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“Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. ...once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting 'bears'.” -Laurell K. Hamilton Some of the most incredible stories in all of human experience come from struggles against nature. One of the greatest storytellers in all of music, Slaid Cleaves, sings an incredibly (and tragically, like all of his songs) memorable one…
tags: nature, Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day A view of the Seurasaari beach (Helsinki, Finland). Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: nature, Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day A tree behind the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki, Finland). Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: nature, Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day Petunias on the deck of the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki, Finland). Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: nature, Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day Pansy on the deck of the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki, Finland). Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: nature, Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day Petunias on the deck of the Seurasaari Ravintola (Helsinki, Finland). Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: nature, Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day That restaurant that I visited on Seurasaari (Helsinki, Finland). Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) Does anyone know the name of this place?
The "gastronomical cocktail" called "sex on a drip" is just one reason to hop a plane to Singapore and visit The Clinic, a theme restaurant that's probably not for the squeamish. Their website boasts, "Clinic's unique alfresco is easily identified by its hospital whites, colourful pills, syringes, drips, test-tubes, and paraphernalia in all manner of the clinical, all in tribute to the tongue in cheek pop art of Damien Hirst." I don't know about Hirst - rotting, half-preserved sharks don't make me hungry - but their website is definitely fun in a trippy, pharma-chic way, complete with…
tags: restaurant, nature, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day This ship is actually a restaurant in downtown Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 28 February 2009 [larger view].