A little hello to everyone visiting from the amazing and hilarious blog of Spirit Fingers. My girl in Hong Kong. We go way back. You don't even know.I have an aversion to puffy wedding dresses, monogram handbags & Laura Ashley, golddiggers, people who dress inappropriately for their age and Asians who dye their hair blonde.
Probably the most famous gay subtext of all time on the range where the deer and the antelope play was "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), which featured two of the most beautiful men alive on the lam in the wilderness, far from the eyes of propriety and the moderating influence of civilization, and in an outdoors that was really a gigantic locker room. Was it just friendship? Well, we'll never know. Was the chick from "The Graduate" a beard? We'll never know that either.
...and the guy who caught it is going to eat it. EAT IT. Which seems a bit chancy."It's probably a genetic deformity," (a Game and Parks Commission fishery authority) said. "I don't think there's anything wrong with it."
The second mouth didn't appear to be functional, Olberding said. He has plans forthe fish, which don't included mounting.
"I'm going to smoke it up and eat it," he said.
Peter Jackson and Josef Stalin had similar fantasies. No, not about sexy hobbits.The Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia's top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.
According to Moscow newspapers, Stalin told the scientist: "I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat."
Kevin Federline, not content to drive the customized Ferrari that his young wife's money bought, is intent on sharing his musical gifts with the world. Step one: launch a braggy website:The Web site begins with an introduction of Federline rapping, "Keep messin' with my family and you're through," played over various tabloid articles about the couple. (Spears has sued Us Weekly for $20 million, charging the celebrity magazine published a false story reporting that she and Federline had made a sex tape and were worried about its release.)
When you're done making baking soda volcanoes, and coercing hamsters into flying model airplanes:Here's a science experiment you can pretty much duplicate at home:
Physicists at the University of Chicago essentially dropped a marble into loosely packed sand, producing a jet of sand grains that briefly behaves like a special type of dense fluid.
They describe it as a novel state of matter.
"We're discovering a new type of fluid state that seems to exist in this combination of gas—air in this case—and a dense arrangement of particles," said lead researcher Heinrich Jaeger. "It's just a most amazing phenomenon.
So don't believe everything Homer Simpson says. (That's where I first heard this cliche, as it happens, although Homer credited it to the Japanese and not the Chinese. Whatever.)
oriental wisdom about ten years ago at an altitude of 35,000 feet sitting next to an American executive. He was intently studying a bound volume that had adopted this notorious formulation as the basic premise of its method for making increased profits even when the market is falling. At that moment, I didn't have the heart to disappoint my gullible neighbor who was blissfully imbibing what he assumed were the gems of Far Eastern sagacity enshrined within the pages of his workbook. Now, however, the damage from this kind of pseudo-profundity has reached such gross proportions that I feel obliged, as a responsible Sinologist, to take counteraction.
First, evidence of gay Egyptian manicurists. Now, hints that Egyptians respected dwarves.Short stature didn't prevent dwarves in ancient Egyptian culture from attaining high positions in society. Some served as assistants to the pharaoh, while others were looked up to as gods.
In the ancient necropolises of Giza and Saqqara, dwarves hailing from various professions were depicted on at least 50 tombs. They included jewelry makers, animal or pet handlers, fishermen, entertainers and dancers, nurses and midwives. Some held more important positions.
Ancient Egyptians also worshipped several dwarf gods.
Ptah, a deity associated with regeneration and rejuvenation and who was also worshipped as the creator of the universe, was sometimes portrayed as a dwarf. Another god, Bes, was associated with love, sexuality and childbirth.
Awww. Okay, the horse meat is kind of gross, but awww.
...with Jesus. And Jimi Hendrix. And my first beagle, Rebel. Rebel loved donuts.
And now, let's freak ourselves out by remembering Jon Lovitz' 1997 SNL skit which presaged this exact moment (Dunkin' Donuts guy is wooed by the Grim Reaper):Michael Vale: Oh, I see.. Well, you see, I don't think that is all the people want to see!! [ angrily thrusts up the pan of doughnuts and knocks them to the floor ] Alright?! Now, they laughed along with his character for fifteen years, and now I think they want to see him die or get some tail!!
We're all going to die, Version 43534.34535:Climate change could melt the top 11 feet of Alaska permafrost by the end of the century, according to a new study.
"If that much near-surface permafrost thaws, it could release considerable amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and that could amplify global warming," said lead author David Lawrence, with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "We could be underestimating the rate of global temperature increase."
The money jar next to it was untouched, the Nun Bun was...gone."They went right for the bun," he said. "Unfortunately I think it's somebody who wanted to take it to destroy it."
The Nun Bun gained worldwide attention in 1996 when a customer nearly took a bite of it before recognizing the revered nun in the folds of flaky pastry.
The bun was featured on world news programs, "The Late Show" with David Letterman and was even mentioned on episodes of "The Nanny" and "Mad About You."
Sometimes my weight will skyrocket to as high as 39 or 40 pounds in the winter months, too. But then, after the spring's long waddle back to the ancestral iceberg, I'm all fit 'n' trim again, back to my fightin' weight of 33 pounds.Authorities at Asahiyama Zoo are taking the penguins on 500-yard walks on the snowy grounds twice a day, said zoo spokesman Tetsuo Yamazaki.
"Just like in humans ... the fat accumulates during the winter months, and the blood-sugar level rises," Yamazaki explained from the zoo, 570 miles northwest of Tokyo.
The zoo's 15 king penguins aren't exactly obese. Penguin winter weight varies from 33 pounds to 40 pounds, said zoo official Kazunobu Maru. So far, only one of the flock is 40 pounds, he said.(Source: AP)
Tom Cruise wanted for questioning, his home being searched for falconry paraphernalia.Oprah Winfrey's private jet was forced to return to the city airport after its windshield was cracked in a collision with a bird, officials said.
Winfrey and her boyfriend, Stedman Graham, were not hurt in the incident, which occurred around 12:30 p.m. Monday just after the GulfStream jet had taken off from Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, said Santa Barbara Fire Department spokesman John Ahlman.
"This is not a totally unusual thing," Ahlman said of the cracked windshield. "We see these things pretty frequently."
Mon dieu! This one is a mystery for the ages. Googley-eyed, stinky, "mossy" mouthed, short...and had to beat pretty girls back with a large French stick.In between his defiant court appearances, Saddam Hussein sits in a cell, probably eating a bag of Doritos. He also enjoys Cheetos and Raisin Bran Crunch, at least according to the Pennsylvania National Guardsmen once assigned to him and recently interviewed by Lisa DePaulo for GQ. And despite his being heavily guarded and under constant observation, he seems to have adjusted quite nicely to his new surroundings.
“All his drinks, from milk to water to orange juice, had to be room temperature,” writes DePaulo. “He wouldn’t eat beef but seemed to like fish and chicken. Salads were acceptable, but only if they came with Italian dressing,” which he used to marinate his olives. The guards say at times Saddam would be “singing and dancing a jig, clapping his hands, stomping his feet.”
Wow, who would have thought that Britney Spears and Saddam Hussein would have anything in common? Livin' the high life. Enjoying those Cheetos. I wonder if he likes Red Bull, and greasy backup dancers, too.
I saw this the other night, and Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez. Was it long. It felt like a REALLY, REALLY long movie, and I think it could have been neatly edited into a much more effective 120 minutes.
A lap's eye view. I am chillin' in my pink cherry jammypants, watching a DVD of "Newlyweds," or as I've come to think of it, "Anatomy of a Divorce." Nick and Jessica's immaturity continues to amaze and entertain me. A steaming bowl of edamame warms my lap and fills my belly, tiny bean by tiny bean. Sigh. Relax. Snack.
Suddenly, and without invitation, Calpurnia expresses her interest in my edamame. "No," I say firmly, scootching her away from my bowl. "Cat food is for cats. Edemame is for people. Don't be pushy."
Calpurnia sits on the edge of the bed and gives me the hypnotic evil kitty staredown. "I will eat your edamame one way or another." Soon I am mesmerized by her guilt-inducing pouty staring, and I consider that edemame might not be so bad for her disgestion, after all.
Finally, I relent and share the little green soy yummy beans. I pop about six or seven beans into a bowl for Calpurnia. In my bed. Because Calpurnia is utterly pampered and indulged.
Yes, she is going to eat them. And with quite a bit of evident enjoyment. Zoom shows little green bits of edamame on her pink tongue. So cute.
Then, when her bowl is empty, with a flick of her fluffy tail, she turns her little kitty butt to my face, and she is gone. Until the next time the microwave goes BEEP BEEP BEEP.
A good choice for a day when lots of us are talking about goodwill toward men, and all - a clip of a planetary flyby of the Messenger spacecraft.
Two things Bella loves: technology and cute purses.The black, rectangular purse is covered with laminated solar panels, which resemble a very thin camera film separated by white lines. Clear plastic handles top the handbag.
The purse is designed to power any small device that uses an USB port, including cell phones, personal digital assistants, iPods, global positioning devices, voice recorders and small cameras.
If it were my broken heart, I'd pawn it, and go to Fiji for a few weeks. Forget that regifting stuff."Merry Christmas. Thank you for leaving your car door unlocked. Instead of stealing your car I gave you a present. Hopefully this will land in the hands of someone you love, for my love is gone now. Merry Christmas to you," the note said.
Get in touch with your inner freak. Do you consider yourself to be a 700 pound man, or more of a fire-eating woman? I sort of think of myself as a bearded, three-legged girl-in-a-jar. Secrets of the sideshows:..have a gander at “Popeye” Perry, a prepossessing black man in a ruffled tux - popping his eyeballs out of their sockets. Women are especially prone to Mr Perry’s unique charms, as I can attest, having seen his act many times. According to Nickell, Perry once popped out an eyeball, making a woman faint. He waited until she recovered, bent over, then popped out both eyes simultaneously, making her faint again.
Random live webcams, some of which are intended for public viewing, some of which may not be. (Oops!)
And I thought old-school Catholic moms had it tough."It's a shallow-living squid for most of its life, but then it dives down to 2,500 meters, lays 2,000 to 3,000 eggs, and carries them around for months," study leader Brad Seibel of the University of Rhode Island told LiveScience. "This is the first species of squid observed to do this."
Virgin Spaceport to be built in New Mexico, Bella to camp out nerdy-Star Wars style to be first in line to fly into space.Virgin Galactic, the British company created by entrepreneur Richard Branson to send tourists into space, and New Mexico announced an agreement Tuesday for the state to build a $225 million spaceport.
Virgin Galactic also revealed that up to 38,000 people from 126 countries have paid a deposit for a seat on one of its manned commercial flights, including a core group of 100 "founders" who have paid the initial $200,000 cost of a flight upfront. Virgin Galactic is planning to begin flights in late 2008 or early 2009.
Indiana woman makes good in London as head of Burberry:
This is creepy news for those of us who are allergic to, and thoroughly freaked out by, the little stripey buzzers.How do bees do it? Bee brains are just one-twenty thousandth the size of a human brain. The experiment implies that there is a simpler solution to the problem of face recognition than has been discovered so far by biometric security researchers.
Because it's not a Bella blog if there's not some bit'o'Hitler every once in awhile:Prosecutors said the man had downloaded the slogan from the Internet and saved it on his cell phone as a message greeting callers when he was unable to answer. It said: "I swear unswerving loyalty to Adolf Hitler! I swear absolute obedience! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"
I'm going to go with this as an explanation for why I can't dance. It's not because I'm a dork. It's because I'm asymmetrical.The researchers found that men judged to be better dancers tended to have a higher degree of body symmetry, a factor that has been linked to overall attractiveness and health in other research.
A nice companion link to that last post: How to Restore a Barbie Doll. (Of course, the ones that have been microwaved are past the point of spiffing up.)
From the AP, scientists attempt to quantify the obvious once more: little girls like to torture Barbie dolls. We all did it. And yet, we didn't grow up to be mass murderers. It's a way of rebelling, denouncing our younger affections for the doll, freaking out our mothers, and learning more about convective heating, as well. It's totally normal.
Duh. I complained about a lack of recent visitors here, forgetting that when you change blog templates, which I did around December 14, you sometimes lose things like your Sitemeter code and have to go back and manually put it in later. Fixed.
Poor Noel Gallagher. He's always so eager to talk shit about others, perhaps not realizing that people who are the product of human/monkey lovin' should never criticize others for being less than physically perfect.
