I’ve been laughing – out loud – for the last couple days over the gagsta rap found over at MC Hawking’s Crib. Hawking’s Old Skool astrophysics writings were a major reason why I went into the field myself. I just have a BS degree in Astrophysics, but Hawking’s got all of them. Several times over, I’d imagine. He’s written books. He starred in a movie. Now, he’s doing gangsta rap. There’s three MP3s there, so you can check him out yourself. WARNING: It is gagsta rap, after all, so expect a ton of cussin’ and offensive lyrics.

Ah yeah, here we go again! Dn! This is some funky st that I be laying down on your a**. This one goes out to all my homey’s working in the field of evolutionary science. Check it!

Space Ghost and company get interviewed at Amazon.com.

When in Boston, watch the Kaiju Big Battel. The rumble I’d most like to see? Club Sandwich vs. Kung Fu Chicken Soup.

At some point when I wasn’t looking, it seems Bovine Inversus has started to be written by my college buddy Phil de Cat with Grape Jelly.

I got my first paycheck from my super-secret second job yesterday. I can’t give the specifics, because I’ll get fired, but it involves only eating food. I get paid to eat. It’s a dream job, except my pay is $30 a month, maximum. Maybe it’s something I can build on. The beginnings of a multi-national getting-paid-to-eat gravy train. Mmmmm….. gravy…..

My kitty has to wear a cone on her head. I feel mighty guilty for finding her pitiful and funny at the same time. I was gone the last two days, and missed her first day with the cone on. Last night, she cuddled next to my head all night, getting as close as the plastic would allow. She’s going through a lot just to keep her from having babies. When are they going to come out with kitty Norplant?

The American Museum of Natural History currently has an exhibit of Mongolia’s “Fighting Dinosaurs”. The website has a photo of a cute Velociraptor with a full head of feathers.

Kids in the Hall of Biodiversity -- unfortunately, there’s no funny guys in drag here.

I saw talk today of a planned walkout on the Big Brother TV show (I’ve never watched it.). The walkout’s off, I understand. In England, a new reality show has just begun where the contestants are trying to break out of prison. First one out wins £100,000 in cash.

It has been suggested that a comet or meteor strike may have ushered in the Dark Ages, the period in human history from 500AD to roughly 1000AD where progress around the world came to a halt or (in the case of Europe) moved backward. Data from tree rings lend support to this theory.