This Friday’s interlude is a bit different only because I can say that I’ve also sung what you are about to watch. The Scene of the Drunken poet is not only comedic, but musically interesting as well. Listen in the chorus parts while the sopranos, alto’s, tenor’s and basses play with the melody line in […]
Author: The Arbourist
Dead Wild Roses: Ricky Perry Eroding the American Constitution One Prayer Rally at a Time
Watching stupid people do and say stupid things in Texas. Admittedly, low hanging fruit, but great fodder for low blogging weeks.
Filed under: Religion Tagged: How Religion Poisons Everything, Religion, Stupid, Texas
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cosmological Missing Mass – Introduction to Dark Matter Question
Returning from vacation is always a pain, as routines need to be reestablished and new ones laid down. The time I usually spend blogging was not available as I was doing the 12 hour drive from Kaslo back to Edmonton. So, now we are catching up slowly with a few word-light/video-heavy posts. The PI institute […]
Dead Wild Roses: Fun Sun Science
No surprises here, just a nice video of the birth and eventual death of our star. Filed under: Science Tagged: Astronomy, Science, Solar Evolution
Dead Wild Roses: The Monday Morning Misogyny – Marilyn Monroe
Of all the women and all the poses that are available *this* one gets the attention. Of course it is rape culture double thumbs up approved so its all good. *sigh* Still so much work to do… Filed under: Feminism Tagged: All hail the sex-class, Did not consent, Feminism, Rape Culture, Statue Fail
Dead Wild Roses: The Arbourist’s Kaslo Summer Vacation – The Pictures
Summer vacation is never complete without a trip to Kaslo British Columbia. Packing up the fiance and parental unit we embarked on the 12 hour car trip(Oh, and a stop off at Radium Hotsprings as well) to the funky/quaint town known as Kaslo. It is a week of intensive learning, singing and general revelry. This […]
Dead Wild Roses: Science – It works B*tches – Why, rationally, you must accept Evolution
It is nice knowing that you are fairly right about something. Evolution happens to be one of those topics in that category. The funny/sad part is running across people who still “don’t get it” and either are deluded or have let their misplaced skepticism get the better of them. I try unsuccessfully to hide my […]
Dead Wild Roses: Friday Classical Music Interlude Beethoven, Große Fuge, op. 133, string quartet
The Große Fuge (or Grosse Fuge, also known in English as Grand Fugue), Op. 133, is a single-movement composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven. A massive double fugue, it originally served as the final movement of his Quartet No. 13 in B♭ major (Op. 130) but he replaced it with a new […]
Dead Wild Roses: Mosquito Laser – I’ll be first in line…
We are currently being plagued by the malicious little bloodsuckers. The rainy summer has opened the floodgates for these pests. Sometimes bug spray is just not enough…
I am feverently awaiting the day when this becomes a consumer product.
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Dead Wild Roses: Harmony – Doing it Right.
Ah, if politics for us humans could be just as easy… Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Animal Harmony, Cats & Dog, Cute
Dead Wild Roses: Consider yourself lucky – The FLDS nightmare.
Religion is bad. Fundamentalist religion is even worse, as contact with the outside world and reality is even more tenuous. Education saved Carolyn Jessop’s life. That is the power of education; to gain perspective, to think critically and learn facts about the world we inhabit. Education is the antithesis of religion as enlightened people rarely […]
Dead Wild Roses: Moral Progress – Peter Singer
How we act when we have full control over another animal is indicative of the state of our morality. Peter Singer proposes how humanly we treat our animals reflects on how well we treat each other. “Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – What Creationism in Schools looks like.
Discuss. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Creationism, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Dead Wild Roses: Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empire
Afghanistan destroys Empires. Ask Great Britain, ask the Russians. The US is well along the same course, but rather than being blinded by nationalism, or ideology the American poison of choice is the continued mismanagement of priorities by the corporate elite. The corporate elite are running the foreign policy bus off a cliff […]
Dead Wild Roses: Alternative Medicine in Action! – Wootastic!
Funny, but people who actually believe in this shite want to bring it into the hospitals. Frightening.
Filed under: Medicine, Science Tagged: Alternative Medicine, What if…, Woo
Dead Wild Roses: Not so Classical Music Fridays – Tori Amos – Caught a Lite Sneeze.
Tori Amos is a fabulous musician. Her dexterity and voice are quite amazing.
The video of the same song, with her commentary.
Enjoy.
Filed under: Music Tagged: Caught a Lite Sneeze, Friday Musical Interlude, Tori Amos
Dead Wild Roses: God’s Priorities
Filed under: Humour, Religion Tagged: Atheism, Prayer, Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cat Blogging – Sisters sharing some down time.
Cats at the parental unit’s house. They have a rough life indeed. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Cats, Cute
Dead Wild Roses: Co-opting the Internet and your Privacy – Media Coroporations
The Internet has growing pains right now. The whinging from the corporations is effecting recent government policy decisions about what and how things are downloaded on the net. “Hollywood studios, recording labels, artists and internet service providers have created a program to alert internet subscribers when their accounts are used to access movies, songs […]
Dead Wild Roses: Dear Royals – Go Away.
Enough. Just enough. You people have been dominating media coverage for the last week or so, you’ve had your time in the sun, now off with thee. Why people celebrate monarchy is beyond me. Royalty is emblematic of the rot that infested humanity for hundreds of years and does not deserve the fawning we lavish […]