Monday, January 31, 2011
You Said A Mouthful
Bad news for the fellas who are good to reciprocate a little oral pleasure for their lady friends: the human papillomavirus (HPV) many women are prone adds an increased risk of a kind of oral cancer often seen in men. Great, first we can count on asshole cancer, now we get it in the mouth?
The New England Journal of Medicine showed that men and women who reported having six or more oral-sex partners during their lifetime had a nearly ninefold increased risk of developing cancer of the tonsils or at the base of the tongue.
(thinks hard, counts on fingers)
Shit!
Of the 300 study participants, those infected with HPV were also 32 times more likely to develop this type of oral cancer than those who did not have the virus. Of the 120 HPV strains isolated from humans (about 40 of which are in the mouth and genital tracts), only four are protected against by the recently approved vaccine, Gardasil: HPV-6 and HPV-11, which cause warts; and HPV-16 and HPV-18, which cause about 70% of cervical cancers.
In the study, HPV-16 was present in 72 of the 100 cancer patients and of the 12,000 - 15,000 new cases of oropharyngeal cancer diagnosed each year, about 25% die from it. One researcher said, "When you look at the cancers associated with HPV in men — including penile cancer, anal squamous cell carcinoma, oral cancers — it's very close to the number of cases of cervical cancer that occur in the U.S. in women every year. We need to adjust the public's perception that only women are at risk."
Ladies, get your vaccines (even though studies say it only 17% effective against cancer precursors overall)! I guess I'll be masturbating safely in the other room until the fear tapers off.
The New England Journal of Medicine showed that men and women who reported having six or more oral-sex partners during their lifetime had a nearly ninefold increased risk of developing cancer of the tonsils or at the base of the tongue.
(thinks hard, counts on fingers)
Shit!
Of the 300 study participants, those infected with HPV were also 32 times more likely to develop this type of oral cancer than those who did not have the virus. Of the 120 HPV strains isolated from humans (about 40 of which are in the mouth and genital tracts), only four are protected against by the recently approved vaccine, Gardasil: HPV-6 and HPV-11, which cause warts; and HPV-16 and HPV-18, which cause about 70% of cervical cancers.
In the study, HPV-16 was present in 72 of the 100 cancer patients and of the 12,000 - 15,000 new cases of oropharyngeal cancer diagnosed each year, about 25% die from it. One researcher said, "When you look at the cancers associated with HPV in men — including penile cancer, anal squamous cell carcinoma, oral cancers — it's very close to the number of cases of cervical cancer that occur in the U.S. in women every year. We need to adjust the public's perception that only women are at risk."
Ladies, get your vaccines (even though studies say it only 17% effective against cancer precursors overall)! I guess I'll be masturbating safely in the other room until the fear tapers off.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Self-Distortrait
adderall / PCP
cocaine / ritalin
absinthe / nitrous
ambien / pot brownies
cough syrup / xanax
marijuana / mushroomsBut Is There A Gordon Freeman Cameo?
Now you can't say there are no short films based in the Half-Life world...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wizardly Focus Pocus
For twenty years, Wizard Magazine has been the lexicon of all things comic-related. But like all things in print these days, it's going digital.
Both Wizard and its sister-publication ToyFare are ceasing to produce print versions any longer. Beginning in February, they will begin production of the online publication “Wizard World”. Since when has a blog been a publication? Oh my God, I'm an online publisher!
For the past several years, Wizard has slowly been shrinking its staff down and replacing longtime writers with freelancers. "We feel this will allow us to reach an even wider audience in a format that is increasingly popular and more readily accessible," they said. The interweb farther reaching than print? Even the comic nerds figured it out!
But as far as being noteworthy, it ends an era where your geek culture and fanboy news was analog. Before ubiquitous YouTube trailer postings and blog pages, there was almost no way to get the skinny on all that stuff or as concisely. The speed of info these days makes their monthly print version obsolete, but for a time, they were the first- and the best at it.
Both Wizard and its sister-publication ToyFare are ceasing to produce print versions any longer. Beginning in February, they will begin production of the online publication “Wizard World”. Since when has a blog been a publication? Oh my God, I'm an online publisher!
For the past several years, Wizard has slowly been shrinking its staff down and replacing longtime writers with freelancers. "We feel this will allow us to reach an even wider audience in a format that is increasingly popular and more readily accessible," they said. The interweb farther reaching than print? Even the comic nerds figured it out!
But as far as being noteworthy, it ends an era where your geek culture and fanboy news was analog. Before ubiquitous YouTube trailer postings and blog pages, there was almost no way to get the skinny on all that stuff or as concisely. The speed of info these days makes their monthly print version obsolete, but for a time, they were the first- and the best at it.
Popping Koons
No artist represents talentless hack more then Jeff Koons, so to see him get bitchslapped is a treat.
Koons own style (which also made him a lot of money), which is basically appropriating pop-culture imagery and mass-produced objects, has stretched into a thirty year career. And in that time, he's been sued for copyright violation and appropriating other's images four times, losing three of the cases. Trying to give other a taste of his own medicine, Koons recently went after a gallery and bookend manufacturer who he claimed violated his intellectual property rights. His 10-foot-tall “Balloon Dog” sculpture has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Versailles, and made him think he is the only person ever to come up with the concept.
Last December, a lawyer for Koons sent cease-and-desist letters to Park Life, a San Francisco gallery and store that sells the bookends, and Imm-Living, a Toronto company that manufactures them. Since the dispute was reported, there's been no shortage of folks mocking Koons attempting to claim the rights to all balloon dogs. And the legal opinion in filed briefs didn't shape up much better for the artist: “As virtually any clown can attest, no one owns the idea of making a balloon dog, and the shape created by twisting a balloon into a dog-like form is part of the public domain”.
Koons has of late dropped his legal action against the sale of its balloon dog-shaped bookends. "Jeff Koons and I signed the papers today," said Park Life co-owner Jamie Alexander. "We can sell the balloon dog bookends. The only thing that they wanted to concede is that we couldn't advertise them as being related to Jeff Koons, which we never did." Alexander noted that the store did not agree to a confidentiality agreement about their resolution. "This is a victory for the little guy standing up to a bully. Also, it's about the absurdity of the art world."
Summary judgement? Koons is an asshole!
Koons own style (which also made him a lot of money), which is basically appropriating pop-culture imagery and mass-produced objects, has stretched into a thirty year career. And in that time, he's been sued for copyright violation and appropriating other's images four times, losing three of the cases. Trying to give other a taste of his own medicine, Koons recently went after a gallery and bookend manufacturer who he claimed violated his intellectual property rights. His 10-foot-tall “Balloon Dog” sculpture has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Versailles, and made him think he is the only person ever to come up with the concept.
Last December, a lawyer for Koons sent cease-and-desist letters to Park Life, a San Francisco gallery and store that sells the bookends, and Imm-Living, a Toronto company that manufactures them. Since the dispute was reported, there's been no shortage of folks mocking Koons attempting to claim the rights to all balloon dogs. And the legal opinion in filed briefs didn't shape up much better for the artist: “As virtually any clown can attest, no one owns the idea of making a balloon dog, and the shape created by twisting a balloon into a dog-like form is part of the public domain”.
Koons has of late dropped his legal action against the sale of its balloon dog-shaped bookends. "Jeff Koons and I signed the papers today," said Park Life co-owner Jamie Alexander. "We can sell the balloon dog bookends. The only thing that they wanted to concede is that we couldn't advertise them as being related to Jeff Koons, which we never did." Alexander noted that the store did not agree to a confidentiality agreement about their resolution. "This is a victory for the little guy standing up to a bully. Also, it's about the absurdity of the art world."
Summary judgement? Koons is an asshole!
Enthiran
Bollywood has gone berserk with their version of The Terminator...and about a dozen other sci-fi / action films
In Enthiran (Robot), Dr. Vaseegaran builds a lookalike robot, Chitti Babu, that eventually falls in love with the doctor's girlfriend Sana before getting reprogrammed to become an evil killing machine by Vaseegaran's nemesis Dr. Bohra. Chitti builds replicas of his robotic body and attempts to kill the doctor - and everybody else...
Its like Michael Bay and James Cameron gangbanged a John Woo film.
In Enthiran (Robot), Dr. Vaseegaran builds a lookalike robot, Chitti Babu, that eventually falls in love with the doctor's girlfriend Sana before getting reprogrammed to become an evil killing machine by Vaseegaran's nemesis Dr. Bohra. Chitti builds replicas of his robotic body and attempts to kill the doctor - and everybody else...
Its like Michael Bay and James Cameron gangbanged a John Woo film.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Where's The Beef
Running for the border has turned into running for a lawyer.
A false-advertising lawsuit alleges the meat mixture used by Taco Bell has binders and extenders and does not meet federal requirements to be labeled beef. In the briefs filed, the filling tested was alleged to have contained 35% beef - though it did not say who tested the meat or give any other specifics of the analysis. Taco Bell says the filling contains 88% USDA-inspected beef and the rest is water, spices and a mixture of oats, starch and other ingredients that contribute to what it calls the "quality of its product." The company said it uses no extenders to add volume to the filling.
The lawsuit seeks to make the company stop calling it "beef"...and pay the suing law firm's bill (ka-ching! the payoff!). To win, the plaintiffs would have to prove that most diners believe they are getting something other than what Taco Bell serves, though most customers realize taco meat has ingredients besides beef.
Additionally, the lawsuit cites U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines for labeling ground beef...but the guidelines don't apply to restaurants. The USDA's rules apply to meat processors — the companies Taco Bell buys its meat from. Tyson Foods Inc., the company's largest meat supplier, said it mixes and cooks the meat at three USDA-inspected plants.
Fast food often contains additives, like "isolated oat product", which is used to help processed meat hang onto moisture and flavor. Companies like McDonald's use them too, and can still says its hamburgers are all beef...but plus additives and preservatives (similar ingredients are used in many processed foods sold in stores).
Taco Bell is on the back foot now to support their beef claims, and will have to respond with a whole lot of PR and spin, but presuming customers even care if its meat or meat-like is as relevant as them wanting Mexican or Mexican-ish food.
A false-advertising lawsuit alleges the meat mixture used by Taco Bell has binders and extenders and does not meet federal requirements to be labeled beef. In the briefs filed, the filling tested was alleged to have contained 35% beef - though it did not say who tested the meat or give any other specifics of the analysis. Taco Bell says the filling contains 88% USDA-inspected beef and the rest is water, spices and a mixture of oats, starch and other ingredients that contribute to what it calls the "quality of its product." The company said it uses no extenders to add volume to the filling.
The lawsuit seeks to make the company stop calling it "beef"...and pay the suing law firm's bill (ka-ching! the payoff!). To win, the plaintiffs would have to prove that most diners believe they are getting something other than what Taco Bell serves, though most customers realize taco meat has ingredients besides beef.
Additionally, the lawsuit cites U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines for labeling ground beef...but the guidelines don't apply to restaurants. The USDA's rules apply to meat processors — the companies Taco Bell buys its meat from. Tyson Foods Inc., the company's largest meat supplier, said it mixes and cooks the meat at three USDA-inspected plants.
Fast food often contains additives, like "isolated oat product", which is used to help processed meat hang onto moisture and flavor. Companies like McDonald's use them too, and can still says its hamburgers are all beef...but plus additives and preservatives (similar ingredients are used in many processed foods sold in stores).
Taco Bell is on the back foot now to support their beef claims, and will have to respond with a whole lot of PR and spin, but presuming customers even care if its meat or meat-like is as relevant as them wanting Mexican or Mexican-ish food.
Tub Of Illegality
"When Neil Brown got high on dangerous chemicals, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Wave, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky." Yes, the new drug menace is aromatic bath salts. Are you fucking kidding?Some say the effects of the powders are as powerful as abusing methamphetamines, and authorities talk of banning their sale! How will secretaries relax after a hard day of work? Emergency calls are being reported for over-exposure to stimulants the powders often contain: mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, aka MDPV. They can cause hallucinations, paranoia, rapid heart rates and suicidal thoughts, which, coincidentally I look forward to in a dunk in a nice warm tub.
Mississippi lawmakers this week began considering a proposal to ban the sale of the powders, and a similar step is being sought in Kentucky. In Louisiana, bath salts were already outlawed by an emergency order after the state's poison center received more than 125 calls in the last quarter of 2010 involving exposure to the chemicals. There are all kinds of horror stories about bath salts, like this tale of a doctor's son: Dr. Richard Sanders said his son, Dickie, snorted some of the chemicals and endured three days of intermittent delirium. Dickie Sanders missed major arteries when he cut his throat. As he continued to have visions, his father tried to calm him, but the elder Sanders said that as he slept, his son went into another room and shot himself. Sanders warns the substances are far more dangerous than some of their brand names imply. Yeah...if you snort, smoke or inject them rather than let them dissolve in water that you soak in.
Its always the dumb motherfuckers who use things wrong that ruin it for everybody else. Let's make cars illegal because some people get killed when others drive recklessly. That's not what they're supposed to be used for, but we need to take things away from people for their own safety. Correction - things need to be taken away from you and I because other morons can't used them properly. I hope every idiot who gets high on bath salts kills themselves.
Its always the dumb motherfuckers who use things wrong that ruin it for everybody else. Let's make cars illegal because some people get killed when others drive recklessly. That's not what they're supposed to be used for, but we need to take things away from people for their own safety. Correction - things need to be taken away from you and I because other morons can't used them properly. I hope every idiot who gets high on bath salts kills themselves.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The Git 'Er Done Presidency
Ol' Dubya was disregarding legal and moral guidelines long before he got to the White House, so once he was there it was almost second nature.
From starting wars under false pretexts and redefining torture when it suited the end results, perhaps the worst abuse was during the run-up to the 2006 midterm election where Republicans lost control of the House. During that time, the Bush administration repeatedly broke the law by using federal funds to send Cabinet secretaries and other high-level political appointees to congressional districts of GOP candidates in tight races.
How'd he do it? "Because those trips were classified as official, funds from the U.S. Treasury were used to finance the trips and reimbursement from the relevant campaigns was never sought," stated the report by the Office of Special Counsel, the independent federal agency that enforces Hatch Act restrictions on partisan political activity inside the federal government. "In other cases, even when trips were correctly designated as political, agencies used U.S. Treasury funds to cover the costs associated with the trips and did not recoup those funds as required by the Hatch Act and its regulations."
OSC found that 10 agencies used federal funds to pay for political appointees to travel to events supporting Republican candidates in 2006 and were monitored closely by the White House Office of Political Affairs. That means there was White House oversight in breaking the law. Its one thing to mislead the American people to invade foreign nations for their oil, but this was a deliberate breaking of the law. The report says that aspects of OPA that came in conflict with the Hatch Act during the Bush era "have apparently existed for decades."
Unfortunately, Hatch Act violations are punishable with a maximum penalty of dismissal - and that's unavailable now that all involved have left the government. The 10 agencies that used federal funds to pay for political appointees to travel to events supporting Republican candidates in 2006 were the departments of Transportation, Interior, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Energy, the Veterans Administration, the Small Business Administration and the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
From starting wars under false pretexts and redefining torture when it suited the end results, perhaps the worst abuse was during the run-up to the 2006 midterm election where Republicans lost control of the House. During that time, the Bush administration repeatedly broke the law by using federal funds to send Cabinet secretaries and other high-level political appointees to congressional districts of GOP candidates in tight races.
How'd he do it? "Because those trips were classified as official, funds from the U.S. Treasury were used to finance the trips and reimbursement from the relevant campaigns was never sought," stated the report by the Office of Special Counsel, the independent federal agency that enforces Hatch Act restrictions on partisan political activity inside the federal government. "In other cases, even when trips were correctly designated as political, agencies used U.S. Treasury funds to cover the costs associated with the trips and did not recoup those funds as required by the Hatch Act and its regulations."
OSC found that 10 agencies used federal funds to pay for political appointees to travel to events supporting Republican candidates in 2006 and were monitored closely by the White House Office of Political Affairs. That means there was White House oversight in breaking the law. Its one thing to mislead the American people to invade foreign nations for their oil, but this was a deliberate breaking of the law. The report says that aspects of OPA that came in conflict with the Hatch Act during the Bush era "have apparently existed for decades."
Unfortunately, Hatch Act violations are punishable with a maximum penalty of dismissal - and that's unavailable now that all involved have left the government. The 10 agencies that used federal funds to pay for political appointees to travel to events supporting Republican candidates in 2006 were the departments of Transportation, Interior, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Energy, the Veterans Administration, the Small Business Administration and the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Sounds Like Somebody Better Not Watch That Jim Carrey Movie Again
Jason Mraz is not only a pretentious pop musician, but utterly nauseating with his super-cutesy, over-sweetened shtick. On his blog, Freshness Factor Five Thousand (vomit), which is filled with ball-less, wannabe charm and horribly cliché tweets ("Friendship. It's a life boat" and "Change is gonna come - but probably not from the vending machine.") that should earn him endless hours of beating, he explained his hard on for the number 23 and how it has played a significant role in his life...and I'm sharing that with you because every faux-entertainment website and blog has been spreading the details as if it was important or heartwarming.
Here are all the parallels to 23 in Jason’s life:
• He was born on June 23rd
• His best friend born on July 23rd
• They both got a tattoo “23″ on his brithday at The Chelsea, a hotel on 23rd street
• He always plays 23 in Vegas (which means he plays roulette, which is a game for pussies)
• Fiancee Tristan Prettyman born on May 23rd
• Mraz met Tristan on September 23rd
• He lives 23 miles away from Tristan (I don't believe that)
• Tristan has a “23″ tattoo
• Bought Tristan’s engagement ring on November 23rd
• He proposed to Tristan on the 23rd hour of December 23rd
• The engagement ring has 46 stones (23 for each of them) and weighs 2.3 carats
• Tristan Ann Prettyman-Mraz has 23 letters!
• Mr. And Mrs. Jason Thomas Mraz has 23 letters!
• Go Fuck Yourself You Douche has 23 letters!
I hear shit like this and I get angry at how fluffy and pointless celebrity stories are...and how useless the info - if you can call it that, is.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Loveless
What does rejection look like? Ask the women booted off The Bachelor. This is Faces Of Rejected Bachelorettes.
Dead And Still In Better Shape Than You
Exercise guru and fitness fanatic Jack LaLanne died at 96 yesterday from respiratory failure due to pneumonia. He later did 6000 sit ups.
Lalanne, who had heart valve surgery in 2009, recently that "I can't afford to die. It would wreck my image." He credited a sudden interest in fitness with transforming his life as a teen, and built an empire over the next eight decades as a result. "The only way you can hurt the body is not use it," LaLanne said. "Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late."
His workout program ran from the 1950s to the '70s. He also founded a chain of fitness studios that bore his name, much like his raw fruit and vegetable juicer. When he turned 43 in 1957, he performed more than 1,000 push-ups in 23 minutes on the TV show "You Asked For It". At 60, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco — handcuffed, shackled and towing a boat. He performed a similar feat in Long Beach harbor a decade later.
LaLanne was born in 1914 and was a self proclaimed sugar addict, but the turning point occurred when he heard a lecture by pioneering nutritionist Paul Bragg, who advocated the benefits of brown rice, whole wheat and a vegetarian diet. Soon after, he changed his diet and constructed a makeshift gym in his back yard, testing exercises and routines on local firemen and police who worked out there. He said his own daily routine usually consisted of two hours of weightlifting and an hour in the swimming pool.
"It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it."
Lalanne, who had heart valve surgery in 2009, recently that "I can't afford to die. It would wreck my image." He credited a sudden interest in fitness with transforming his life as a teen, and built an empire over the next eight decades as a result. "The only way you can hurt the body is not use it," LaLanne said. "Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late."
His workout program ran from the 1950s to the '70s. He also founded a chain of fitness studios that bore his name, much like his raw fruit and vegetable juicer. When he turned 43 in 1957, he performed more than 1,000 push-ups in 23 minutes on the TV show "You Asked For It". At 60, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco — handcuffed, shackled and towing a boat. He performed a similar feat in Long Beach harbor a decade later.
LaLanne was born in 1914 and was a self proclaimed sugar addict, but the turning point occurred when he heard a lecture by pioneering nutritionist Paul Bragg, who advocated the benefits of brown rice, whole wheat and a vegetarian diet. Soon after, he changed his diet and constructed a makeshift gym in his back yard, testing exercises and routines on local firemen and police who worked out there. He said his own daily routine usually consisted of two hours of weightlifting and an hour in the swimming pool.
"It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it."
Friday, January 21, 2011
Big Love On The Run
The polygamous Utah family whose "Sister Wives" reality TV show turned into a criminal bigamy investigation, has moved out of state. Moved, or trying to outrun the long arm of the law?
According to his attorney, Kody Brown moved his "family" of four "wives" - Meri, Janelle, Christine and newest family member Robyn, plus 16 kids to Nevada in order to "pursue new opportunities". If you want a new opportunity, ditch cheaper-by-the-dozen and start a new single life. Brown is only legally married to Meri, with whom he has one child, but has multiple children with two of the other three women; Janelle, bore him six children (ages 5 to 15) and Christine turned out five (ages 6 to 14, with one on the way). What the allure is to pursue Robyn (who already has three children) is anyone's guess.
Even in the Latter Day haven of Utah, bigamy is a third-degree felony in Utah. Under current law, a person can be found guilty of bigamy through cohabitation, not just legal marriage contracts, though no charges have been filed...yet. If everything completely goes to shit, we're looking at Waco part 2, but more likely, it will just some very pissed off neighbors who don't like the house next door turned into a dormitory. I'm just shocked that it's an actual show and that it's been renewed for a second season. If there is one boon, at least Colorado will be getting a whole new batch of organ donors.
According to his attorney, Kody Brown moved his "family" of four "wives" - Meri, Janelle, Christine and newest family member Robyn, plus 16 kids to Nevada in order to "pursue new opportunities". If you want a new opportunity, ditch cheaper-by-the-dozen and start a new single life. Brown is only legally married to Meri, with whom he has one child, but has multiple children with two of the other three women; Janelle, bore him six children (ages 5 to 15) and Christine turned out five (ages 6 to 14, with one on the way). What the allure is to pursue Robyn (who already has three children) is anyone's guess.
Even in the Latter Day haven of Utah, bigamy is a third-degree felony in Utah. Under current law, a person can be found guilty of bigamy through cohabitation, not just legal marriage contracts, though no charges have been filed...yet. If everything completely goes to shit, we're looking at Waco part 2, but more likely, it will just some very pissed off neighbors who don't like the house next door turned into a dormitory. I'm just shocked that it's an actual show and that it's been renewed for a second season. If there is one boon, at least Colorado will be getting a whole new batch of organ donors.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Keep Your Laws Of My Body
Some Colorado lawmakers say their state should be the first one where people become organ donors by default. Maybe after that, they can set up automatic ballot submissions on election day.
Colorado's proposal, introduced last week, would change the process for renewing driver's licenses and ID cards so applicants are assumed to be organ and tissue donors unless they initial a statement that says they want to opt out. Forgot to check your fine print? Thanks for your gizzards!
The "presumed consent" system is common in Europe and is credited with dramatically raising donation rates, as well as safeguarding their reputation of being guardians of personal liberties. In the U.S., similar approaches have been defeated by lawmakers in Delaware, Illinois and New York. Organ donation advocates are looking to dominate Colorado, where nearly two-thirds of ID holders already volunteer as donors — a higher rate than in any other state.
One of the bill's sponsors, Rep. Daniel Pabon, said the change would simply make it easier for people already willing to donate their organs when they die. Easier? Easier than the current system where the DMV asks each applicant? Like, in case they forget thy wanted to donate their organs?
"This takes a bunch of people who otherwise might donate but just get in the DMV and don't want to stand in line, or they forget, and this makes it easier". Shit, I thought I was just being a smart ass about dumbasses who actually forget. And if a few minutes in line is enough to sway you from the gift of life, you weren't going to give it.
Applicants would see a statement that says, "You are automatically deemed to have consented to being an organ and tissue donor and this designation will appear on your driver's license or identification card". Unless they're in a rush or forget that too. Opponents of the Delaware bill called it an intrusion into people's privacy that treats organs as commodities. People against the opt-out method argue presumed consent would force someone to become a donor against their will. Others fear a medical team won't work as hard to save them if there is a greater benefit to harvesting the organs. Or maybe they'll get a government bonus for meeting a harvest quota...
Colorado's proposal, introduced last week, would change the process for renewing driver's licenses and ID cards so applicants are assumed to be organ and tissue donors unless they initial a statement that says they want to opt out. Forgot to check your fine print? Thanks for your gizzards!
The "presumed consent" system is common in Europe and is credited with dramatically raising donation rates, as well as safeguarding their reputation of being guardians of personal liberties. In the U.S., similar approaches have been defeated by lawmakers in Delaware, Illinois and New York. Organ donation advocates are looking to dominate Colorado, where nearly two-thirds of ID holders already volunteer as donors — a higher rate than in any other state.
One of the bill's sponsors, Rep. Daniel Pabon, said the change would simply make it easier for people already willing to donate their organs when they die. Easier? Easier than the current system where the DMV asks each applicant? Like, in case they forget thy wanted to donate their organs?
"This takes a bunch of people who otherwise might donate but just get in the DMV and don't want to stand in line, or they forget, and this makes it easier". Shit, I thought I was just being a smart ass about dumbasses who actually forget. And if a few minutes in line is enough to sway you from the gift of life, you weren't going to give it.
Applicants would see a statement that says, "You are automatically deemed to have consented to being an organ and tissue donor and this designation will appear on your driver's license or identification card". Unless they're in a rush or forget that too. Opponents of the Delaware bill called it an intrusion into people's privacy that treats organs as commodities. People against the opt-out method argue presumed consent would force someone to become a donor against their will. Others fear a medical team won't work as hard to save them if there is a greater benefit to harvesting the organs. Or maybe they'll get a government bonus for meeting a harvest quota...
The Only Way I'd Ever Like "Wild Hogs"
A man in southern Georgia, apparently fed up with all the wild hogs on his property and unwilling to spend time outdoors, created a complex network of webcams linked to powerful shotguns to make instant bacon.
The setup is believed to be the work of former property owner Jay Williams, and would have allowed the him to observe the area and fire the guns remotely. The Benelli shotguns were aimed towards an often infested nearby food plot. The shotguns' 3-inch shells were fed with magazine extension tubes, which means a whole lot of hoggies could get blasted before needing to reload. Two identical apparatuses were found in the area, totaling a half dozen web-connected firearms.
A utilities contractor came across them back in November 2010 and alerted the authorities. Homeland Security also investigated: "At this time there is no evidence to suggest that such equipment was established for any purpose other than illegal hunting activity." They did point out it could be used for more "nefarious activity that would be of direct concern to the law enforcement and public safety communities". Yes, because the most dangerous prey is...man!
Where Trannies, Down Syndrome Kids, And Cocaine Meet
Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1989 film Santa Sangre will finally be released on DVD and Blu-ray next week.
What can you expect from the famed cult director? The film the tale of "a young circus performer, the crime of passion that shatters his soul, and the macabre journey back to the world of his armless mother and deaf-mute lover". And this clip.
What can you expect from the famed cult director? The film the tale of "a young circus performer, the crime of passion that shatters his soul, and the macabre journey back to the world of his armless mother and deaf-mute lover". And this clip.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Walking Dead
Former Vice President / Satanic minion Dick Cheney believes he'll have to make a decision on whether to have a heart transplant. Apparently, just feeding on the hearts of newborns is not enough to keep his thirst at bay him alive.
Cheney is getting by now on a battery-powered heart pump, which makes it "awkward to walk around", so he is mainly confined to his throne of skulls. He also says he hasn't made a decision yet on a transplant, but adds that "the technology is getting better and better". His hope is that science could allow a human heart would survive in his evil husk.
Cheney (69), suffered a heart attack last year, his fifth since the age of 37. He had bypass surgery in 1988, as well as two subsequent angioplasties to clear narrowed coronary arteries. Clearly, dark forces are literally hellbent keeping him alive. In 2001, he had a special pacemaker implanted in his chest, which was powered by the bio-electrical field that surrounds all living things. Though unconfirmed, it was said a cat or small dog could give him almost six hours of service. In 2008, Cheney had a normal rhythm - a beat, restored to his heart with an electric shock. It was the second time in less than a year that he had experienced the phenomenon referred to as a "pulse".
Announcement of the potential transplant will be signaled by a blood moon and massive earthquakes in the Ring of Fire.
Cheney is getting by now on a battery-powered heart pump, which makes it "awkward to walk around", so he is mainly confined to his throne of skulls. He also says he hasn't made a decision yet on a transplant, but adds that "the technology is getting better and better". His hope is that science could allow a human heart would survive in his evil husk.
Cheney (69), suffered a heart attack last year, his fifth since the age of 37. He had bypass surgery in 1988, as well as two subsequent angioplasties to clear narrowed coronary arteries. Clearly, dark forces are literally hellbent keeping him alive. In 2001, he had a special pacemaker implanted in his chest, which was powered by the bio-electrical field that surrounds all living things. Though unconfirmed, it was said a cat or small dog could give him almost six hours of service. In 2008, Cheney had a normal rhythm - a beat, restored to his heart with an electric shock. It was the second time in less than a year that he had experienced the phenomenon referred to as a "pulse".
Announcement of the potential transplant will be signaled by a blood moon and massive earthquakes in the Ring of Fire.
RGB Art
Milan-based collective Carnovsky (Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla) present an exhibition which showcases a series of overlapping wallpapers. When viewed through a red, green or blue filter, the individual designs stand out from the other two.
Four Thousand Bad Ideas
There's nothing better a gas main explosion - like the one from Philadelphia last night, to tie into this post.
We've hit 4,000 posts.
Now, I'm not one to make light of tragic events (that often), and it is certainly sad that people were killed as a result of this accident, but in a way it's kinda fitting. Like this blog, for some it is difficult to look at, generally unpleasant to think about, and could have (potentially) been avoided. But for others, it's something to regard with interest, no matter how unsavory or outside your comfort zone, because it serves it's purpose of adding depth and knowledge to your day.
The bottom line is, shit exploded and I'm trying to be profound in a slightly humorous way - take it how you will.
Sorry for the lack of fanfare, but you can get nostalgic from our 3000th back in October of '09 which has a ton of links to my favorite posts. Our fourth birthday is in April, so maybe we'll fill in the gaps with a mini-best of since the 3K marker. Or maybe you'll have to wait until the 5 year / 5K anniversary. Sometimes I can be a dick like that...
We've hit 4,000 posts.
Now, I'm not one to make light of tragic events (that often), and it is certainly sad that people were killed as a result of this accident, but in a way it's kinda fitting. Like this blog, for some it is difficult to look at, generally unpleasant to think about, and could have (potentially) been avoided. But for others, it's something to regard with interest, no matter how unsavory or outside your comfort zone, because it serves it's purpose of adding depth and knowledge to your day.
The bottom line is, shit exploded and I'm trying to be profound in a slightly humorous way - take it how you will.
Sorry for the lack of fanfare, but you can get nostalgic from our 3000th back in October of '09 which has a ton of links to my favorite posts. Our fourth birthday is in April, so maybe we'll fill in the gaps with a mini-best of since the 3K marker. Or maybe you'll have to wait until the 5 year / 5K anniversary. Sometimes I can be a dick like that...
Anyway, thanks for putting up with / indulging me.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The Celebrity Justice (Steering) Wheel
Being a celebrity (even a has been one) allows you to get away with murder. And once you've done that, there's lots of other lesser crimes you can also get away with. Just ask stubble-faced soccer-mom looking Motley Crüe singer Vince Neil.
Neil will take a plea deal and serve two weeks of jail time, plus two weeks of house arrest, for driving drunk in his Lamborghini last summer near the Las Vegas Strip. But converted into celebrity punishment, that's zero jail time and a fortnight of takeout.
"I have recognized that you can't drink and drive at all," Neil's publicist said on his behalf, underscoring the sincerity of his feelings on the matter. If the charges had been contested, the singer could have faced up to six months. "There's just a point in your life where you kind of stop, that's what happened with me," he once told an AP reporter while promoting his tell-all book. Neil said he hadn't used drugs in 20 years and had stopped abusing alcohol, which clearly stuck. He and his fourth wife live in Las Vegas, where Neil also owns tattoo shops and two bars.
For those who didn't care much for or follow the Crüe back in the day, Neil previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter and drunken driving in a 1984 crash that killed his passenger, Nicholas Dingley, drummer with the shitty glam-rock group Hanoi Rocks. Uninjured, he served 20 days in jail and agreed to pay $2.5 million in restitution to victims.
Neil will take a plea deal and serve two weeks of jail time, plus two weeks of house arrest, for driving drunk in his Lamborghini last summer near the Las Vegas Strip. But converted into celebrity punishment, that's zero jail time and a fortnight of takeout.
"I have recognized that you can't drink and drive at all," Neil's publicist said on his behalf, underscoring the sincerity of his feelings on the matter. If the charges had been contested, the singer could have faced up to six months. "There's just a point in your life where you kind of stop, that's what happened with me," he once told an AP reporter while promoting his tell-all book. Neil said he hadn't used drugs in 20 years and had stopped abusing alcohol, which clearly stuck. He and his fourth wife live in Las Vegas, where Neil also owns tattoo shops and two bars.
For those who didn't care much for or follow the Crüe back in the day, Neil previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter and drunken driving in a 1984 crash that killed his passenger, Nicholas Dingley, drummer with the shitty glam-rock group Hanoi Rocks. Uninjured, he served 20 days in jail and agreed to pay $2.5 million in restitution to victims.
Did I Fire Five Shots Or Six?
The interweb is a wonderful place, full of lists and databases. Everybody knows the movie one, and some folks even take a peek at the adult film one, but what if you want to find out what gun your favorite actor used in a particular flick or TV show?
The Internet Movie Firearms Database can tell you about Arnold's AMT Hardballer .45 Longslide from The Terminator or Chow Yun-Fat's double fisted Norinco Type 54 (Tokarev TT-33) in Hard Boiled. Aside from rocket launchers, grenades, and various other explosive devices, the list has weapons that don't even exist. The LAPD 2019 blaster? The Morita Mk I Rifle? Yep, they've got the pictures and details. And you can not only search by title or weapon, but they even have it listed by actor. Finally, I can see Harrison Ford used both a DL-44 Blastech blaster pistol and Smith & Wesson M1917 Revolver! Its a very cool way to waste time nerding out.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Trenta? Trenta! TRENTA!
Run...it's coming!
Starbucks will begin their nationwide rollout Tuesday of its Trenta cup size. The massive cup can hold nearly a quart's worth of iced beverages such as coffee, tea and lemonade. Or as in the picture, a whole bottle of wine.
Starbucks' Trenta, which means "30" in Italian, or "bladder buster" in English, will be 31 ounces and will only cost about 50 cents more than their 20-ounce Venti size. The beverage size with an undertow, was tested in several markets last year, and executives were pleased with the diabetes causing results. The giant cups will be introduced tomorrow in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona. Me and the rest of California will be able to buy them beginning February 1, and the nationwide rollout is expected to be completed by May 3.
God help us all.
Starbucks will begin their nationwide rollout Tuesday of its Trenta cup size. The massive cup can hold nearly a quart's worth of iced beverages such as coffee, tea and lemonade. Or as in the picture, a whole bottle of wine.
Starbucks' Trenta, which means "30" in Italian, or "bladder buster" in English, will be 31 ounces and will only cost about 50 cents more than their 20-ounce Venti size. The beverage size with an undertow, was tested in several markets last year, and executives were pleased with the diabetes causing results. The giant cups will be introduced tomorrow in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona. Me and the rest of California will be able to buy them beginning February 1, and the nationwide rollout is expected to be completed by May 3.
God help us all.
They will try to revive the long extinct species by obtaining tissue over summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory. The nuclei of mammoth cells will be inserted into an elephant's egg cell where the nuclei have been removed, creating an embryo containing mammoth genes. The embryo will later be inserted into an elephant's uterus with the hope that the animal will eventually give birth to a baby mammoth, just the way God intended it to be.
At the heart of the project is a new technique to extract DNA from frozen cells. Previously, this was an obstacle to cloning attempts because of the damage cells sustained in the freezing process, but in 2008, Japanese scientists cloned a mouse from the cells of another that had been kept in temperatures similar to frozen ground for 16 years. The extracted cell nucleus from the dead mouse (not to be confused with deadmau5) was implanted into the egg of a live mouse.
Some mammoth remains still retain usable tissue samples, making the species a better candidate for cloning, unlike dinosaurs, which disappeared 65 million years ago and whose remains exist only as fossils. Why a majority of the huge creatures that once strode in large herds across Eurasia and North America died out towards the end of the last Ice Age is still debated. Some hold that mammoths were hunted to extinction by humans, while others argue that climate change was more to blame. If the Japanese are successful, they may not only help to answer those questions, but also find horrible ways to exploit the revived species. Sailor Moon branded mammoth sandwich vending machines, anyone?
Friday, January 14, 2011
Darwin's Class
Authorities say seven San Francisco middle school students were taken to hospitals after apparently mistaking rat poison for candy. Y'know, that delicious candy that comes in the box with a skull and rat on it!
Actually, students from the Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School (way to honor that legacy) were taken to the emergency room yesterday after ingesting a blue cube they found atop a filing cabinet. Because there's usually unwrapped candy on a piece of furniture. At school. Just laying around. Crews were called to the school after one of the students told a parent about the incident, and a teacher later called poison control.
The children showed no symptoms (other than stupidity), and were taken to hospitals as a precaution, as broken glass, rusty nails and AIDS filled condoms were also strewn about and potentially ingested. School officials say the incident is under investigation, though the real location ought to be those kids homes to determine if the parent are fit enough to raise children and not teach them not to eat blue cubes they find atop a filing cabinet.
Actually, students from the Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School (way to honor that legacy) were taken to the emergency room yesterday after ingesting a blue cube they found atop a filing cabinet. Because there's usually unwrapped candy on a piece of furniture. At school. Just laying around. Crews were called to the school after one of the students told a parent about the incident, and a teacher later called poison control.
The children showed no symptoms (other than stupidity), and were taken to hospitals as a precaution, as broken glass, rusty nails and AIDS filled condoms were also strewn about and potentially ingested. School officials say the incident is under investigation, though the real location ought to be those kids homes to determine if the parent are fit enough to raise children and not teach them not to eat blue cubes they find atop a filing cabinet.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Drugs Run In The Family
If brother Brett liked his painkillers too much, then sister Brandi Farve learned her lesson and left opiates for something with a little more...zip. She was arrested yesterday in a methamphetamine bust.
Favre had been jailed on $40,000 bond on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and generating hazardous waste. She is reresented by defense attorneys Richard V. Dymond and Chad Favre (!), a distant cousin and close friend of Brandi Favre. Guess who's trying to worm his way into the family to get some NFL connections...
If convicted, Brandi Favre faces up to $1 million in fines and up to 30 years in prison on each count. She was among five people arrested during a drug raid at a condo in Diamondhead, Misssissippi. About nine grams of methamphetamine (worth about $1,000, don't ask how I know) were seized. Deputies found a meth lab in the bathroom and had to evacuate seven nearby condos while a hazardous materials team cleared out all the drug-making chemicals. And it wasn't their encounter with Brandi Favre.
In 1999, Favre, her sister-in-law and another woman were booked with felony shoplifting. In 1996, she was charged with unlawful use of a weapon in connection with a drive-by shooting at a motel in Slidell, LA. At the time she was a student at Southern Mississippi, where Brett Favre played. She completed a program in Louisiana that allowed her criminal charges to be erased, and clearly, she'll learned from that mistake and make the right choices in life. If she keeps it up, she may supplant Brett as the official Favre family black sheep.
Favre had been jailed on $40,000 bond on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and generating hazardous waste. She is reresented by defense attorneys Richard V. Dymond and Chad Favre (!), a distant cousin and close friend of Brandi Favre. Guess who's trying to worm his way into the family to get some NFL connections...
If convicted, Brandi Favre faces up to $1 million in fines and up to 30 years in prison on each count. She was among five people arrested during a drug raid at a condo in Diamondhead, Misssissippi. About nine grams of methamphetamine (worth about $1,000, don't ask how I know) were seized. Deputies found a meth lab in the bathroom and had to evacuate seven nearby condos while a hazardous materials team cleared out all the drug-making chemicals. And it wasn't their encounter with Brandi Favre.
In 1999, Favre, her sister-in-law and another woman were booked with felony shoplifting. In 1996, she was charged with unlawful use of a weapon in connection with a drive-by shooting at a motel in Slidell, LA. At the time she was a student at Southern Mississippi, where Brett Favre played. She completed a program in Louisiana that allowed her criminal charges to be erased, and clearly, she'll learned from that mistake and make the right choices in life. If she keeps it up, she may supplant Brett as the official Favre family black sheep.
More Proof It's Awful
So the latest turn in the Spider-Man musical chronicles, which has is apparently going to require it's own tag since I'm tired of re-linking back posts, is that it's been endorsed. And while I'm never swayed by the fancy of famous personalities, I can certainly use this backing to to bolster my point: "Turn Of The Dark", meet your newest fanboy, Glenn Beck.
If that sobbing retard (no, not you John Boehner) likes it, it's definitely no good. "This is better than 'Wicked!'" he raved on his radio program, after seeing the show twice: first on Saturday and returning Wednesday, where he shared he gave it a standing ovation. Wow, what higher honor can a production receive than the gravitas of a political hack?
Beck went backstage to meet director Julie Taymor and Bono and The Edge, who needed the musical as an outlet for the bad music they couldn't fit onto their latest album. After calling it the 21st-century equivalent of "The Phantom of the Opera", he added, "this is history of Broadway being made!" And Glenn Beck would know, being Broadway's most knowledgeable and respected reviewer.
He mocked theater critics who are giving the show it's just deserts, and suggested it would be worth donating a kidney to snag a ticket. "I mean, you've got two kidneys. Don't give both kidneys up — go see 'Wicked' before you give both kidneys," Beck said. "But give a kidney to go see 'Spider-Man.' I'm telling you, mark my words, it's being panned right now, nobody's saying good stuff about it. I'm telling you, you go buy your ticket — you buy your ticket now, if you're thinking about coming to New York, because when this thing opens and it's starting to run, you will not be able to get tickets to this for a year." In response, the National Kidney Registry issued a single, one line statement: "Go fuck yourself Glenn Beck".
One of Beck'slackeys spokesmen said Beck paid for his tickets and is not an investor, which explains how he got his backstage pass to meet the show's creative team. The show is under such scrutiny and bad press that the likes of Glenn Beck advocating it don't necessarily undermine it - though it's clear that shit + shit just equals more shit.
If that sobbing retard (no, not you John Boehner) likes it, it's definitely no good. "This is better than 'Wicked!'" he raved on his radio program, after seeing the show twice: first on Saturday and returning Wednesday, where he shared he gave it a standing ovation. Wow, what higher honor can a production receive than the gravitas of a political hack?
Beck went backstage to meet director Julie Taymor and Bono and The Edge, who needed the musical as an outlet for the bad music they couldn't fit onto their latest album. After calling it the 21st-century equivalent of "The Phantom of the Opera", he added, "this is history of Broadway being made!" And Glenn Beck would know, being Broadway's most knowledgeable and respected reviewer.
He mocked theater critics who are giving the show it's just deserts, and suggested it would be worth donating a kidney to snag a ticket. "I mean, you've got two kidneys. Don't give both kidneys up — go see 'Wicked' before you give both kidneys," Beck said. "But give a kidney to go see 'Spider-Man.' I'm telling you, mark my words, it's being panned right now, nobody's saying good stuff about it. I'm telling you, you go buy your ticket — you buy your ticket now, if you're thinking about coming to New York, because when this thing opens and it's starting to run, you will not be able to get tickets to this for a year." In response, the National Kidney Registry issued a single, one line statement: "Go fuck yourself Glenn Beck".
One of Beck's
Now Lunch Is Ruined
I don't believe she has a boyfriend, but I'm certain she has Chili's comp tickets.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Resign And Hide
Lebanon's year-old unity government collapsed today after Hezbollah ministers and their allies resigned over the expected conclusions by a U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Terrorists fleeing like cockroaches? Sounds about right...
The walkout ushers in the country's worst political crisis since 2008, which goes to show how fucked the country is that a government collapse is only the worst political crisis in two years. The tribunal is widely expected to name members of Hezbollah in upcoming indictments, which many correctly fear would re-ignite sectarian tensions that have plagued the tiny country for decades.
Violence has been a major concern as tensions rise in Lebanon, where Shi'ites, Sunnis and Christians each make up about a third of the country's four million people. In 2008, sectarian clashes killed 81 people and nearly plunged Lebanon into another civil war. The current government was formed in November of 2009
Hezbollah, is backed by Iran and Syria, and has denounced the tribunal as an "Israeli project", urging Western-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri — the son of the slain politician — to reject any findings by the court even before it announced any indictments. And to no one's surprise, the prime minister refused to break cooperation with the tribunal. Prime Minister Hariri's office had no immediate comment on the walkout, and interestingly, Mr. Hariri happened to be in Washington to meet with President Obama.
If only it was as easy as inditing terrorists in their actions to get them all out of their positions of power in Middle Eastern government...
The walkout ushers in the country's worst political crisis since 2008, which goes to show how fucked the country is that a government collapse is only the worst political crisis in two years. The tribunal is widely expected to name members of Hezbollah in upcoming indictments, which many correctly fear would re-ignite sectarian tensions that have plagued the tiny country for decades.
Violence has been a major concern as tensions rise in Lebanon, where Shi'ites, Sunnis and Christians each make up about a third of the country's four million people. In 2008, sectarian clashes killed 81 people and nearly plunged Lebanon into another civil war. The current government was formed in November of 2009
Hezbollah, is backed by Iran and Syria, and has denounced the tribunal as an "Israeli project", urging Western-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri — the son of the slain politician — to reject any findings by the court even before it announced any indictments. And to no one's surprise, the prime minister refused to break cooperation with the tribunal. Prime Minister Hariri's office had no immediate comment on the walkout, and interestingly, Mr. Hariri happened to be in Washington to meet with President Obama.
If only it was as easy as inditing terrorists in their actions to get them all out of their positions of power in Middle Eastern government...
EmptySpace
MySpace is laying off nearly half its staff, seen as potential preparation for the sale of the former social networking leader and clear dominance by rival Facebook.The
MySpace still gets around 60 million visitors a month, but is way behind the 150 million monthly visitors to Facebook. Facebook was recently valued at $50 billion after getting cash from Goldman Sachs and Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, which for 2.5 time more visitors is much better than the $580 million MySpace was purchased for in 2005. Initially, the deal paid for itself after Google Inc inked a three-year $900 million search advertising deal, but even for it's success, you can argue nobody is making movies about Tom from MySpace.
In October, the company launched a new version of the website centered on music, movies and entertainment for the 35-year-old-and-under crowd. They are making "strategic local partnerships" in Britain, Germany and Australia to manage advertising sales and content - some in connection with Fox Networks (what a surprise). There have also been reports that MySpace China, a separately owned and managed company, is laying off most of its workers, and that the business is also being shopped to private equity firms.
Sad to think that even with tens of millions of monthly visitors, it's a company on the downturn...and don't be shocked when this same thing happens to Facebook by 2020.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
A Fine Vintage Of Gallo
Fringe celebrity actor / director Vincent Gallo has a merchandise website, and you can get more than just copies of his movies or autographed picture:
Have you ever watched a movie and fallen in love with one of the actors? The way they looked or a character they played? Afterwards you thought of them over and over. Daydreaming, imagining things, sexy things. When I was very young I was madly in love with Tuesday Weld and Charlotte Rampling. On my 14th birthday I went to see the film Rolling Thunder and had my biggest crush of all on the actress Linda Haynes. I wished and wished and wished everyday that I could meet all these girls. I thought of a lot of sexy things with Susan Blakely after seeing her in Lords of Flatbush. In my mind I could do with her anything I wanted to do. So believe me, I know and understand what it's like to wish and dream about spending time with a movie star. Doing things that couples do. Couples in love. At least couples where the guy is hot and knows how to handle a chick.
I, Vincent Gallo, star of such classics as Buffalo 66 and The Brown Bunny have decided to make myself available to all women. All women who can afford me, that is. For the modest fee of $50,000 plus expenses, I can fulfill the wish, dream, or fantasy of any naturally born female. The fee covers one evening with Vincent Gallo. For those who wish to enjoy my company for a weekend, the fee is increased to a mere $100,000. Heavy set, older, red heads and even black chicks can have me if they can pay the bill. No real female will be refused. However, I highly frown upon any male having even the slightest momentary thought or wish that they could ever become my client. No way Jose. However, female couples of the lesbian persuasion can enjoy a Vincent Gallo evening together for $100,000. $200,000 buys the lesbos a weekend. A weekend that will have them second-guessing.
I am willing to travel worldwide to accommodate clients. However, travel days are billed at $50,000 per plus all premium flight fees. Scanning for STD's is required as is bathing and grooming prior to our encounter. Detailed photos of potential clients also required prior. An extra fee for security to protect me is charged on top of the fantasy fee. Security fees will vary depending on the details of an encounter and how much security I will need.
Potential clients are advised to screen the controversial scene from The Brown Bunny to be sure for themselves that they can fully accommodate all of me. Clients who have doubt may want to test themselves with an unusually thick and large prosthetic prior to meeting me. You may be surprised just how much you can handle and how good it feels.
This service is available, but is only payable by cash, checks, and/or bank wire. No credit card payments accepted for this item.
"Wish, dream or fantasy with Vincent Gallo, ladies only"Vincent Gallo evenings, weekends escort - $50,000.00
Have you ever watched a movie and fallen in love with one of the actors? The way they looked or a character they played? Afterwards you thought of them over and over. Daydreaming, imagining things, sexy things. When I was very young I was madly in love with Tuesday Weld and Charlotte Rampling. On my 14th birthday I went to see the film Rolling Thunder and had my biggest crush of all on the actress Linda Haynes. I wished and wished and wished everyday that I could meet all these girls. I thought of a lot of sexy things with Susan Blakely after seeing her in Lords of Flatbush. In my mind I could do with her anything I wanted to do. So believe me, I know and understand what it's like to wish and dream about spending time with a movie star. Doing things that couples do. Couples in love. At least couples where the guy is hot and knows how to handle a chick.
I, Vincent Gallo, star of such classics as Buffalo 66 and The Brown Bunny have decided to make myself available to all women. All women who can afford me, that is. For the modest fee of $50,000 plus expenses, I can fulfill the wish, dream, or fantasy of any naturally born female. The fee covers one evening with Vincent Gallo. For those who wish to enjoy my company for a weekend, the fee is increased to a mere $100,000. Heavy set, older, red heads and even black chicks can have me if they can pay the bill. No real female will be refused. However, I highly frown upon any male having even the slightest momentary thought or wish that they could ever become my client. No way Jose. However, female couples of the lesbian persuasion can enjoy a Vincent Gallo evening together for $100,000. $200,000 buys the lesbos a weekend. A weekend that will have them second-guessing.
I am willing to travel worldwide to accommodate clients. However, travel days are billed at $50,000 per plus all premium flight fees. Scanning for STD's is required as is bathing and grooming prior to our encounter. Detailed photos of potential clients also required prior. An extra fee for security to protect me is charged on top of the fantasy fee. Security fees will vary depending on the details of an encounter and how much security I will need.
Potential clients are advised to screen the controversial scene from The Brown Bunny to be sure for themselves that they can fully accommodate all of me. Clients who have doubt may want to test themselves with an unusually thick and large prosthetic prior to meeting me. You may be surprised just how much you can handle and how good it feels.
This service is available, but is only payable by cash, checks, and/or bank wire. No credit card payments accepted for this item.
And if that's not enough Gallo, try this on:
Vincent Gallo's Sperm - $1,000,000.00
Price includes all costs related to one attempt at an in-vitro fertilization. (A $50,000 value) If the first attempt at in vitro fertilization is unsuccessful, purchaser of sperm must pay all medical costs related to additional attempts. Mr. Gallo will supply sperm for as many attempts as it takes to complete a successful fertilization and successful delivery. Sperm is 100% guaranteed to be donated by Mr. Gallo who is drug, alcohol and disease free. If the purchaser of the sperm chooses the option of natural insemination, there is an additional charge of $500,000. However, if after being presented detailed photographs of the purchaser, Mr. Gallo may be willing to waive the natural insemination fee and charge only for the sperm itself.
Those of you who have found this merchandise page are very well aware of Mr. Gallo's multiple talents, but to add further insight into the value of Mr. Gallo's sperm, aside from being multi talented in all creative fields, he was also multi talented as an athlete, winning several awards for performing in the games of baseball, football and hockey and making it to the professional level of grand prix motorcycle racing. Mr. Gallo is 5'11" and has blue eyes. There are no known genetic deformities in his ancestry (no cripples) and no history of congenital diseases. If you have seen The Brown Bunny, you know the potential size of the genitals if it's a boy. (8 inches if he's like his father.) I don't know exactly how a well hung father can enhance the physical makeup of a female baby, but it can't hurt. Mr. Gallo also presently maintains a distinctively full head of hair and at the age of 43 has surprisingly few gray hairs. Though his features are sharp and extreme, they would probably blend well with a softer, more subtly featured female. Mr. Gallo maintains the right to refuse sale of his sperm to those of extremely dark complexions. Though a fan of Franco Harris, Derek Jeter, Lenny Kravitz and Lena Horne, Mr. Gallo does not want to be part of that type of integration.
In fact, for the next 30 days, he is offering a $50,000 discount to any potential female purchaser who can prove she has naturally blonde hair and blue eyes. Anyone who can prove a direct family link to any of the German soldiers of the mid-century will also receive this discount. Under the laws of the Jewish faith, a Jewish mother would qualify a baby to be deemed a member of the Jewish religion. This would be added incentive for Mr. Gallo to sell his sperm to a Jew mother, his reasoning being with the slim chance that his child moved into the profession of motion picture acting or became a musical performer, this connection to the Jewish faith would guarantee his offspring a better chance at good reviews and maybe even a prize at the Sundance Film Festival or an Oscar. To be clear, the purchase of Mr. Gallo's sperm does not include the use of the name Gallo. The purchaser must find another surname for the child.
This service is available, but is only payable by cash, checks, and/or bank wire. No credit card payments accepted for this item.
I guess we know the roles he's willing to play in 2011.
Let's Switch Back To Bullets
The sole U.S. manufacturer of a key lethal injection drug it is ending production because of death-penalty opposition overseas. Rather than delay executions across the country, can't we use some other methods?
Hospira Inc. said it decided in recent months to switch manufacturing sodium thiopental from its North Carolina plant to a more modern factory in Liscate, Italy, but Italian authorities demanded a guarantee the drug would not be used to put inmates to death — an assurance the company said it was not willing to give.
Hospira Inc. said it decided in recent months to switch manufacturing sodium thiopental from its North Carolina plant to a more modern factory in Liscate, Italy, but Italian authorities demanded a guarantee the drug would not be used to put inmates to death — an assurance the company said it was not willing to give.
All but one of the 35 states that employ lethal injection use sodium thiopental, used as part of a three-drug combination that sedates and paralyzes the inmate and stops the heart. There are other, similar sedatives on the market, but to substitute one drug for another would require new laws or lengthy administrative processes in some states, and could also lead to lawsuits from death row. And because of what Hospira described as problems with its raw-material suppliers, sodium thiopental is already scarce in the U.S., and any batches Hospira made before it suspended manufacturing more than a year ago are set to expire this year.
Hospira has long deplored the drug's use in executions but said it regretted having to stop production, because sodium thiopental has legitimate medical purposes as an anesthetic used in hospitals (and is also highly profitable). Hospira continues to make two other drugs used in executions — pancuronium bromide, which paralyzes, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. Without providing details, the company's state-of-the-art Italian factory was the only plant capable of manufacturing sodium thiopental.
Italy does not have capital punishment and opposes the death penalty, and passed a measure in Parliment last month requiring Hospira to ensure that the drug would be used only for medical purposes and would not find its way into prisons. The current shortage of the drug has delayed or disrupted executions in Arizona, California, Kentucky, Ohio and Oklahoma. Sodium Thiopental made in Britain was used in Arizona, Arkansas, California and Tennessee, but was banned its export for use in executions last November.
Sure the electric chair and firing squads are messy, but if the international community is going to limit our humane drug executions, maybe we need to switch over to help them change their minds.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Disc Masters
An international group of scientists based in Germany have been focused on what happens when a laser "reads" a metal alloy disc for several years. Using one of the world's biggest supercomputers to simulate what happens nanosecond by nanosecond, their recent experiments focused on one of the most popular alloys, used to make DVDs. This alloy, AIST (which contains small amounts of silver, indium, antimony, and tellurium), gives your DVDs that pretty shine, but also have some special properties.
AIST alloys begin as what physicists call "amorphous," or "disorganized," meaning that their structure is very haphazard, but when you zap them with a laser, AIST molecules align into a perfect, crystalline lattice. The key to the process is antimony, which can switch its molecular bonds around quickly, despite having no extra space to move. AIST moves between two solid states: when you burn a DVD, you're turning its surface from an amorphous solid into a crystalline solid. Basically, your DVD is frozen into a crystalline order with the heat of a laser!
Armed with this understanding of DVDs, researchers say their work (which is also applicable to the alloys used in Blu-Rays), will help pioneer better forms of optical storage, with longer life, larger storage capacities, and shorter access times. Sounds good, but why were CDs originally 74 minutes long? That's another thing entirely...
Blazing Solos
Guitar Hero may not be as popular as it once was, but if every note was say, a giant plume of fire? That would make you wanna play, right?
Chris Marion connected his Guitar Hero guitar to a microcontroller, which powers relays that activate solenoid valves on five "fire poofers". If the Crüe is not your flavor, there's also some AC/DC...
Chris Marion connected his Guitar Hero guitar to a microcontroller, which powers relays that activate solenoid valves on five "fire poofers". If the Crüe is not your flavor, there's also some AC/DC...
"This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song"
And to think that System Of A Down figured it out first...
That song title juxtaposes the order, but not necessarily the feeling. And now scientists McGill University in Montreal are coming to that conclusion. Published in Nature Neuroscience, their study claims that hearing good music (or even eating good food) can trigger feelings of euphoria that your brain soon grows attached to. Oh, sweet dopamine! The folks in lab coats say:
That song title juxtaposes the order, but not necessarily the feeling. And now scientists McGill University in Montreal are coming to that conclusion. Published in Nature Neuroscience, their study claims that hearing good music (or even eating good food) can trigger feelings of euphoria that your brain soon grows attached to. Oh, sweet dopamine! The folks in lab coats say:
"If music-induced emotional states can lead to dopamine release, as our findings indicate, it may begin to explain why musical experiences are so valued. These results further speak to why music can be effectively used in rituals, marketing or film to manipulate hedonistic states. Our findings provide neurochemical evidence that intense emotional responses to music involve ancient reward circuitry and serve as a starting point for more detailed investigations of the biological substrates that underlie abstract forms of pleasure."
Does that also explain why I have a bad trip when shitty music from Train plays? Not entirely. Participants had to choose instrumental pieces of music that "gave them goosebumps", and that had no specific memories attached to them. Lyrics were banned because the researchers did not want their results effected any associations to the words they heard. The pieces chosen ranged from classical to rock, punk and electronic dance music.
So what can you take away from this? You're probably going to get high if you listen to MAGNA.
So what can you take away from this? You're probably going to get high if you listen to MAGNA.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Scarcart Weekend
I'm looking forward to celebrating this weekend, because MAGNA is not only planning to wrap up recording their upcoming album, but Scartoe is having a birthday. The challenge: indoor cart racing! I went to a track years ago for part of Mush's bachelor party, and it was a lot of fun, but harder than you would think - those electric bastards zip around!
Best picture of the week:
Best picture of the week:
Best bonus links:
• Watch A Hockey Puck Split In Half On Shot Off The Post - The only time you ever want to see some rubber break.
• San Gabriel Valley Sex Offender Allegedly Killed By Cellmate - I am allegedly thrilled by this homegrown justice.
• Cop Tasering A Camel - Sadly, no video to go along with it...but you know you'll read the story.
• 25 Arrested, 17 Hospitalized During Rave - In other news, 42 people had an awesome time at a rave.
• Mila Kunis Splits From Macaulay Culkin After Eight Years - Oh, you dirty black swan, you!
• Curses! Romania's Witches Forced To Pay Income Tax - Try giving the government eye of newt instead of a check, will ya?
• Year Of The Meme - Some of the best of the last year. We're waiting for our 2011 shipment to arrive now...
• A Corpse's Flesh Has Transformed Into Soap - But not the potpouri smelling kind.
• Body Of US Military Expert Found In Delaware Landfill - If only he'd turned into soap. It goes to show that military men can't adjust to civilian life...expert? Hrumph!
• Bill Murray's Karaoke Night With Total Strangers - He did not sing "Bar Wars", contrary to reports.
• Florida Man Says He'll Live In Lions' Den For 30 Days - I say he'll live there for just one night. and be dinner for the next three.
• Dead Suspect In Ohio Trailer Park Shootout Is ID'd - Was his name Hillbilly McWhitetrash?
• Passengers Overpower Hijacker On Norway-Turkey Flight - Normally it's just their odor that overpowers you.
• James Franco Refers To Himself In The Third Person Now - WWJFD, right? Literally.
• Escorts Begin On Interstate 5; Snow Level Could Drop To 1,000 Feet - I don't know what snow has to do with it, but roadside hookers? Yay!
Worst picture of the week:
• Watch A Hockey Puck Split In Half On Shot Off The Post - The only time you ever want to see some rubber break.
• San Gabriel Valley Sex Offender Allegedly Killed By Cellmate - I am allegedly thrilled by this homegrown justice.
• Cop Tasering A Camel - Sadly, no video to go along with it...but you know you'll read the story.
• 25 Arrested, 17 Hospitalized During Rave - In other news, 42 people had an awesome time at a rave.
• Mila Kunis Splits From Macaulay Culkin After Eight Years - Oh, you dirty black swan, you!
• Curses! Romania's Witches Forced To Pay Income Tax - Try giving the government eye of newt instead of a check, will ya?
• Year Of The Meme - Some of the best of the last year. We're waiting for our 2011 shipment to arrive now...
• A Corpse's Flesh Has Transformed Into Soap - But not the potpouri smelling kind.
• Body Of US Military Expert Found In Delaware Landfill - If only he'd turned into soap. It goes to show that military men can't adjust to civilian life...expert? Hrumph!
• Bill Murray's Karaoke Night With Total Strangers - He did not sing "Bar Wars", contrary to reports.
• Florida Man Says He'll Live In Lions' Den For 30 Days - I say he'll live there for just one night. and be dinner for the next three.
• Dead Suspect In Ohio Trailer Park Shootout Is ID'd - Was his name Hillbilly McWhitetrash?
• Passengers Overpower Hijacker On Norway-Turkey Flight - Normally it's just their odor that overpowers you.
• James Franco Refers To Himself In The Third Person Now - WWJFD, right? Literally.
• Escorts Begin On Interstate 5; Snow Level Could Drop To 1,000 Feet - I don't know what snow has to do with it, but roadside hookers? Yay!
Worst picture of the week:
Stephanie Seymour giving her son the king of all Oedipal complexes
Worst bonus links:
• Coffee Spill Causes Diversion For US Flight - They redirected towards scalding crotch on route to difficulty sitting.
• Injured Spider-Man Actor Cannot Wait To Fly Again - Perhaps he should get to walking first.
• Two Girls Race To Top Of US-Mexico Fence In 15 Seconds - Good news if they're heading over to the southern side...
• Video Shows Men Sexually Assaulting Disabled Women / Reputed Hawaiian Gardens Gang Member Sought After Girlfriend Set On Fire - Or as I call it, local news from yesterday.
• Camille Grammer: 'The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills' Makes Me 'Cringe' - You and everybody else...and we're not even on the show.
• Buried Screenwriter Breaks Academy Awards Promoting His Film - As if that crappy film had any shot of an Oscar if he didn't.
• Chemical Signal In Women's Tears A Turnoff For Men - The signal? Tears.
• Virginia DMV Revokes World's Greatest License Plate - If you're not going to eat the children, then why have them?
• New York City Ballet Master Arrested On DWI - More like "drunk swan", right?
• Rutgers Eric LeGrand Has Sensation Throughout Body - Big deal, so do I. Oh, he was paralized? Oops...
• Gabrielle Carteris Is 50 Years Old - I told you those "kids" from 90210 looked too old to be in high school!
• Carlos Santana Weds In Hawaii - Much like his recent music, it was bland and uninteresting.
• This Underwear Comes With A Penis In It - Believe it or not, that's not the worst link of the bunch.
• Cockroach Found In A Woman's Colonoscopy - This one is.
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