Mary Ellen spotted something a little different the other day on one of her walks around Millennium Park in West Roxbury: A slime mold.
This particular one has the charming name of dog vomit slime mold, sometimes also called scrambled egg slime mold, no doubt by people who are eating lunch at the time.
Although it looks kind of fungsy, it's a member of the protist kingdom, rather than the fungi kingdom, so it's more related to amoebas than mushrooms - in fact, it's as distantly related to the fungus among us as we are.
Some people try to cultivate it on purpose, while people of a more scientific bent marvel that it can solve mazes despite the lack of a brain.
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And it's also a worthy foe in
By Guanden Villenge
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 4:50pm
And it's also a worthy foe in Dungeons & Dragons.
My first thought as well. I miss my old pals that
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 06/25/2024 - 12:28am
lived upstairs from Moon Villa in Chinatown, the Atari arcade-game-programmer / biker / giant-nitrous-oxide tank dudes with the amazing loft space, basically an entire floor of a former shoe factory. (The freight elevator let them park their Harleys in the living room.)
We alternated D&D and low-stakes poker weekly to the "Hai!, Hai!" sounds of the kung fu school a floor below. My ranger character Zoner once managed to survive an instantly-lethal catoblepus attack with two improbable 1-in-20 resurrection rolls. Thems were good times!
Parties
By blues_lead
Tue, 06/25/2024 - 9:39am
I attended some epic dance parties in that space. The lack of ventilation meant everyone was basically half-undressed, vibing, intense but relaxed. I miss those days.
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