News that's shaping our world

This one wins because it's got all the words crucial for a smashing headline: "dog heads, decapitated, moat". (Kyodo News via Yahoo!Asia)

Christmas Miracle: Turtle Gets Braces

Diapers Clogging Sewer Lines in Iowa

Anger Strategies, Focus on the Family, and Bareback Mountain

Here we go.
Reviewers Call 'Brokeback Mountain' Twisted

by Pete Winn, associate editor

Gay love story carries a high "ick" factor.

I'm not going to link to the site because I deem it 'unacceptable' but go ctrl+C, ctrl+V it into your address bar.
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0038874.cfm

It's never pretty when an adult male freaks out over losing something

Trust me I know.

Especially when the object that has been misplaced is one's over-the-ear sports earphones and one has already stretched out and is ready to run along the beach.
And it get's even uglier when one's roommate finds them exactly where they were left by the freaking out adult male.

I'll workshop that while I'm running.
When I return, I'll be blissed out and sorted.

I promise.

Faulty Logic, Irresponsible Reporting, and the Dumb Ass Govenator

Note to the writer who wrote the caption to this photo: protesting the murder of an individual at the hands of the state does not de facto mean support of the individual on Death Row. It may be a gesture of protest against the Death Penalty. This seems to be a variant of the appeal to motive fallacy and is irresponsible on the front page of a major (albeit shitty) newspaper.

Some people just think that regardless of who may be electrocuted, injected, shot, hung, stoned, starved, etc. by the government - it's plain wrong to kill people even if it's intention is to teach citizens a lesson about crime and punishment.

Damn, someone found out about this

So now I am forced to update it, keep it sharp, and produce compelling entries.

Thanks, doc.

December is here

and with it a renewed sense of purpose.
After another slip off the non-smoking wagon and the subsequent re-detox - which is marked by binge eating, rage blackouts, and general snippiness - i'm back to clean living for good this time. No more cheating. It's lame.

Now when I find myself nurturing that deep-seated urge to smoke a butt, I visualize mouth cancer. Something along these lines but much worse:

Harsh I know, but it should help.

Everyone out of the pool

This news story is somewhat disturbing. They've caught some little 'male' fish who display signs of intersex..That means they had girl parts in their boy parts. This is suspected to be due to pollutants from plants and treatment facilities contaminating the water.

I'm glad I find the Pacific Ocean too cold to swim in. I like my testes just the way they are, thanks.
No ovarian tissue for me!

Everything you ever wanted to know about Barebacking but were afraid to ask

via Queerty -

Not sure how I feel about this site [probably NSFW now that I think about it. Unless you are a hustler.] "Sero-Sorting instead of condoms"? That's a pretty hot potato now, innit? Regardless, this weird public-health information site enlightened me to things I've never known. Like how to shave one's junk properly or the benefits of [anal] douching before a date. My friend DRMack'n will love it. She's soooo into barebacking these days. From a research standpoint, that is.

Haha.

Shirtless Guy

I don't know which is funnier - the article itself, or the fact that it's #2 in the LA Times "most emailed today" sidebar...

Anyway, this smells like a fake (viral) or something along the lines of BlackpeopleLoveUs.com, but if it's true it's funny.

This weird dude just walks around college shirtless and he's got a support group/fan club and all. My favorite quote - and the one that makes me believe this is bogus - is

"I think if it weren't for the Shirtless Guy," Kohelet
confessed, "I never would have had the courage to
unbutton the second to the top button on my shirt
and walk around showing a little chest hair."

You go, Shirtless Guy.

Bizarro World

Remember Bizarro, the anti-Superman from the Legion of Doom? He was basically the antipode of Superman, Truth, all that we know as sound and just.

So last evening in another installment of "Trying to Lead a (somewhat) Clean Life", I stayed in last night, split *1* bottle of wine and watched 'The Aviator' starring the recently-excised-from-Gisele-Bündchen, Leonardo DiCaprio.

About 20 minutes into the feature I became distressed and vocal about it. Something wasn't right, yet I couldn't quite pinpoint what off. Then in a flash it became clear: the editing was atrocious. I thought to myself, "perhaps the director had a friend or a cousin who needed some work and had a crack of Final Cut Pro on their machine or something" 'cause the editing SUCKED. Then my viewing partner reminds me that this is a Scorcese film. "No fucking way" I think to myself as I watch continuity flaws occur in almost every cut of the scene we're watching. [Note: I'm referrring the sundae eating antics of the 15 year old girl Howard Hughes takes out on the town. For starters.]

The film has it merits and I did learn a bit about H.Hughes, aviation of the time, etc. but the next morning the shittiness of the editing is still bugging me. So I google "Aviator bad editing" and the returns bring me to learn that the Aviator won the Academy Award® FOR BEST EDITING in the 77th Annual Academy Awards®. At that moment, everything I knew to be true and right was wrong.

Bizarro I tell you.

Betty & Veronica go goth

This is a nice time waster. The guy's blog seems an interesting mix of personal and professional I might add. Those canadians...

We cheered me up

My recent bout o' the blues was assuaged somewhat this evening by that unlikely pick-me-up: the We channel. That's 'We' as in Women's Entertainment but whatever...

So right there in the middle of my 'i'm totally lost in my pre-middle age, what the hell am i going to do' subroutine when Jake Ryan pops up on my desktop. Such a well complected young guy, ain't he?

Madonna Offers Nothing Innovative - Still Huge Media Construct

"Hung Up" is boring. So are her suspiciously timed snatches at headlines.
I wish she would prove her relevancy.
The photo sightings outside the Roxy are a nice juicy touch though.

[Music] Free, fresh, fat beats

Shut up.
I'm finally getting back to music and no matter how you slice it, i'm still a fan of the trancier/ progressive/non-vocal/electronic sort. Is that too particular and/or retro? Tough.

XTC Radio streams great high-quality trance/prog house.

In iTunes it's Radio->Electronic->towards bottom of list of streams.
It's also available on the web.

I like it.

Oh. My. God.

Pizazz, huh?

I'm going to get a drink and ponder what I've just seen.

I want this

Schwinn Sting-Ray Classic Series in coppertone.

Patches

Wow...These little patches sure pack a nice little buzz in them.
I'm sporting the Step 3 model right now, slapped carefully over my right shoulder.
After about 10 minutes, it begins to burn slightly, then itch worse. Some moments after that, a general foggy-headed type of euphoria kicks in. It's all very dramatic.

Intesting phenomenon, this addiction thing. I went for 2 days with no nicotine substitution, then today felt weak with heavy craving, so I went back to the box of patches. I think I shall use the entire course of them, regardless of whether or not I feel that I 'need' them, as I am hellbent on interrupting this cycle once and for all.

Wish me luck and thank the powers that be that I'm isolated during this.
Well, I have a comrade who's detoxing similarly -- but I'll leave that for another entry.

How Curious George Escaped the Nazis & Other Fun Things

From the NYT - "Curious George is every 2-year-old sticking his finger into the light socket, pouring milk onto the floor to watch it pool, creating chaos everywhere. One reason the mischievous monkey is such a popular children's book character is that he makes 4- to 6-year-olds feel superior: fond memories, but we've given all that up now." This article is both informative and uplifting. And who doesn't dig that wild little guy?

From Internet Radio: XTC Radio James Lauer XTCRadio Session July 13th 2005 Encore
Check out this nice little chop up at the beginning of the clip (18 Mbs) of Bette Davis Eyes that played on XTC Radio (hit it via their website or iTunes -> Radio -> Electronic -> XTC Radio 160 kbps). It's on here pretty much all afternoon thru the cocktail hours.

Washed Up

I still have yet to wrap my head around the fact that the figure to the left is the President of the United States...I'm mortified. Literally.

And while we're on it, Paris Hilton had a quickly aborted attempt at a music career now didn't she? Yes, I believe she did and her first only single was so aptly titled, "Screwed". Marketing genuis - the song sucks as hard as she does. Literally.

Oh Snap! I didn't.

Yes I did.


Well, if you want to amuse or divert your self from the truths given above, make your name in Coldplay X&Y code here.

Any movie that can mix Lamb's "Gorecki" into the sung dialogue and reference Anthony Michael Hall's rev-up in 16 Candles gets a nod of the hat. In the second evening of I'm Becoming A Huge Fag, I watched Moulin Rouge with my boy. Understand, this comes on the heels (pun intended) of lip-synching Mommie Dearest last night. (Both of which were available freely & easily via satelite, mind you). Television is getting really, really gay. So am I it seems. Gross.

To encapsulate: Moulin Rouge as a movie and audio mixing endeavor rocks.
I began crushing on Nicole Kidman whilst viewing this. She's architecturally gifted and seems like a nice girl who's just trying to get by. Watching her comic jumpings about to the tune of the Can-can is quite a sight to see. Check it, I rec it.

Oh shit, Truth or Dare is on now.. I picked a great week to quit smoking. For realz.