The Explorers Club
№ CCLXIX - The Sedlec Ossuary, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.









Project PARAFFIN
Tier 1 of Project PARAFFIN has been rescheduled from 1 January-31 December 2012 to 1 February 2012-31 January 2013. One thirty-one-day month (January '12) has been exchanged for another thirty-one-day month (January '13) & under the new schedule the crucial final deadline phase will not coincide with the notoriously unproductive Thanksgiving-Yuletide-New Year's holiday season. The finishing touches are being put on Tier 1 of Project PALINDROME ahead of my departure next week for parts unknown; so, the board should be clear for PARAFFIN upon my triumphant return.

Grow or die.

The Rebel Black Dot Songs of the Day
Martin Luther King, Junior, excerpt from the "I Have a Dream" speech from Plea for Peace (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: "I would like to discuss some of the problems that we confront in the world today & some of the problems that we confront in our own nation, by using as a subject the American Dream. Now, I choose this subject because America is essentially a dream. It is a dream of a land where men of all races, of all nationalities, & of all creeds can live together as brothers."

Sonntag, 15 Januar
She & Him, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from A Very She & Him Christmas (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: The fifth & final nominee for 2011 Album of the Year was A Very She & Him Christmas. I chose "Baby, It's Cold Outside" as the album's representative R.B.D.S.O.T.D. for three reasons, aside from its innate qualities as a song. One, it's the only non-Christmas specific song on the album. Two, I am mightily impressed that Miss Deschanel & Mr. Ward were able to differentiate their version from her now famous duet with Leon Redbone from the soundtrack to the motion picture Elf. Three, it was, at long last, cold as a witch's tit yesterday. Hooray for winter!