Isn't Lapland where Santa keeps his reindeer?

EDIT: I need a shirt like that.

Cheers to Ozzy on his birthday!

In the mid-seventies, The Righteous Brothers covered a ridiculous song about rock and roll heaven wherein they listed off names of popular artists of the time who had, "crossed the river".

It has been rewritten over the years to add more dead people to it.

For sure, it is a hell of a band, "up there," now.

Starting things off with "smelling your own farts is good for you!"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/science-smelling-farts-alzheimers-disease-b2877346.html

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2021/01/rotten-egg-gas-could-guard-against-alzheimers-disease

Pull my finger for your good health! 

"paranoid imaginations" - I'd like to plug Phil K. Dick's novella, "Clans of the Alphane Moon" for a fun twist on paranoia and other mental disorders and how they save a colony. Except depression. That one doesn't do much saving... not much of a spoiler, that one...

The "intentional Great Silence" line of thinking comes out of a bit of game theory. Assume a civilization that can master time and space and is capable of things that stagger us as much as calculus is incomprehensible to a kindergartener. Does this advanced civilization see other intelligent life as potential competition that should be destroyed? If that's a possibility, then one would have to assume that exists as a possible strategy in a game of contact and that not revealing one's civilization to such a power would improve one's own civilization's chances of long-term survival.

One such scenario is brought forward in the Berserker series of sci-fi stories that Fred Saberhagen kicked off and gave permission for other authors to use the concept, characters, and milieu in their works. Phil Dick did his own take on killer robots in his story "Second Variety" that's a real chiller of a tale.

Would have been Ozzy's Birthday today.