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...haven't been to Doug Wallace's place before, the big black spider hanging above the front steps will give you, if not a heart attack, a hint of what's inside: 83-year-old Wallace-"I'm a bit of a joker," he says, for the spider's only plastic-and, lurking among the books and papers that swamp what most people call the lounge room and he calls his workshop, more spiders, real but safely dead and under glass...
...JOKER In Frank Miller's upcoming Holy Terror, Batman!, the Dark Knight takes on a real-life foe (who also lurks in caves): Osama bin Laden...
...good perspective on life.”Donato agrees, calling Cleary “passionate” and “dedicated,” but also remembering his fun side and “antics.”“He was definitely a practical joker,” he says. “He was always popping his teeth out or creeping up behind people and sniffing at the back of their legs and barking like a dog. He was great fun on the road.”In 1990, after his 1989 NCAA success, Cleary took...
...forgiven for thinking this Aussie trio's debut is a misplaced artifact from an early Led Zeppelin session. Not only are the members of Wolfmother blissfully unaware that some people now find the monster guitar solo pass, but they also write Wiccan-ish songs with titles like Joker & the Thief, Witchcraft and White Unicorn ("With the white unicorn across her shoulder/ Makes you think that she might have been someone who's older") that are no less fun for being totally incomprehensible. What raises their unironic embrace of classic-rock clich above the bar of mere cuteness is frantic musicianship...
...edifice of Darwinian evolution-and at the same time puts the so-called theory of intelligent design into even greater question than it already faces. That would be true if only because any designer who deliberately made such a queer fish would have been more of a practical joker than anything else. But it also demonstrates that while evolution has plenty of missing bits of evidence, they keep showing up all the time to strengthen it. Evolution is, as ID supporters love to say, "just" a theory. It also happens to be one of the most successful scientific theories...