Sarah Jamison

Stephen King and Drew Barrymore at the premiere of Firestarter.

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African Daisy. Gerbera jamesonii. (x).

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All the Birds Singing - Evie Wyld

The paperback cover for Evie Wyld’s hugely impressive second novel could be seen as purely decorative, however the design also alludes to a significant scene in the story.

The cyclical form of the narrative itself is also echoed in the book format, with the jacket flaps opening out to reveal a repeated, overlapping pattern.

Designed and illustrated in house with photography by Sophie Broadbridge,  All the Birds, Singing will be published by Vintage in May.

In 1987, paleontologist Tom Rich was leading a dig at Dinosaur Cove southwest of Melbourne when student Helen Wilson asked him what reward she’d get if she found a dinosaur jaw. He said he’d give her a kilo (2.2 pounds) of chocolate. She did, and he did.

Encouraged, the students asked Rich what they’d get if they found a mammal bone. These are fairly rare among dinosaur fossils in Australia, so Rich rashly promised a cubic meter of chocolate — 35 cubic feet, or about a ton.

The cove was “dug out” by 1994, and paleontologists shut down the dig. Rich sent a curious unclassified bone, perhaps a turtle humerus, to two colleagues, who recognized it as belonging to an early echidna, or spiny anteater — a mammal.

Rich now owed the students $10,000 worth of chocolate. “It turns out that it is technically impossible to make a cubic meter of chocolate, because the center would never solidify,” he told National Geographic in 2005. So he arranged for a local Cadbury factory to make a cubic meter of cocoa butter, and then turned the students loose in a room full of chocolate bars.

“It was a bit like Willy Wonka,” Wilson said. “There were chocolate bars on the counters, the tables. We carried out boxes and boxes of chocolate.”

Fittingly, the new echidna was named Kryoryctes cadburyi.

This obviously has nothing to do with Star Trek, but it does have to do with fashion and it’s really important.

I’ll start this off by saying: this is a good episode. Just a good, solid episode of television with fine performances by our regulars and guest star Terry O’Quinn (who most of you probably think of as Locke from Lost but I think of as Moira Kelly’s dad from The Cutting Edge). That said, THERE AIN’T NO CLOTHES IN THIS THING. So this’ll be a shortie.

However, this is the episode that opens with everyone’s favorite holiday, CAPTAIN PICARD DAY!

That looks NOTHING like me, NOTHING

Picard is understandably a bit embarrassed about the outpouring of love from the ship’s children:

Aw jeez you guys aw jeez

Picard’s bashfulness is endlessly entertaining to Riker, though:

"I’m Jean-Luuuuuc, I’m the caaaaaaaptain, la la la"

Of course, in the middle of the judging of the kids’ crafts, some admiral calls for Picard:

It’s called the Prince Valiant and it’s a VERY popular hairstyle 

The admirals’ uniforms at this point aren’t TOO exciting. Contrast the above with this one from Season 2 or this one from Season 5. “Hey, you know what would be great? Just some gold piping down the front?” “And what else?” THAT’S IT.” “But I’m an admir—” “I SAID THAT’S IT.” Sad.

Anyway, this admiral is like “you gotta go pick up Terry O’Quinn now” and Picard is like:

LOL please ignore my embarrassing banner

So they go pick up Terry O’Quinn, who is also an admiral:

We always hang in a transporter stance 

I mean, this is one too many strikingly handsome, gravitas-laden bald men on a single starship, if you ask me. As soon as he got on board, you knew he and Picard were gonna have WORDS:

We got a bald-off, y’all

I like his pips. The cuff detail is also nice:

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh / Oh, oh, oh, oh / Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh / The right cuff 

The reason Terry is here is to help the Enterprise look for the titular Pegasus, Terry’s old ship on which Riker served. Terry and Riker have a PAST and it is RICH with SECRETS. They kick it to the missing ship and who is there but:

Reliable Romulans

This is a fine example of Romulan wear. Not much else to see here. 

Basically, there’s something on the Pegasus that both the Federation and the Romulans want. Terry O’Quinn knows what’s going on. Riker knows more than he’s letting on. I’d recommend watching the episode, but I’ll tell you the SEEEECRET later on this post if you want to know.

We don’t get much else for clothes, but we do get to see Rikes in his exercise clothes after a bat’leth incident. 

I’m injured! AND SEXY

Your diagnosis is: perfectly furred chest

The dramatic reason for this scene is for Riker to say “I knew what I was supposed to do and didn’t do it.” THIS PARALLELS SOMETHING IN HIS PAST I THINK. But the real reason for this scene is for Rikes to walk around with an open bathrobe. Bev knows:

My god, that bathrobe is marvelous

That’s it for fashions, but we do get to see Picard with an iPad, eating sushi:

I was playing Candy Crush

And also this ensign, who’s working a much nicer version of the Prince Valiant we saw earlier:

I make it look gooooooood

Eventually, the SECRET OF THE PEGASUS is revealed, which is a cloaking device that Terry O’Quinn was working on. This is a violation of a treaty, and Riker kept quiet about it (THE PARALLEL MISTAKE, SEE???). The episode ends with Picard arresting Terry O’Quinn and Riker turning himself in, with a nice little scene of JLP and Rikes in the brig:

We cool

Captain Picard day is June 16th! How will you celebrate?

Ricardo Montalbán with a doll with the face of his Fantasy Island co-star Hervé Villechaize, on the set of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Joe Medjuck, Rick Moranis and Annie Potts on the set of Ghostbusters.

A composite image of the seafront of Weymouth, England — in June of 1944 (left) and 70 years later, on April 5, 2014. In 1944, US troops on the Esplanade were on their way to embark on ships bound for Omaha Beach for the D-Day landings in Normandy. The Allied invasion to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II took place on June 6, 1944.

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Piezodorus litoratus: The Gorse Shield Beetle

You're welcome.

Steak on Coals : ALTON BROWN
Software:
2 pounds inside skirt steak, cut into three equal pieces

1 teaspoon kosher salt

Procedure:
1. Remove the steak from the fridge and lay over a cooling rack set in a half sheet pan and season the steak liberally.

2. Fire up one chimney starter of natural lump charcoal. Once white and ashy, distribute evenly in the lower level of your charcoal grill.

4. Using a blow dryer, blow the charcoal clean of ash. Immediately lay steaks directly onto the hot coals for 35 to 40 seconds, then flip and repeat. When finished cooking, place the meat onto heavy duty aluminum foil, wrap, and rest for 15 minutes.

6. Remove the meat from the foil, reserving foil and juices. Slice thinly across the grain of the meat. Return to meat and toss with the juice. Serve immediately.

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Himalayan Blue Poppi Beautiful gorgeous pretty flowers

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Nazca “kickass” Barsavi.

For the one with a taste for killer soles, and common sense.

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My dad said that Supernatural was unrealistic because Sam and Dean (mostly Dean) have the demeanor and personalities of people who curse a lot. This is why we need a movie. Or more episodes like this. 

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Behold, the Creature of Chislehurst Pond.

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “silly Limies – that there’s a turtle. And not a very impressive specimen.” And you’d be right. But, believe it or not, there are no turtles in Britain.

No, really. They have tortoises — land shellbacks. We recently met a specimen who had been handed down as a family pet for over a generation. But they don’t have any water shellbacks. There are some on the Continent, in the more southerly climes (where they are usually called terrapins), but here they seem wild and exotic.

Huh.