Two mammals that lay eggs: the Platypus and the Echidna
The duckbilled platypus is found only in Tasmania and eastern Australia. European scientists who first studied platypus specimens thought a clever taxidermist had stitched together parts of different animals. The “patchwork” appearance of the platypus is seen only by those who believe each animal must be very similar to other animals. In fact, the platypus is perfectly designed for its environment.
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences13.html
Beware that the above link leads to a creationist website. From the same website, here's an ilustration of "Saturn, DNA, and Description of Ark.":
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/webpictures/introduction.jpg
The Colossal Squids
Did these creatures fire people's imagination across the ages?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2910849.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0423_030423_seamonsters.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6357005.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2910849.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0423_030423_seamonsters.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6357005.stm
Xkeban had a good heart
A legend of Xtabay (the female demon) tells us about two women who lived in a village in the Yucatán Peninsula. One was named Xtabay, but people called her Xkeban (which means prostitute, bad woman or who practices illicit love), the other was Utz-Colel (a good, decent woman).
People said Xkeban was sick with lust and gave her favors to every man who asked her. Utz-Colel was virtuous and honest.
Xkeban had a good heart and kindly helped the poor, sick and homeless, and also the animals abandoned for being considered useless, by giving up the jewellery and fine clothes she got from her lovers. She wasn't a haughty woman, neither did she say bad things about people. Xtabay humbly received the insults and humiliations from the people of her village.
On the other hand, Utz-Colel was cold, full of pride, harsh of heart and easily disgusted by the poor.
One day, Xtabay was not seen anymore. Days passed and a fine delicate perfume was smelt all over the village. People found it came from Xtabay's house, who had died there, alone.
Utz-Colel said it wasn't possible, that perfume couldn't be that of such a vile and corrupt body, nothing but decay and stench could come out of her. She argued that had to be bad spirits demon still trying to tempt men. If that is the odour of a dead prostitute, mine shall be incredible when I die, said she.
A few people buried Xtabay, feeling pity for her. The next day, her grave was covered with beautiful flowers of a delicate perfume.
When Utz-Colel died, the entire village attended her funeral, they remembered her virtue and honesty. To the amazement of the crowd, an intolerable stench came out from her grave.
The flowers growing on Xtabay's grave were named Xtabentún.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtabay
People said Xkeban was sick with lust and gave her favors to every man who asked her. Utz-Colel was virtuous and honest.
Xkeban had a good heart and kindly helped the poor, sick and homeless, and also the animals abandoned for being considered useless, by giving up the jewellery and fine clothes she got from her lovers. She wasn't a haughty woman, neither did she say bad things about people. Xtabay humbly received the insults and humiliations from the people of her village.
On the other hand, Utz-Colel was cold, full of pride, harsh of heart and easily disgusted by the poor.
One day, Xtabay was not seen anymore. Days passed and a fine delicate perfume was smelt all over the village. People found it came from Xtabay's house, who had died there, alone.
Utz-Colel said it wasn't possible, that perfume couldn't be that of such a vile and corrupt body, nothing but decay and stench could come out of her. She argued that had to be bad spirits demon still trying to tempt men. If that is the odour of a dead prostitute, mine shall be incredible when I die, said she.
A few people buried Xtabay, feeling pity for her. The next day, her grave was covered with beautiful flowers of a delicate perfume.
When Utz-Colel died, the entire village attended her funeral, they remembered her virtue and honesty. To the amazement of the crowd, an intolerable stench came out from her grave.
The flowers growing on Xtabay's grave were named Xtabentún.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtabay
Lee Perry - I am the Upsetter
A correspondent found him recording an album for Joe Gibbs in late 1981: "At the studio Lee had any number of small children who fiddled with instruments, the board, and headphones with alarming proficiency while the session went on. Occasionally Lee would space out and his wife would take over, doing much of the actual work. While singing, Scratch had laid out before him and around him the following items: Sagittarius horoscope, a small gold-painted statue of a lion, a set of hand exercise grips, a book on Buddhist yoga, a note pad full of lyrics, several Lee Perry records with weird phrases scrawled on the covers, a hammer, a pink plastic airplane, a grater, a book on space oddities and a couple of other objects that were beyond identification. He had a gym bag in the corner full of other personal talismans which I did not investigate. (...) -- Interview here
Video here.
Video here.
There is a unicorn in the garden
In UPA's garden, that is...
The cartoons done by this company were among the most cherished by Surrealist film critics Ado Kyrou and Robert Benayoun. The two rejected the realist approach and anthropomorphisms of Disney’s films. Kyrou thought that: "Disney and his studios, after their promising beginning quickly foundered, became facile and remainded mired in bourgeois sentiment. Disney has been called the ’La Fontaine of the cinema’ and he surely deserves this ignominious title." (Le Surréalisme au cinéma)
http://ombresblanches.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/storm-over-disneyland/
See videos: Unicorn in the Garden, Gerald McBoing-Boing, and Tell Tale Heart.
The cartoons done by this company were among the most cherished by Surrealist film critics Ado Kyrou and Robert Benayoun. The two rejected the realist approach and anthropomorphisms of Disney’s films. Kyrou thought that: "Disney and his studios, after their promising beginning quickly foundered, became facile and remainded mired in bourgeois sentiment. Disney has been called the ’La Fontaine of the cinema’ and he surely deserves this ignominious title." (Le Surréalisme au cinéma)
http://ombresblanches.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/storm-over-disneyland/
See videos: Unicorn in the Garden, Gerald McBoing-Boing, and Tell Tale Heart.
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