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100% mommy, my skull! Just returned from a long weekend abroad in balmy Los Angeles. Here are some photos from the Bastard Noise “Grandpa’s 84th Birthday” show at the Boulevard in East LA, in celebration of an octogenarian who’s been supporting the punk scene probably longer than most of us have been [...]  Somehow I got lucky enough to have Invisible Oranges, the best metal blog on our blue-green Earth, reading Phyte Club. The editor decided to send me some very thoughtful questions about the luscious union of plants and heavy metal. Holy shit, I know. Seriously. CHECK IT OUT. Thanks for your support! ….likes plants! [...] The longest day of the year, the first official day of summer — June 21st — is upon us once again. Happy Summer Solstice! The days have been stretching out by second by second for the past six months, blessing the outdoorsy types with more natural light get it, sort of? from a [...] jar of flowers, pint of pale ale Did I really backpack a dozen miles for a beer? This beer? And have the scientists made any progress on coming up with a suitable dehydrated ale yet? I was intending to write a review of Marin Brewing Company‘s San Quentin Breakout Stout. It was going [...] from top, clockwise: flower, bud, fruit So what’s going on here? This is one of those classic examples of bud/flower/fruit. Having the opportunity to show three stages of floral development like this is a huge teaching tool — it really gets the idea across that the flower transforms into a fruit rather than [...] The limitless sub-genres of heavy metal are amusing and mildly ridiculous. I love creative adjectives as much as the next wordy writer, and many of the distinctions are totally valid, but the ceaseless categorization can reek of self-indulgence almost as much as beer-sweaty musicians marinating in the tour van. Melodic death metal, rap metal, [...] A lot of blogs participate in this thing called Wordless Wednesday — a picture being worth thousands of keyboard strokes and the fact that most folks probably only glaze over the words anyhow. I’m not sure if it’s just a plant-blog weekly phenomenon or encompasses the entire blogosphere. Obviously, I remain ignorant because I [...] |
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