Of course, the day wouldn't be complete without two covers of "Stand By Me" -- though I could certainly throw several more your way that are equally entertaining.

This video is quite bizarre and violent and cannibally.

This cover is a bit of a mystery: I discovered it a couple years ago likely via some illegal process and didn't think much about whether it was Jason Mraz singing. Clearly it is not Jason Mraz - I like Jason, but he does not have this quality of a singing voice. It turns out that no one knows who this is, or at least no one on the internet has conclusively pinpointed the singer's identity.

This is unfortunate, because this song very swiftly rose up the ranks of my iTunes and has roosted in the #1 played spot for years now.

Maya Angelou is the Literary Benjamin Button: Begins as an Inaugural Poet, Pulitzer Prize Nominee, and National Book Award Nominee, ends posting facebook updates that seem straight out of my 11 year old cousin's unicorn diary.

First, read this article about a governor's attempt to get her constituents to abstain from eating meat to lower their carbon footprint.

Then check out the PB&J Campaign, a website maintained by citizens concerned about the effect the meat industry has on climate change and the environment.

They claim (and likely rightly so) that every PB&J you eat lowers your carbon footprint because getting nutrients straight from plants means we sidestep the middle-man, or middle-digestor if you will. We need to grow many more plants to feed animals than if we just ate the plants ourselves. This article doesn't even mention the effect cow farts have on our atmosphere.

I am no vegetarian, but I support any group that endorses the gloriousness that is peanut butter.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell Reinstates April (2010) as "Confederate History Month".

I really do not understand how the South can continue to celebrate the Confederacy. South Africa doesn't have "Pre-Apartheid History Month", nor does England have "Imperialism Reflection Week" or Germany "Nazi 'Nowledge November".

I suppose this is would be all right if the Confederacy was about "Southern Pride" and not, you know, ensuring the dominant power of Slave States and ensuring their ability keep enslaving an entire race of people.

Lifestyles of the Rich and Heinous: Take a (Virtual) Tour of Rush Limbaugh's House.

His place does not seem as "phallus-y" as I thought it would.


Also, I love that the article title is "Rush Limbaugh is a closet Francophile"

Fly by W. S. Merwin

I have been cruel to a fat pigeon
Because he would not fly
All he wanted was to live like a friendly old man

He had let himself become a wreck filthy and confiding
Wild for his food beating the cat off the garbage
Ignoring his mate perpetually snotty at the beak
Smelling waddling having to be
Carried up the ladder at night content

Fly I said throwing him into the air
But he would drop and run back expecting to be fed
I said it again and again throwing him up
As he got worse
He let himself be picked up every time
Until I found him in the dovecote dead
Of the needless efforts

So this is what I am
Pondering his eyes that could not
Conceive that I was a creature to run from

I who have always believed too much in words

Click for bigger - it's worth it.

I'm sure you've all heard about the Mississippi Teen Constance McMillen who asked permission to bring her girlfriend to prom. Last I had heard the administration had soiled itself and canceled prom altogether - you know, to protect from the gay and all.

Well, turns out that the administration reconsidered and instead made two proms: one for McMillen, her girlfriend, and seven special needs students, and a second *secret* prom for the remainder of the class.

Note that this is from Gawker and the author may be suitably misinformed.

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