Miss Cellania

Thursday, October 02, 2025

The dance of the chorus girls is neither elegant nor inspired, and frankly, somewhat clumsy. Josephine Baker, fortified by a few drinks, takes the stage to show how it's done. Her dance is energetic, uninhibited, and joyous. That's how you please a crowd. This clip is from the 1935 French film Princess Tam Tam.

Yarpy Bithhdap

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A Honest Trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps

the hoopla around the Marvel movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps was whether it would be a disaster like the previous attempts at putting these four superheroes on screen. The verdict from Screen Junkies is, it's no disaster. In fact, it's a pretty fun watch. They still find plenty to snark about.

Rough Road

(via Buzzfeed)

Could We Survive by Eating Only Humans?

The premise of the "What If" series has always been to treat stupid theoretical questions seriously, and therefore we may learn something. The dumb theoretical question in this video is "How long can the human race survive on only cannibalism?" Cannibalism is a disgusting idea and has always been taboo, but Randall Munroe and Henry Reich tackle it as serious (while still inserting their opinions). Relying on cannibalism would quickly make us pure carnivores, and there are many reasons that eating carnivores is a bad idea.

Once you get around that, you get into the law of diminishing returns. If you are trying to "save" humanity, how many people must survive? It won't be enough to keep the freezers full of the unlucky ones going. Otherwise, if we all just eat each other over time, humanity will not last all that long.

Outrage

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The Quest to End Aging

If you could decide how long you want to live, how would you answer? The longer your life is, the more likely you will spend the later years in illness and disability. Would it be worth it to add years on the end, or could we ever stop the effects of aging? This is a two-part video; the first part by Kurzgesagt, the second by C.G.P. Grey. That's what they tell us, although they could easily work as two videos by two different video producers on two different subjects.l

The idea of living a lot longer than we do now opens up some philosophical questions. Would longer lives make us wiser, better community members, or encourage us to take better care of our planet? Or would it lead us to take time for granted? C.G.P. Grey looks at death and the meaning of life.

So what if we could conquer death? What would be the downside? (via Laughing Squid)

Laughing at His Misery

Have you ever done something so stupid that you didn't want anyone to know, but you had to ask for help anyway? This guy has to out up with laughter and humiliation to get his problem solved. The real punch line is that this comic was inspired by a real life story. But instead of one trusted geek, he was the target of hundreds of laughing geeks. At least he used a throwaway account for this one post. Maybe he imagined that those who laughed the hardest would one day face their own kind of embarrassing mistake. This comic is from CommitStrip.

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Antique

(via Bad Newspaper)

Women Be Pipin'

We've long enjoyed AC/DC music played on bagpipes. Now we have it in a collaboration of women pipers across three continents! This is a medley of "Thunderstruck" and "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" by The Goddesses of Bagpipes. They are Archy J (The Snake Charmer) from India, Dame of Drones from the US, and Jane Espie (The Phantom Piper) from Scotland.

RIP Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall, who knew more about chimpanzees than anyone, died today while she was on a speaking tour in California. More at Neatorama.

How Do You Use A Jar of Peanut Butter?

BesidesPDX posted this picture of a peanut butter jar at reddit and said, "I know I'm not the only one." I must have missed that Calvin and Hobbes strip, although I read it most days. And I have never heard of anyone using peanut butter like this. While most commenters also had never heard of such a thing, a few said they always tried to eat as much peanut butter as possible without disturbing the smooth surface on top. Megamanfre does the same thing a slightly different way. He's not the only one.

Have you ever done this? Have you even heard of it? Will you start doing it now because of this post?

Boysie

Boysie may have been a stray, but he was destined to be a pet. Maybe he was a pet in his past. It just took him a while to assess the odds of success with his new family. The experience of medical treatments probably did not help there, but it was the best thing for him in the long run.

Advanced Parking

(via Bits and Pieces)

The Boo Hag

Do you suffer from insomnia or sleep apnea? Do you wake up exhausted after what you thought was a good night's sleep? Or have you ever suffered sleep paralysis? You may be the victim of a boo hag! This malevolent spirit that looks like a human, but has no skin, sneaks into your bedroom through an opening as small as a keyhole. A boo hag will then sit on you and steal your life force, or maybe even your blood, as you lay there helpless.

The legend of the boo hag comes from the Gullah Geechee folk of South Carolina's coastland. So you can guess that keeping the boo hag away is a matter of painting your porch haint blue. There are other ways to deflect or defeat the boo hag, as Dr. Emily Zarka explains in this episode of Monstrum.

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Trump defends use of the U.S. military against the 'enemy within.' That means us.

Christine's Good Carrot Cake, Shared for Eternity.

I took a job on a whim on New Year's Eve - and ended up stranded at sea for six months. That was because it was New Year's Eve in 2019. (via Metafilter)

Lived Once, Buried Twice. (Thanks, WTM!)

Cats being camera hogs.

The Boys Who Ran Away to New York: How Two Dublin Kids Fooled the World in 1985.

Far Side Fans Freak Out As the ‘Cow Tools’ Prophecy Is Finally Fulfilled. (via Fark)

The radioactive ‘miracle water’ that killed its believers. (via Damn Interesting)

What I Wanted, What I Got. A tale of growing up, told in the fashions one desires. (via Metafilter)

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