Friday Flickr Finds late and on Tuesday

The Wallace Monument in Scotland

























A panorama from that peak that overlooks Hong Kong











Piscina Mirabilis. A giant cistern that stored the drinking water for the Roman city of Misenum in southern Italy on the western shore of the Bay of Naples. This structure played a big role in the book Pompeii by Robert Harris.






















The sun setting into a partially frozen Lake Michigan






















A girl with magic hands

The Lazy Blogger Returneth

Australian singer/songwriter, Paul Kelly, came out with an album last year called Stolen Apples. My favorite song on the album is called The Ballad of Queenie and Rover.

Jay Garrigan puts songs on internets. I embed

I used to see this guy play out a lot. It's been a year or two since I've seen him play. I really like his music. I'm lame and should go out more. Check out his new tunes. I think a lot of you that visit here will like these. I think AJP will especially like these.

Rock Band makes you act stoopid

Rock Band makes you act stoopid
Originally uploaded by zzazazz

I don't know why I am sharing this picture with the world. It does show how much fun our Rock Band party was last night.

Help with the bags

It's been a while since I've watched this movie. The outtakes from this scene are the best. You can see in this take that they are barely getting through it without losing it.

TV Station mistakenly reports that Jeff Goldblum has died

You can view the hilarity here. At least Goldblum knows that when he does die that this particular anchor will call him a nice guy. What more could you ask for when you kick off?

It's gonna get crazy

While sitting in the teen writers meeting tonight one of the kids got a text message from her friend telling her Michael Jackson had just died. Mitchel, our visiting college student, opened his laptop and confirmed Jackson had been admitted to a hospital, that he wasn't breathing, that he was in a coma and then, finally, dead. That made tonight's prompt for the writing exercise pretty easy. We picked a random word for each person and whatever that person wrote had to be about that word and had to mention Michael Jackson. What the kids wrote went from respectful and touching to downright offensive. I was happy with the results.

Jackson is the biggest celebrity to die since Princess Diana. For the next 48 hours you are going to get to watch the people of the United States lose their collective mind. Sit back and enjoy. It's gonna be a freak show.

Google Books

I saw today that Google Books is trying some new things. I guess we can embed public domain books into our blogs. I figured I'd try my favorite passage from Huckelberry Finn. This is the section where Huck decides between eternal salvation or helping his friend.

Rush Plays Rock Band

This is pretty funny. Leave it to Colbert to post something this cool.

A Staggering Work of Genius

It turns out the new Transformers movie that you thought looked retarded may be one of the greatest movies ever made. It could be the end of cinema as you know it. Thanks to Warren Ellis for the link.