Poetry and music go together, but rarely do you have a chance to experience a beatnik night like Monmouth University’s Center for the Arts has planned for Saturday, July 9th in the Pollak Theatre. The evening’s lineup mixes a local legend, up-and-coming talent, and a hometown guy who has reached the pinnacle of his craft. The theater will be filled with spoken word, vocals, and music ranging from jazz to hip-hop.
There are many rumors about the origin of PULP. In fact, I remember a friend in high school (shoe-gaze|you know the type that knows everything there is .
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Nerdist, it’s bugs. Not in a
Snowpiercer kind of way, though. Rather, we like them as reminders of how weird and wonderful all of Earth’s little, crawling lifeforms can be. Take, for example, this warty leaf beetle from the Amazon rainforest. It sounds like something Tolkien would toy with in his mind, and looks like… a miniature, insect version of Prince?
Laughing Squid picked up on the above video, which was posted to Andreas Kay’s YouTube channel. The species in the clip, which belongs to the genus Chlasmisus is native to the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
In the video, Chlasmisus shimmers with a royal purple carapace and a very David Bowie-like combination purple-green streak across its head. (There’s just something about the bug that screams rockstar.) It’s shown wandering around, and nibbling like a dog at a leaf beneath it.