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    Rolling Stones Gantry

    Each member of the Rolling Stones — Jagger, Richards, Watts, Wood — is a magnetic bar, suspended in the air to the upper left like a rack of 4″x8″x48″ slugs of lead. Presumably some sort of internal coil winding, but not accurate to say giant guitar pickups. With an invisible gantry, they can be re-positioned, shifted from inside to outside. That distinction is crucial.

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    Rise of the Burning Cockroach

    Hawley and Shaun were cooking on their kitchen range, and a cockroach climbed out of the grease pan on fire. It ran around burning and they basically freaked out and couldn’t deal with it. It burned a long time, as apparently cockroach carapaces are made of tallow-like material. Think small, vermin spermaceti. Good news for the Apocalypse though — we can use cockroaches for candle wicks.

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