more composites, pie v/s cake, wildling and competency links, Radhastami, Half-drag, ass-over-teakettle

As a follow-up to the last post concerning facial composites, Holly linked this article about how a composite US male compares (rather literally) to a Japanese, French, and Dutch male composite.

i rather enjoyed this old-school-style debate featuring two Southern women defending either pie or cake as the official dessert of the (US) South. There are a few rather telling truths to the article, including " For Southern women, the better the cake, the higher the social status."   and " As we all know, in the South, there is perhaps no currency more vaunted and valuable than having a recipe with an ingredient that no one else can figure out. ".


Linked via my lovely roommate, this rather astonishing graphic tribute to HBO's version of Game Of Thrones entitled Where Have All The Wildings Gone. It's surprisingly not as spoiler-y as might be anticipated. The roommate also posted a fb link to the wikipedia page of something called the Dunning-Kruger effect, which states that " unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average ".

Rup reports that the largest festival in Kolkata, India, in celebration of Radhastami, or the anniversary of the first appearance of Srimati Radharani, who is, among many other things, regarded by devotees as 'the feminine aspect of the Absolute Truth' . i tripped over a link today which elaborated a little more regarding her 25 primary attributes.

i've seen some of these before, but PetaPixel did an overview/interview of Leland Bobbe's impeccable, fascinating portraits of Drag Queens with only half of their faces made up, entitled Half-Drag.

In the pool today, the phrase 'ass-over-teakettle' was mentioned. It means end-over-end. Urban dictionary reports that it's said " frequently by weird Canadian mother-in-laws. ". Apparently, "the common "teakettle" variation is first found in a 1946 book about fighter pilots in WWII, in a euphemized form: "He displayed a rump-over-tea-kettle aggressiveness in seeking dog-fights." " as found in this highly informative definition.