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BBF

Hello, and welcome to Big Boob Friday.

Your model for today is internet famous, and was born September 11th, 1993 in Miami, Florida. She has a great smile and is super-adorable, she likes dogs, boats, and wearing bikinis. She stands 5‘ 2″ and measures 32 – 26 – 34 and 120 lbs. Please say CONGRATULATIONS to Miss Angie Varona.

BBF

Hello, and welcome to Big Boob Friday.

Your model for today was born April 8th, 1993 in Louisville, Kentucky, and she is 100% in unicorn territory on the hot / crazy matrix. She stands 5′ 6″ and measures 34 – 24 – 34 and 120 lbs. Please observe the rarest of all sandwich makers, Miss Erin Olash.

Wings & Things

From These Peeps:

Curving to Fly: Synthetic Adaptation Unveils Optimal Flight Performance of Whirling Fruits Author:

Jean Rabault, Richard A. Fauli, and Andreas Carlson

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Rock Around the Croc: Beethoven and the Symphony

Welcome back to your not-necessarily-weekly education in music and music history. I’m your host Sobek, and today my subject is the end of the Classical era and the beginning of the Romantic period. Alternate title, Beethoven Changes Everything Forever. Let’s start with a quote:

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of a woman”

That’s awesome. Now about some memes? Let’s see what we have around here…

Crytidz – a Message from the Good Doctor

Because I post stupid shit that doesn’t even make sense to me most of the time, one of our brothers here at hostageland sent me a link for this little beastie:

Rock Around the Croc: The French Baroque

Last week I said I was going to wrap it up with the Baroque era, but then in the comments I mentioned Jean-Baptiste Lully, and that got me thinking about how I really didn’t touch on the French Baroque. That being said, I’m not nearly as familiar with that period as with the Italian and German influences, so there’s only so much I can say. Let’s start with some more Lully, the dirty rat-bastard who swindled and murdered his way to the top of Louis XIV’s court before he accidentally killed himself by smashing his toe with a conductor’s baton and dying of gangrene:

Rock Around the Croc: The Baroque Era and the Fugue

Welcome back to your weekly putting of some knowledge. I’m your host Sobek, I know less about music than I let on, and today we’re getting into the Baroque Era. Here’s some pretty music:

Rock Around the Croc: Intro to the Baroque

Super quick post today because I was too busy this week to do anything with more detail. I’m just going to throw some stuff at you for now and then get into more detail in coming weeks.

The Baroque period runs from 1600 to 1750. Historical dates like these are usually pretty arbitrary, but the Baroque era is slightly less so than others because the start and end dates have actual significance. In 1600, the first opera properly so-called was performed, and J.S. Bach died in 1750. So those are the bookends.

I mentioned in a previous post that the big names to remember for Renaissance music are Josquin des Prez and Palestrina, and if you can casually drop those names in conversation you will definitely impress people. If you get nothing else out of these posts, I hope you will at least remember the Big Three names from the Baroque era: Johann Sebastian Bach, George Friedrich Handel, and Antonio Vivaldi. For this week, I’m just going to link some music from each, just to get us excited for what’s coming:

J.S. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor: