Rain, rain, go away

MOSCOW 5/28/09 - When a Russian woman was rebuffed in her marriage proposal, she then got her boyfriend drunk at their breakup dinner and proceeded to detonate fireworks on his penis. She now faces 12 years imprisonment. {metro}

LONG ISLAND 6/4/09 - A deli owner who made headlines when he showed mercy to a would be robber by brandishing his rifle and then giving the failed-con a loaf of bread and $40, was busted only 2 weeks later for selling weed pipes in his store. So much for compassionate care. {daily news}

MATTER 6/11/09 - For all you chem-heads, a new element has been introduced to the Periodic Table and it is the heaviest element on the table. To date scientist are still looking for a new name. {sari}

VRIGINIA 6/12/09 - To curb sexual activity, Virginia's largest women's prison has decided to segregate lesbian-LOOKING inmates from the rest of the population. {conan}

EARTH 6/14/09 - A 14 year old boy somehow survived a 30,000 mph pea-sized meteorite crashing into his hand. This is only the 2nd documented case of a non-fatal meteorite impact. {telegraph}

BRITAIN 6/29/09 - BBC News Magazine had a 13 year old trade in his ipod for a walkman and document his thoughts. Pretty funny stuff that makes me feel old as I rocked a walkman when I first moved to nyc.

A recent study states that 50% of women have used a vibrator and more than 45% of men have incorporated them into their sex lives. Granted the study was done by Trojan Condoms, but here's to vibrating pleasure!

Retro Futuro

~side note: i joined lunch chorus in high school due to the request a cute girl.



~ My stomach has been turning over the mere premise of this procedure for years.

~Finally ultimate frisbee gets some press...tho in the "style" section of the NYTimes.

~If this is real, then god bless women with brains.

~I've been thinking about checking out some NYU Continuing Education classes, but even for a school that financially forced it's faux-ivy status 15 years ago, this shit is shameful.

~From our SF correspondent, word of a competition I can really get into. Though it already came earlier this month, there's always next year all you lonely souls.

~From the dangerous Pennsylvania back country, I am reminded why I hate drinking games as word reached all the up to the great white north that a man was killed over beer pong.

~Just to remind you sun worshippers how great having seasons is, check out yet another diamond from our SF correspondent.

April Showers

- The Washington Post reported that Obama recently met with the [Grateful] Dead. "After admiring the Scarlet Begonias, the band went next door to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to meet with the most prominent Deadheads in the Obama White House: senior advisors David Axelrod and Pete Rouse, and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina. All three are planning to go to tonight's one and only Dead show in Washington..." {g.kral}

-Apparently there's this electric cigarette that vaporizes nicotine, thus eliminating the most harmul part: smoke. Check it out HERE. {jc}

-Gothamist recently made me aware of this sad craze of "Pumping Parties" where people who can't afford legitimate silicone implants, take a DIY approach and inject themselves with "industrial-grade silicone, available at most hardware stores.... but one E.R. doctor says substitutes like castor oil, mineral oil, petroleum jelly and even automobile transmission fluid have been used."

-Happy Holidaze for all my heads!

Ides of March....plus 4

In 2007 lovers in the US broke the previous baby boomer record from 1957 by giving birth to the most babies in our nation's history with 4,317,119 bundles of joy.

Also, the Obama administration pledged to stop raiding state mandated marijuana dispensaries, while focusing on busting those who use state laws to only appear legal.

OBEY vs A.P.

From the Christian Science Monitor: The Associated Press is looking for compensation for Shepard Fairey's insanely popular "Hope" Obama campaign image. The image was originally taken by an AP photographer when Obama was listening to Kansas' Republican Senator Sam Brownback speak. Fairey is claiming Fair Use laws....... P.S. Nice percolating ROOR bong Mr. Phelps.

Skullfuckers

Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong.

The Harris County District Attorney's Office confirmed on Thursday that misdemeanor abuse of corpse charges have been filed in the case.

Police in Houston believe the teens disturbed the grave of an 11-year-old boy who died in 1921.

Officers were interviewing one of the teens about a stolen debit card when he allegedly blurted out the story.

Funny thing is that this happened before in Vermont. Read more.....

{caleb}

History 297D

I was just up in Northampton, MA a few weeks ago to see my friend's band, NBFB, open for one of the few bands that get me dancing, the New Deal. It was funny to be the older kids at the show as I honestly felt taller than everyone else. It's not that I was better than the young-uns, it was just that I felt old.

In related news UMASS just announced they have a class on the Greatful Dead: History 297D -How Does the Song Go? The Grateful Dead as a Window into American Culture. Good ol ZooMass, keeping the dream alive. I can't wait till there's a college class on my exploits: Theology 36C- Do You Know Who I Used To Be?


{bernard}

Mr Potato Head on a Irish Roll

10.5 oz of Ecstacy found by Autralian customs agents coming in from Ireland.

Read more.....



-{Jesse}

Morse v. Frederick, was a First Amendment student free speech case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a school principal may, consistent with the First Amendment, restrict student speech at a school event when that speech is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use.

In 2002, 18-year-old Joseph Frederick was suspended from the high school where he was a senior after he displayed a banner reading "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" across the street from the school in Juneau, Alaska, during the Winter Olympics torch relay.

In Case of Apocalypse Later, a Plan to Ensure America’s Regreening

The seed vault at the Greenbelt Native Plant Center on Staten Island, where Timothy Chambers oversees thousands of plants.

This is run by the Millennium Seed Bank Project.