kateoplis:
Oscar Wrigley, a two-year-old with the same IQ as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, has become the youngest boy in Britain to be accepted into Mensa. He has been ranked in the 99.99th percentile of the population and has been ranked off the scale as the Stanford-Binet test cannot measure higher than 160.
Oscar’s father Joe, 29, an IT specialist from Reading in Berkshire, said: “Oscar was recently telling my wife about the reproductive cycle of penguins. I’m fully expecting the day to come when he turns around and tells me I’m an idiot.”
This one’s fun. My friend Michael, who runs YK Records, just helped a local by the name of Shaboi release a timely collection of Halloween-themed ditties, and you can download all 10 of them at Shaboi’s Bandcamp for free. I mentioned in a Cream entry earlier today that Curse Walk features everything from “funky 8-bit hip-hop (‘Rapsylvania ‘88’) to vampire trad-country swing (‘Hit the Town’).” But all foolin’ aside, the eclecticism on this release is actually impressive. Whoever this Shaboi fellow may be, he clearly has a broad palette as far as influences and skills go, and these tunes are not only funny but actually pretty catchy on occasion. From time to time I enjoy heartily mirthful records, and this one’s certainly good for a Halloween-mood-inducing chuckle, not to mention a few sick beats and a lovely arrangement or two. Plus it’s free. Go download!
