Leatherclad Warrior

[shanmonster]

Too busy making armour to chat much, but last night I ended up DJing the retro night at the Renn for about an hour. It was a bit tricky with it being an unfamiliar music collection and with me having my contacts in (meaning I couldn't really read the names of the tracks too well), but I didn't do too bad, all things considered. I played Divinyls, U2, Gino Vanelli, the Ramones, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, etc. Certainly not my typical sort of set list, now, is it?

Before I get back to leather work, here are the links which've been clogging my internet tubes.

Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral: "Justo Gallego Martínez is building his very own Cathedral in Mejorada del Campo near Madrid, Spain."

Motorway fowl-up: Why 3000 chickens crossed the road: "Thousands of runaway chickens brought traffic to a standstill after a transporter lorry crashed on a busy road near Glasgow." Has the best picture of a cop chasing a chicken I have ever seen (thanks, f00dave).

Doctors Find Grass Growing in Babies Lung: So that's how the Chinese do their grow-ops. Clever.

Misc. Pics of the Day: Some good stuff, here.

SteamPunk Gearrings: Very cute. Now, why didn't I think of that?

Searching for God in the Brain: "Researchers are unearthing the roots of religious feeling in the neural commotion that accompanies the spiritual epiphanies of nuns, Buddhists and other people of faith."

Geeks in the Woods: I'll be doing something much like this in a couple of weeks. I hope I don't run into a beholder (thanks, schwartzung)!

7 (More!) Underground Wonders of the World: Lost Caverns and Buried Cities: Makes me want to take up urban spelunking.

Mail Harmless Bacteria, Go to Jail: The War on Terror takes on the scientists (thanks, tdj).

Diet Water: Just no (thanks, gha5t).

Comments

[monkehtree.livejournal.com]

Gino Vanelli? That is too good.

[lizreay.livejournal.com]

RE: Don Justo

That's how my 4th cousin Frere Andre Bissett got on the track to canonization... he was responsible for the building of L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal in Montreal. :) (I figure he's up there doing the "I don't even KNOW these guys" dance while looking at my family. ;) )

http://www.saint-joseph.org/en_1007_index.asp

I haven't been Catholic since I was 7, but he is one of the most interesting bits on my family tree.

[lizreay.livejournal.com]

Er, credited with the building of the Oratory. Sorry bout that. At any rate, Don Justo sounds like a helluva guy.

[belette.livejournal.com]

Total agreement on the chicken-chasing picture. I kind of wish I had been there, although I probably would have had to steal a chicken or two.