Sometimes you just have to take a break and listen to something, engage your ears to give your poor weary eyeballs a rest. If you don't mind VERY not safe for work content, friend of the site Brian Brushwood has a comedy album that makes for a great diversion. Night Attack 2: Enjoy the Garden is available on several platforms, available at the link below.
This is a cover I found while looking for more funny book covers, and I suppose it's kind of funny in a retro sort of 'Oh look, surf-riding! How silly!' kind of way, but mostly it's just interesting and cool. This is 'The Art of Surf-Riding on the Cornish Coast,' a British book from 1934.
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The distractions a writer encounters are endless, and often involve the latest memes to hit the Internet. Commander Chris Hadfield's fantastic cover of David Bowie's Major Tom is no exception, but you really don't need me to write about that; unless you live under a rock, or on another planet, you've already heard and/or seen it, I'm sure. No, this is a gem I discovered AFTER I watched the video on YouTube.
This video is Commander Hadfield in a collaboration with the Barenaked Ladies performing a song that Hadfield and BNL's Ed Robertson co-wrote. That's cool enough on its own, but what really makes it awesome is that they performed it while Barenaked Ladies were on Earth and Hadfield was up on the ISS! I am dying to know how they overcame the transmission lag.
Of course, just in case you actually did somehow miss Major Tom, here's the video that's been causing such a commotion:
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the keyboard...
If you need a little bit of a break, stop reading this right now and go do something else.
If you need to lose the rest of your day, keep reading.
