Speed Bumps on the Infobahn

Always worth hearing again:

You're the Queen of the slipstream
With eyes that shine
You have crossed many waters to be here
You have drank of the fountain of innocence
And experienced the long cold wintry years.

There's a dream where the contents are visible
Where the poetic champions compose
Will you breathe not a word of this secrecy, and
Will you still be my special rose?
-- Queen Of The Slipstream (Van Morrison)

More on Van Morrison HERE.

Driving Miss Bessie @ the House of Eratosthenes "I bought "Bessie" and drove her off the lot way back when she had 6.3 miles on the clock, and the maps were different. The Berlin Wall would fall in another four months." 341,000 miles later it was time for "Farewell, my good and faithful servant."

Everybody's heard about the bird, but far fewer have head about the originators of "The Bird," The Rivingtons. If you haven't, you should and now you can. At Yesterdays Gold "The Rivingtons - The Liberty Years" is available for download. The whole album. Snag it now.

Perverts on Parade. Rio's annual carnival has long been one of the Earth's open sewer festivals, but this year they've made their degeneration explicit -- Holocaust-themed Rio Carnival float causes strain -- Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - "A Carnival float with a pile of model dead bodies commemorating the Holocaust is causing unease before the lavish parades in Rio de Janeiro this weekend. The Viradouro samba organization, or school, plans to feature the grim display when it marches in the Sambadrome parade strip on Sunday, despite objections from a local Jewish group."

You've just got to love the classic Reuters' touch, "causes strain." [HT: Ron Coleman ]

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