7708 – The Buzzin’ of the Bees

Google created a special satellite view of New Orleans using imagery taken on Wednesday, August 31st. Search Google Maps for New Orleans to see it (you can then switch between “Map”, “Satellite”, “Hybrid”, and “Katrina”).


I thought that I got my reprieve at 8pm last night, but lost it again at 9pm, when En’s cable went out. So much for walkabout, or checking out that property in Deerfield after all. I’m guessing I’m in for the long haul for the holiday weekend. I’m not going to let it tick me off… just going to accept the situation and move on.


Weezle was trying to negotiate a trade of baked goods for genetic goods, and made me eep. I got to gab with Lisa-Lisa over google talk, and they got it set up without Naser-Guru’s assistance, which is pretty impressive.


Two versions of the current music. I love ’em both, for different reasons.

On a summer day
In the month of May
A burly bum came hiking
Down a shady lane
Through the sugar cane
He was looking for his liking
As he roamed along
He sang a song
Of the land of milk and honey
Where a bum can stay
For many a day
And he won’t need any money

Chorus:

Oh the buzzin’ of the bees
In the cigarette trees
Near the soda water fountain
At the lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
On the big rock candy mountain

There’s a lake of gin
We can both jump in
And the handouts grow on bushes
In the new-mown hay
We can sleep all day
And the bars all have free lunches
Where the mail train stops
And there ain’t no cops
And the folks are tender-hearted
Where you never change your socks
And you never throw rocks
And your hair is never parted

Oh, a farmer and his son,
They were on the run
To the hay field they were bounding
Said the bum to the son,
“Why don’t you come
To that big rock candy mountain?”
So the very next day
They hiked away,
The mileposts they were counting
But they never arrived
At the lemonade tide
On the big rock candy mountain

One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fires were burning,
Down the track came a hobo hiking,
He said, “Boys, I’m not turning
I’m heading for a land that’s far away
Beside the crystal fountain
I’ll see you all this coming fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain,
It’s a land that’s fair and bright,
The handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night.
The boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
I’m bound to go
Where there ain’t no snow
Where the sleet don’t fall
And the winds don’t blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
You never change your socks
And little streams of alkyhol
Come trickling down the rocks
O the shacks all have to tip their hats
And the railway bulls are blind
There’s a lake of stew
And ginger ale too
And you can paddle
All around it in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
The cops have wooden legs
The bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmer’s trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
I’m bound to go
Where there ain’t no snow
Where the sleet don’t fall
And the winds don’t blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain,
The jails are made of tin.
You can slip right out again,
As soon as they put you in.
There ain’t no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws nor picks,
I’m bound to stay
Where you sleep all day,
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain.


elephant with a false leg

Watch a video of a Thai elephant named Motala, who had its leg blown off by a land mine, trying out its new prosthesis.

· New leg for wounded Thai elephant [BBC]
· Video of Motala and her handlers in action (asx format)


1 year ago – More Frances, Dan Snores, Newt Pics, observations.

2 years ago – neurologist, giant lizard in Beirut, grizzlies, Y-chromosome vanishing, work drama, Cathi’s dad gets’ trach, Egyptology, Ft. Laud ghosts, Scientology

3 years ago – freaky temple, edbook‘s llamas, Bush behaves a bit, bad dream, Friendly street light.

4 years ago – contretemps , liverish, Rhinestone Cowboy, social lubrication, spiritual/paranormal/xenobiological poll (fascinating results), stopping b/w theft, Anne Heche a loony

5 years ago – No Norton, Supers Gaming, interests, met twinstar & estokes

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