Doing research on Morocco for work and stumbled upon this gem. The goats of the Sous Valley, these goats naturally climb Argan trees in order to forage on the higher limbs. Google it, I’m not making this shit up.
Note to self – must see goat in tree before I die.
More photos after the jump. Continue reading
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I knew when I first entered the word llama into google image search it was going to take me somewhere wonderful, but I never anticipated this:
Llama vs. Octopus: The ultimate battle
Llama del Rey, the Nancy Sinatra of the camelid world
Llama Corey Hart wears his sunglasses at night
Then check out this blog with a whole section dedicated to llama awesomeness.
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Expecto Patronum then chocolate. Problem solved.
I’ve recently stumbled upon a correlation that is VERY important.
In life, when things go bad and you feel like your soul has been sucked right out of you, you have some chocolate and it makes you feel better.
In Harry Potter after the Dementors come by and do their whole soul-sucking thing, you have some chocolate and it makes you feel better.
HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS BEFORE?!?!
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Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift....
These conversations have actually happened. I couldn’t make this shit up even if I wanted to.
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No better way to cap off the night than to find out that there’s a new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer. I can’t even begin to describe my excitement, it’s borderline (read: full on) 12 year old at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. And here I was thinking I’d never have the opportunity to say anything positive when mentioning Justin Bieber. I stand corrected.
Click HERE to watch the new trailer.
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Toothpaste CANNOT be 3D.
Listen up Crest marketing team, just because things in 3D are cool right now, doesn’t mean everything in 3D is cool. WTF is 3D white?
"whoa it's like that toothpaste is right next to me"
You know how when you (me) were little you would spend hours on MS Paint painstakingly drawing things, or editing images, (this was before the days of photoshop) wishing that there was some magical program that would just take what you imagine and make it real, well it appears that we are almost at that stage. “A research team from several universities has put together a system whereby you can draw a terrible stick picture sketch, label your blobby objects what they’re supposed to be, and it will essentially photoshop something together for you that meets your criteria.”
Read more about it here.
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Scene 1, Act I.
Location: Work
I sit at my assigned desk for the day, minding my own business (reading texts from last night-no idea what I’m talking about? click here) in a quad with three highly toxic, 40 (possibly 50) something women (who have nothing better to do with their lives than obsessively gossip about one another while pretending to be eachothers bffs) when a friend comes by my desk to ask me if I want to go for break.
Friend: Wanna go for break?
Me: Sure man, let’s go.
Toxic 40something woman (one who never actually comes to work but insists that she’s always there and always tired from all the work she’s been doing—also incredibly anal about the ergonomics of her chair): Oh, what’s that scar?
note: Friend has big scar on left leg because she was run over by a car. Not joking.
Friend: Who me?
Toxic 40something woman: Yeah. How did that happen?
Friend (in the most deadpan demeanor ever): Oh, it was a shark attack.
My favourite day of the month is always “new magazine day”. This is the day that my Vanity Fair (or ELLE) arrives in the mail. This past Thursday was new magazine day, and after quickly leafing through the pages of this month’s Vanity Fair, I settled in for the slower actually-reading-the-stories-that-interest-me leaf-through. This is when I stumbled upon a short feature on Reif Larsen. Larsen is a first time writer whose manuscript was so in demand ten (that’s right!) publishing houses were bidding for it. Penguin ended up buying it, and the manuscript of the book titled The Selected Works of T.S Spivet sold for just under $1 million. Another testament to the fact that the publishing industry is not dead. The book is to be released May 5th, for a little more on the bidding war click here.
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Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, one of my favourite children’s books, is being made into a movie.
Check out this star studded sure to be a hit lineup:
Director: Spike Jonze
Featuring: Catherin Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, and Forest Whitaker
And if that doesn’t have you excited, check out the movie poster:
Are you as excited as I am?
Do you have a favourite children’s book you’d like to see made into a movie?
UPDATE: There’s a trailer now! Click here to watch it!
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