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Oh meaty, slimy thing
born of spores as fine as dust
reversing the rot
flesh to fungus
fungus to flesh
You smell terrible, dear
in carcass drag as flybait
becoming your prey
flora to offal
offal to flora

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After eight days of this bastard cold, I can say without doubt that there is nothing cute or endearing about it. I’d also like to point out to my immune system that the idea is to attack the invader, not the host body. So little more search-and-destroy and [...]

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I don’t want to pay $50,000 for an electric car. I might pay that much for one of these, however. Makes a nice lawn ornament.
I now return to my regularly scheduled head cold. Ugh.

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Kukeri is a yearly Bulgarian celebration that traces its roots back to ancient Thrace. Dancers wearing goatlike costumes parade around in order to frighten evil spirits away. Like a lot of spring celebrations, it contains elements of death and rebirth, as well as fertility and bacchanalia.
In other [...]

Among other historical events, March 23, 1965 marked the launch of Gemini 3, the first manned flight in the Gemini program. Gus Grissom named the capsule ” The Unsinkable Molly Brown”.

Top of the charts that day was this:

Publication of the spellbinding classic “Studies in Polymerization. XV. The Photosensitized Initiation of Vinyl Polymerization by Manganese Carbonyl” [...]