Author: Bob Benz

Rolling Stone has a great piece on the 30th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, complete with continued animosity between David Gilmour and Roger Waters, an interview with Alan Parsons and a rambling 1971 discussion with madcap Syd Barrett, including a quote from one of his songs, “Wolfpack”, that seems somehow oddly strangely appropriate while dogwoods bloom in Knoxville and bombs burst in Baghdad.

Mild the reflecting electricity eyes

Moaned Magnesium proverbs and sobs.

Imagine being able to direct sound like a laser beam. You walk past a Coke machine, and hear ice plunking into a fizzing glass. Like a voice in your head. From a source beamed directly at you. It apparently works up to 450 feet with no loss of volume or quantity, and it has the potential to make conventional speakers obsolete. With stuff like this, we wouldn’t need to invade countries that irk us. We could just beam Great White or REO Speedwagon at their leaders until they either do what we want or turn into quivering blobs of Jello. Very cool …

Make sure to read the entire story. The guy who invented this is fascinating and has a great track record.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you stumble across something like this on the Saturday religion page. Yes, it’s for real. The artiste calls it: “Undefeated.” But I like my title better. Hard to picture the son of god duking it out with Mike Tyson. Poor guy would turn the other cheek only to have Iron Mike bite his ear off. I also love the anglicized characterization of this Jesus. You’d never know this Heavyweight Champ is a Jewish dude from the Middle East …

Tap Jesus on the chin to see a bigger version. (Don’t worry. He won’t swing back.)

If you want all the gory details, read about it here.

And if you want to see a lot of other really cool Jesus pics, check out Jesus of the Week.