Week in Rock

~Gina Carrano VS Cyborg Santos 8/15/09

~Check out my Lollapalooza recap on a local music BLOG.

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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!

In honor of India overturning their gay sex ban:

I give you some funny brown:




HAPPY 4TH! BE SAFE!

Flying Pigs

{lama}

For the ex-Vice President who could call you an unpatriotic piece of terrorist liberal shit without breaking a sweat, Dick Cheney has been on the speaking circuit recently and lo and behold, hell has frozen over:

Cheney essentially admits that our original pretense for the Iraq War was false: "I do not believe and have never seen any evidence to confirm that [Hussein] was involved in 9/11."

Now if that wasn't weird enough, in the SAME speech he actually throws his support to gay marriage:

"I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club. "I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish."

Cheney, whose daughter is gay, thinks it should be a state issue.
(National Post)

Le Flu de Porc

Check out more artsy/designer/gas masks here. {ef}

-I just watched Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66 on VHS and the only thing that kept me watching was Christina Ricci in a tap dancing outfit.
It confirmed why I hated Mr. Belvedere-Vodka-Luxury-Reborn even before I knew who the fuck he was 4 years ago when he auctioned off his semen for $1 million dollars.
Just because you can get Chloë Sevigny to give you a blowjob in your film, doesn't mean it's art.

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!