(Click for big. Not as wrong–or as funny–as this, though.)
April 2010
Friday Unrelated Information
1. Have you seen this story of the World Rally Championship in Mexico? You need to read it because it’s awesome:
Bill Caswell, an unemployed Chicago racing freak, entered the Mexico round of the World Rally Championship in a 1991 BMW 318i that he found on Craigslist. The car cost $500…he found a loophole in the FIA rules that let him enter a twenty-year-old car in the same event as guys like Ken Block and former F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen.
He gets mooned! He almost falls off a bridge! He finishes third in his class!
2. Haven’t we all wanted to see Michael Buble being stalked by a velociraptor? Now we can, thanks to bubleraptor.tumblr.com.
A Poem For When It Is NOT Snowing
I am not even going to talk about this snowstorm. Instead, here’s a poem from The Writer’s Almanac this morning about springtime and Easter.
Coltsfoot gives way to dandelion,
plum to apple blossom. Cherry fills
our woods, white petals melting
like the last late snow. Dogwood’s
stigmata shine with the blood
of this season. How holy
forsythia and redbud are
as they consume their own
flowers, green leaves running
down their crowns. Here is
the shapeliness of bodies
newly formed, the rich cloth
that covers frail bones and hides
roots that hold fervently
to this dark earth.
–For Jack Ridl