When it comes down to it, I just want to be distracted

Aside from the fact that I'm starting to belive that the tradtional "blog" is dead (thanks Twitter), I've just been so busy with so many things that when I have free time to do anything, writing here has been my last priority (and to the 3 of you who may read this, I apologize). What I can do, is provide meaningful, humorous, intriguing distractions. So let's just do that, shall we?

• Amazing Horse. Just listen. Watch. You'll never be able to listen to anything else for about 15 days. Sersiouly. You will wake up with this song stuck in your head, your brain will throw a clot, and you'll die of an anuerism. "Sweet lemonade; mmmm sweet lemonade".
• The lost art of the family tree is revived with these spectacular graphic prints at My Tree and Me. Seriously thinking about picking one of these up.
• I'm a tremendous fan of the work of Cormac McCarthy. He's an elusive man, but the Wall Street Journal has managed to capture a brilliant conversation with the man on his work, films, faith and aging. All I can say, is that he's a man (in the best sense of the word):

"Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."

• This is the most amazing beard in the world (and sadly, most decidedly fake)
• Invisible World is just that - photos where things are taken out (some better than others).
• Depression Cooking with Clara
• If you've ever wondered what it was like to live in a hamster cage, well, wonder now more. France to the resuce with a hotel, Hamster Villa, designed to make you feel like your in a hamster cage.
• This probably interests me, but the inventor of Nacho's, was named Ignacio Nacho Anaya - which inspried Nacho Libre (Igancio is Jack Black's character name; and nickname of Nacho).
• Save Your Cats from Themselves -- "Restrain you cat with a hug, speak to it soothingly. Lift your cat's tail and gently insert the thermometer" (is she kissing a dead cat?)
• I'm slightly interested and also bored with the use of the "tilt-shift" technique (which essentially blurs specific parts of an image to make them look like minatures). Real tilt-shift merely applies blur by tilting and/or shifting the lens, and can give the illusion of smallness, but not selective focus. Regardless, here are what is considered the best examples of the technique.