Thursday, January 17, 2013

bike notice, sotol, and Mrs. Robinson

This notice, regarding someone who may have drunkenly stolen a bike in Dublin, is both hilarious and sincere.

i have recently learned that a native Texas plant , to which i have been referring to as yucca my entire life, is actually called sotol. There's also a ton of yucca around, so not all of my namings were incorrect.

The other day in lab, the Simon and Garfunkel song Mrs. Robinson came on the lab radio. i was singing along, badly, and Holly asked if i knew whether the song or the movie The Graduate came first. As tracked back, Simon was asked to write three songs for the movie, but was touring and didn't have time, and so re-worked a song involving Mrs. Roosevelt. The version appearing on the movie and the later radio single are not the same; only part of the chorus survives, and the actual verses never appeared in the movie.

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