Ink Lake

This Is What A Lesbian Looks Like

 

Sally Ride

Physicist; first American woman in space; author of seven science books for children; member of the space shuttle Challenger crew; member of the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology; director of the California Science Institute; inductee into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, the California Hall of Fame, the Aviation Hall of Fame, and the Astronaut Hall of Fame; recipient of the Jefferson Award for Public Service, the von Braun Award, the Lindbergh Eagle, the NCAA’s Theodore Roosevelt Award, and the NASA Space Flight Medal (twice).

You hear me talking, hillbilly-girl Florida Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll? 

H/T: Michael Signorile

Mayberry, 11215

Last night, at Park Slope’s Rock Shop, Lianne Smith and Amy Allison performed a song originally performed on The Andy Griffith Show.

 

 

Below’s the source, performed by the Darlings, a “fictional family of musically-inclined hillbillies”, that made regular appearances on the show.

In reality, the musicians were the Dillards, a bluegrass group that had a tremendous influence on bands like the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers.

Chock Full Of Flavor

I don’t think I'd be able to get through a take without laughing. The great, irreplaceable, Phil Hartman.

Happy Birthday, Evie Sands!

Hat-tips to Duglas and Davie.

Gustin Reichbach, R.I.P.

I just wanted to note with sadness the passing of Judge Gustin Reichbach. The lifelong Brooklyn resident, passed away last weekend of pancreatic cancer, at the age of 65.

The Times has an obituary. It notes,

Across six decades of myriad public incarnations, Justice Reichbach occupied buildings at Columbia as a student, won a court case that helped legalize residential loft life in SoHo and TriBeCa, blasted a state agency from the bench for ignoring Medicaid fraud and served as a judge on a war-crimes tribunal in Kosovo.

Elected to the New York State Supreme Court in 1999, he decorated his courtroom with pictures of Paul Robeson, Clarence Darrow and striking coal miners, as well as a neon sign showing the scales of justice.

Last year, the Reichbachs’ daughter, Hope, died at the age of 22.

Gertrude Stein said,

“There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.”

To The Moon

On this date in 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins blasted-off aboard Apollo 11 to the Moon.

 

Here is some amazing high-speed film of the launch. Each of the five F-1 engines of the first stage, generated 1.5 million pounds-of-force; more thrust than the 3 Space Shuttle Main Engines combined. It is still, the most powerful liquid-fueled rocket engine ever used.

That Thing You Do

Fool’s Paradise

A Dog For The Dog Days Of Summer

Just thought I’d post a video of….the  world’s cutest dog! This is from back in December — when she was just 4 months old.

Anybody else who thought they had the world’s cutest dog. Sorry, hate the game, not the puppy.

Kiddie Brooklyn Versus The Higgs Boson

AKA, what a liberal-arts education buys you these days.

Note the girl at 1:27 who sounds exactly like Shoshanna.

One girl does nail it, and knows about the Large Hadron Collider, too. Cheers. And the source of her erudition?

“I read the news.”

Oh my effing G.

And here’s a video that works at explaining what the Higgs boson is all about.

Blows Against The Empire

After yesterday’s tragi-comic talk with the staff at the Seaport Abercrombie & Fitch,I marshaled some folks to call the store, tweeting, reporting it on  311, etc.

A score. Hopefully a win. My friend Zoë said, “Who’s next?”