Sep 7, 2021
Wherein Beth and Matt discuss fireflies, snail sex, Bad Ronald, and birds, birds, birds.
A firefly! Image source: The
Tennessee Conservationist[/caption]
Nice links:
- Snail facts from snail-world.com
- 11 Cool Things You Never Knew about Fireflies from Scientific American
- The Nasty Bits: Thoughts On Lungs by Chichi Wang
- The Offal Truth about Easter (article about lamb offal) by Elizabeth Minchilli
- Quinto Quarto: inside Rome’s offal obsession from Great Italian Chefs
- Punch Romaine recipe from Saveur
- Stuart Gordon's Castle Freak
- Buzz Kulik's Bad Ronald
- Nicolas Gessner's The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
- Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy
- Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies
Thanks to our friend Henry for the proper pronunciation of Fu Qi Fei Pian!
Fu Qi Fei Pian from the Golden
Mall in Flushing (via
chopsticksandmarrow)
A bucket of snails at the market in
Palermo (photographed by Matt)