Obviously it's a dog, with the flesh and front teeth missing from the upper jaw. It's hard to believe that people can make such a big fuss over something so ordinary.

So he took real antiques, and turned them into gaudy fake antiques.

Sorry, I don't get it.

Too many tentacles
for one octopus
to be writhing

You're gonna writhe
writhe, writhe, writhe
ninety-six tentacles

Cool - I'd heard of Louis's tape collection, but not the collages.

Two of Louis's other favorite things were cannabis and ice cream.

The Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions he recorded in the mid 20's are some of the greatest jazz recordings ever, and certainly the best from that period. He was way ahead of everybody. It's a shame that most people only know of him from his second career as a popular singer in the 50's and 60's.

Senator Burchett is from my town, and he's a real piece of work, lemme tell you. Among his other exploits:

- He once held a loaded gun on some unarmed teenagers who tried to break into the warehouse where he stores his motorcycle collection. He said later that he "wouldn't have shot anyone."

- Soon after the start of the Iraq war, he gave a speech in which he said that everyone who criticized the President for starting the war should be deported.

Edwin Land (inventor of the Polaroid camera) investigated this effect during his research into color vision. See "The Retinex Theory of Color Vision," Scientific American, Dec. 1977. Land's theory was that the brain uses cues from surroundings to maintain color constancy of objects.