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passerby  left a link to an unofficial upload of this video in a comment. I'm treating it as a suggestion and posting the official upload.

I left the following comment on Top 10 Creepiest Fast Food Mascots.

"Seeing the Dairy Queen Lips for the first time makes me wonder if they ever sang 'Science Fiction, Double Feature,' the opening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show."

That sent me down a rabbit hole of double checking the song title. Once I fell all the way down, I discovered (48 years later) that a pair of disembodied lips didn't sing that song onstage, but "The Usherette" did. Here's the best performance video of that I've discovered so far.

Follow-up to the first and second summaries of Nablopomo: Play on Crazy Eddie's Motie News.

• Space and astronomy stories for the week of the annular eclipse
• Two environmental videos from Accuweather
• Sustainability news from campuses on the campaign trail for Mother's Day Weekend 2012
• Warmest spring in metro Detroit history predicted
• A very warm April, 2012, and past 12 months in the U.S. and worldwide
• Sustainability and austerity news from Reuters yesterday
• Student sustainability video festival, part 4: biodiversity
• Sustainability education news from campuses on the campaign trail

One more week to go.

As any of you who have reading my journal for any length of time have probably figured out, I have deeply ambivalent feelings about drum and bugle corps. On the one hand, I loved it dearly and was a great fan of it. On the other hand, it ended up treating me badly, and I had to walk away from it because I realized that it was bad for me. The same could be said about the women I dated who marched in drum corps, particularly the last one, who I was with for 10 years, but that's another story.

In any event, I am still nostalgic for the activity (admiring it from afar isn't as hazardous to my mental health as actually being involved) and regularly follow goldsmith1210's series about the top 50 drum and bugle corps of the past 40 years on YouTube. His most recent video included one of my favorite performances, the 2000 Boston Crusaders, which reminded me that it was in one of my playlists. It also reminded me that I had written one of my favorite reviews of that performance as well.

With that, I present Boston Crusaders' 2000 show "The Color Red" along with my reviews.



( An amalgam of two reviews behind the cut. )

Yet another night the post wrote itself.




UCLA squeaks by MSU 78-76. My undergraduate alma mater defeats my favorite grad school alma mater's cross-state rival to stay alive in the NCAA tournament. This is a good day for me during March Madness.

Still more from yesterday's Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday, the body of which concluded with a series of articles on video games from Michigan State University and Indiana University.

( Michigan State as a video game design center, Guitar Hero as a way to teach kids to create art, and another installment of 'While the World Burns, Farmville thrives' behind the cut. )

Speaking of the connection between video games and the world burning, the servers for Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, and Metal Gear Online are shut down because of the earthquake and tsunami near Sendai.

As part of the efforts to conserve Japan's electricity usage in the wake of the Sendai earthquake and tsunami, Square Enix and Konami are temporarily shutting down servers for Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, PlayOnline, and Metal Gear Online.

Final Fantasy XI and FFXIV's servers were shut down at 3 p.m. PST on March 13 and are scheduled to be down for a week. In addition, players won't be billed for the April billing cycle. The FFXIV Lodestone site, official game forums, and Square Enix support center will provide updates when available.

Metal Gear Online servers have been down since March 12. Kojima Productions is unsure about when they'll be brought back online.

Those games aren't thriving while the world burns!