"I am done with my graceless heart / so tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart"

[larryhammer]

After a weekend at Phoenix ComiCon, blear. A couple random links instead of the usual scintilating conversation curated links:

How to identify that light in the sky. (via)

24 places to be avoided by acrophobes, many of them with glass floors. Me, I'm grinning like a loon. Figuratively speaking, given loons don't have lips. Grinning, anyway. (via)

The Mitford sisters, ranked. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Shake It Out," Florence + The Machine.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I had to stop looking at those views. I could not convince the backs of my legs I was not about to fall!

[larryhammer]

:-D

[pnh.livejournal.com]

My world is changed by the discovery that Jessica Mitford, in addition to her other notable accomplishments, was also the lead singer of a cowbell and kazoo orchestra. Which (further googling informs me) recorded a cover of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."

[larryhammer]

*blink* *blink*

AWESOME

[pnh.livejournal.com]

Which, it turns out, you can buy on iTunes!

[larryhammer]

!!!

What's the orchestra's name?

[pnh.livejournal.com]

Decca and the Dectones.

I shit you not.

[larryhammer]

YouTube comes through again. Love the album cover.

---L.

[snakypoet]

Loved the article on the Mitfords and am off to re-read The Pursuit of Love now.

That's when I've recovered from those photos. Yes I have height phobia. I did manage to look at them all, and that's quite enough thrill for me, thanks. I would never, never, attempt the real thing.

[larryhammer]

I want to find my omnibus copy of Love in a Cold Climate + The Pursuit of Love for a reread -- I meant to last night, but got caught up in Stuff.

---L.

[snakypoet]

As you do. Yes, mine is that omnibus also. :)