginning in March. This is what Baybrook's been avoiding. Obviously, it hoped its threats would be enough to quell the criticism. That has backfired and now the company is in the awkward position of having to explain itself to a jury. This isn't the only case Baybrook is dragging its heels on. Another Tort case filed by Baybrook Remodelers in 2010 is still ongoing, with numerous extensions having been filed here as well. A motion for summary judgement has been filed by the defendant who is obviously hoping to finally have this seemingly endless suit tossed.

Kristen's site contains even more details of Baybrook's shady behavior. She noticed that shortly after she posted her negative review detailing the 40+ lawsuits the company was involved in (Dec. 6, 2010), a flood of Baybrook's "admirers" took to these same sites to post glowing reviews of the company. Most of the reviews were posted Dec. 15-17, which either means the company was posting its own reviews or had just wrapped up a ton of contracts for deliriously happy customers. Some reviews even copy-pasted wording from positive reviews written years earlier. Other identically-worded reviews surfaced under different names in January of 2011. One was even posted on Baybrook's website using yet another name.

But the most damning indicator of the company's negative reputation is the 40 pages of complaints filed with the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection. The complaints detail a variety of issues with Baybrook Remodelers, including its tendency to do shoddy work and leave cleanup and damage repairs to the client. Other complaints point out how reluctant the company is to engage with dissatisfied customers ("owner won't answer his phone").

Remodeler Sues Woman Over Negative Reviews, Helps Force Another Critic Out Of Her Own Home [Tim Cushing/Techdirt]

In normal times, the arctic bird of prey known as the Snowy Owl stays up north, feasting upon the flesh of lemmings. But these are not normal times, so the owls have come south with the terrible arctic weather. "They are just absolutely everywhere and there's a lot more coming," says an expert who knows about the owls.

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The Eliot Indian Bible is the first Bible printed in America, translated into the Massachusett language by John Eliot.

For a while now, Netflix has been streaming many adventures from the original "classic" Doctor Who program, which ran for twenty-six seasons from 1963 to 1989. Folks who've enjoyed the modern Doctor Who program have sometimes tried to jump into the classic show via the Netflix online selection. But unfortunately, this has led to some confusion. For instance, the original story "An Unearthly Child" is not available on Netflix streaming and some of the stories it includes are part of larger arcs. This has led to me getting several e-mails asking for help, so I figured it would be a good idea to make a simple guide.