This Artificial Heart Began Beating on It's Own.

I was watching this PBS program and had to take a picture of the screen.

This Heart was grown in a laboratory, and when fed oxygen and stuff, it began beating!  All by itself!  Tell me that isn't stunning.

This Week's Caption Came Quickly

When I first glanced at the illustration for this week's Caption Contest it seemed completely open ended.  A doctor talks to a dog.  He could just about be saying anything.  Then I looked a little harder, and I have to say that no other caption than the one I came up with, would now seem appropriate.  Look at the seem in the dog's neck.  It's a costume.  And then, sure enough, there are fleas scattered around. The obvious caption is as follows...

Okay, it's my blog so I'm going to indulge in pointing out what makes this caption work.
I think it's because it opens the door to so many other unanswered questions.  Such as...

Does the man inside have fleas, or it it just the dog-costume that does?
And if it's just the dog-costume that has the fleas, then why are the fleas attracted to it?
Is the dog-costume made from the hide of an actual dog?
And if not, could fleas be fooled into making a habitat of the costume's fabric?
But the over-riding question of course is,
Why doesn't he just take the dog-costume off and be done with the fleas?

Perhaps a more profound and disturbing question is,
Why is he wearing the dog-costume in the first place??
Is this man employed to wear this degrading costume?
Could catching fleas be a part of a Worker's Compensation claim?

You see what I mean?  The questions just keep rolling on out.
I had myself a good giggle. But my final question is,
What is it with that doctor's nose?

More Garden Pictures

Here's a few more recent garden photos.

You might notice my Wisteria in the foreground, and how dead it looks.  I think it might have been the poison I was using on all the Bindweed.

This Sea Holly was doing really good until (I think) my dog...

...pissed on it.

Glad I Got One This Week (Caption Contest)

It's fair to say that I'm a little bent out of shape over some of the lousy captions that keep winning against what I feel is often a far superior submission on my part. Consider the winning caption announced this week.

I mean, what the f**k!

 I definitely stand by my submission as far superior to any of those. Remember, it was...

"...and I do yoga, and I write, and I do volunteer work for the blind, and I..."

Enough said!

Anyway, I got kind of discouraged and skipped a few weeks.  (There was one that I had no clue what to do with.) So when this week came out, and I saw the illustration, I knew it was ripe and ready to be written, and yet I couldn't come up with anything.  Finally tonight, I threw myself at it pretty hard, and I'm glad I did.  I think I came up with a pretty good one.  Whadda ya think?

I've Been Studying To Be A Sound Engineer

This is the board I'm most interested in learning.

 I'm studying on a smaller one at school.

The Magnificent but Overlooked Mini-Series, Tin Man

I just finished the Tin Man mini-series on Netflix, and it was incredible.  Best thing I've seen in some time.  I was surprised it didn't cause more of a stir back in 2007.  I hadn't really heard of it before, but what a treat!    It's a reworking of Frank L. Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," but with more of an adult, darker and more dramatic feel to it.  It certainly had the production value of a blockbuster, but it seems to have receded back into history far more quickly than it deserves.

So here's your chance. It's on Netflix, but is expiring in a week or so. It's in three movie-length parts, so you'll need to get started on it right away.  You won't regret it.  Just wait til you see the flying monkeys.

 Update: Sometimes they same they're expiring and then they don't. It's still there on Netflix,, and I'm sure it's still as good.

Another New Yorker Caption Contest

I don't know why, but I haven't been keeping up with the Caption Contest lately. I made a point of getting one in this week. Here it is.

Finally Started Working On My Wall

Here are a few more recent photos.