Smokin' banana peels. Yes kids, the hippies knew what was so magical about our favorite food. Donovan wrote about them. Sites abound with instructions on how to do it (15 pounds??). My favorite recipe is here - although it's hard to beat banana ketchup! Happy Friday! Electrical banana / Is gonna be a sudden craze / Electrical banana / Is bound to be the very next phase, right GramMa?

Marlon Brando: Beyond Destitute Just featured 3 days ago in someone else's FPP, he died last night, at 80, in an LA hospital. Sad ending for a great actor.

Revolver Films Small, but good collection of music videos here. Highlights include the bizzare "Float On" by Modest Mouse, the gorgeous video for Hayley Westenra's "Pokarekare Ana", and the strange and Monkey-featuring "Talkshow on Mute" by Incubus. Some real gems can be found by searching through the recent credits for the directors they list. more inside

The solution to all of our problems is more cowbell.

Monkeys! How many of the World's Top 100 Wonders have you seen? (SideDish score: 23) Courtesy of Howard Hillman, an interesting chap who's been "impartially researching travel wonders for 30 years."

Critical Beatdown. A Post-Theoretical Mixtape by Steven Shaviro.

TISM: a band, & buncha guys having fun and swearing a lot more inside

The Etsuko and Joe Price Collection of Japanese art objects. It isn't just monkeys, but that seemed like the right page to link to.

Curious George Lately I've found myself strangely addicted to the "Deleted FPP" page. more inside

Obsessive Friday Counting Flash Game
It's from WAXY, so you know it has to be good. As addictive and frustrating as tontie ever was. Start with the top button to get the idea and then try the bottom button. You MUST win, mustn't you? more inside

Scandinavians Don't Dream in Color. Modern Living, by the same guy. more inside

World's Away (mp3) . . .
and I'm blown away (and apparently not the only one). Summer at Shatter Creek: Musicplasma doesn't seem to know what to do with him. (I ask your forgiveness for two posts in close succession)

Molvanian Music. Zladko 'Zlad' Vladcik is the awesome voice of Molvanian electro-pop.

Rabies spread by organs taken from an infected donor has killed three transplant recipients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Gads, where are they getting organs these days? Road kill?

MONKEY ROUNDTABLE: This is the post where we openly and civilly discuss the current poo-flinging and cagerattling that's been goin' on in the lavender. more inside

News story of great embarrassment to Bush disappears? This was one of the top stories about Fahrenheit 9/11 in Google News yesterday:

Military, 9/11 families call on Bush to see Michael Moore movie
Newsday, NY - 10 hours ago
By DEEPTI HAJELA. NEW YORK -- President Bush and everyone in Washington should screen Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush film ...

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An Ancient Greek Computer. "In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets." There are also some simulations.

A Distant Glimpse of Gurdjieff by John Shirley, who has written a new book about George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. [Via Disinformation, which also has an article about Gurdjieff's case for ending war.] more inside

Kissability Permanent Makeup 'Look like yourself, only better'!!! more inside

The Wonderful World of The World Famous *BOB* 'There are boobs and there is *BOB* - New York City's self-described "female-female impersonator"'