*Hmmm…I just realized I worked Kitty Carlisle and Ultimate Fighting into the same post…

Monday, I’m thrilled that my shower gel contains spherical beads that roll over my body and rejuvenate while vitamin C nourishes and chamomile refreshes. Monday, and it feels like a Monday, I’ll refrain from bitching, allow me to jump right in…Clevelanders took part in Earth Day festivities Sunday by packing the only open entrance to the Metroparks Zoo with their giant SUVs. An hour long traffic jam had motorists gunning their engines non-stop sending a toxic cloud over Lake Erie increasing the nations carbon footprint.

Amy Winehouse – Back To Black (Mushtaq Vocal Remix)
The only real negative I can find in this song is that it’s really not a good idea to listen to it if you’re in a sunny mood – it’s the most complete buzzkill I’ve encountered in a long time… BBC TOTP Chart Blog

UFC 70 a bunch of good fights, a few disappointments, and a ton of brilliant tattoos. The smiling scruff of Jess Liaudin reads like a win win, a few photos via the UFC site, post fight interviews, a wrap up pending…maybe.

Earth Day Green Thumbness Finger Licking Green Goodness
La Bague Gazon is your own piece of turf worn as a porcelaine ring. Fresh porcelain rings by French company Raynaud take the expression green thumb literaly; they are miniature pots of grass you can wear on your fingers. The rings come in a variety of styles. Don’t forget the ‘remportage comprenant’ or kit of repotting which includes 4 pastilles of compressed peat and a sachet of grass seeds.

Mandolux is one of my favorite photographers and a prime resource for puter’ wallpapers, I ran across his Mercury post today. “This morning I was checking MetaFilter and was delighted to discover Orpheus and Eurydice.

Make sure to check out the other adaptations such as Demeter and Persephone.” If you click the myths above you’ll get sent to the Winged Sandals site where you can watch cute, tweemo-esque flash productions of Orpheus and the Underworld and the Orpheus and Eurydice myths. You can also check out Perseus and Medusa, Demeter and Persephone, and Apollo and his Oracle. Oh, and there are wallpapers and other goodies to be had on the site too.

Freddie Mercury Cape by Diana Mosely 1986
An flamboyant stage costume comprising a long cloak of scarlet velvet trimmed with imitation ermine, decorated with a pattern of simulated gold thread embellishments — 12ft 6in. (3.8m.) long; with corresponding short shoulder cape, similarly decorated, fastening at the neck with gold-coloured link chain — made for Freddie Mercury for Queen’s 1986 European Magic Tour; accompanied by a souvenir poster illustrated with a photograph of Mercury wearing an identical robe on stage. Auction estimate 4-6,000 British pounds.

Watching Saul Bass
Anatomy of a Murder – Title Sequence by Saul Bass
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World – Title Sequence by Saul Bass
Vertigo – The Title Credits by Saul Bass

Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows
USA today’s Pop Candy a favorite daily stop, turns us on to Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows. Hours of original footage from bands (Arcade Fire, The Shins, Andrew Bird, Cold War Kids) performing uncut tracks in unique places around France. Filmmaker Vincent Moon is your concept man, he’ll place bands just about anywhere and have them perform: The National, for instance, play while seated at a dinner table and The Arcade Fire play in a freight elevator, going up?

Who’da thunk that Iggy Pop and Grandpa from the Munsters would still be living, (wait when did Grandpa Munster Al Lewis die?) and in a weird cosmic coincidence, Kitty Carlisle Hart and former Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin die in the same week. I loved Kitty Carlisle, appearing on those old TV game shows as someone famous, but who remembers what she was famous for, except for being famous. She talked with NPR’s Liane Hansen in 2002: “My name was Katherine Conn, C-O-N-N, and in Paris, it was an embarrassment, because it sounded like a very naughty French word, so I couldn’t wait to change it. I adopted the surname Carlisle — after perusing a telephone book, and the minute I changed it, my mother changed hers, and she became Mrs. Carlisle!” Only in America can you reinvent yourself in France, famous for 15 minutes, American Idol hopefuls take note, Kitty was repeatedly famous for 15 minutes, or given a 30 minute game show, 15 minutes at a time, and then some. See her Wikipedia Entry.