for bestiary: the surinam toad, an ugly frog that lays its eggs inside of itself
if you dare click play, eat some saltines® and get a bucket ready because watching the surinam toad give birth to toadlings will most likely cause uncontrollable retching. grosser still is how the eggs form like festering pimples on the lady-toad’s back. ahh… the miracle of life!
here is the vend diagram video that i yakked about yesterday, now embedded forever within the ones and zeros of the ragbag.
news bulletin (for immediate release): my former boy-bandmates, rafi kam and dallas penn, who style themselves the internets celebrities, have just released a new video on the topic of street vending called the vend diagram for which they approached me to concoct some venn diagrams (wordplay!). the above chart is perhaps my favourite as it deals with creole and mixed languages and ends rather absurdly where it all began—with a ginormous slice* of pie.
rafi and dallas’ investigation into how the economy is effing up the most micro of businesses—the street vendors, can be found here. i made the charts for it, but i will not now confirm (nor double confirm) that i made a cameo in it.
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*properly speaking, the shape of this slice is a reuleaux triangle (maths!)
letterman (the younger brother of david letterman) first appeared in animated skits on the electric comapany in 1972. he was voiced by gene wilder (willy wonka) and his adventures were narrated by joan rivers (also willy wonka).
a typical segment shows his arch enemy (an arab stereotype) called spell binder (voiced by zero mostel) using his magic wand (stored beneath his turban) to change a key letter in the word (e.g., “custard” to “mustard”). bedlam ensues—the people who were enjoying flavorful custard suddenly and unknowingly begin eating red-hot mustard, causing them to turn red and burn from the mouth. enter letterman (in his all-too-literal varsity sweater getup) who restores the altered letters much to spell binder’s dismay.
actually, now that i think about it, the true hero of these episodes is not the doofus do-gooder, letterman BUT the witty trickster, spell binder.
