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2.18.2009
hoppipolla
i've been watching a lot of planet earth recently - the david attenborough version, natch; sigourney weaver is ok at best. the ads for planet earth featured this beautiful song by sigur ros - check out the old folks on a rampage. amazing.
2.17.2009
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2.10.2009
arctic unicorns!
way to go bbc. thanks for my news stories this morning!
check out this video of narwhal. i love david attenborough.
also, here is a video about a john cage composition that is 639 years long. they just changed the chord!
check out this video of narwhal. i love david attenborough.
also, here is a video about a john cage composition that is 639 years long. they just changed the chord!
2.09.2009
song of the day (friday)
i was super busy on friday and meant to find this... i was recovering from my five minute stint as bruce springsteen at karaoke. not as bad as recovering from the party this weekend!
2.05.2009
song of the day
the new tv on the radio is awesome! of course it is.
check out this video to see instruments delivered from heaven.
check out this video to see instruments delivered from heaven.
driving test
i failed my permit test. my permit expired after i left the country. you guys, the california written test is hard!
but i only failed it once.
L-test hell for S Korean driver
but i only failed it once.
L-test hell for S Korean driver
A South Korean grandmother has failed her written driving test 771 times.
Police in the city of Jeonju said the 68-year-old woman has taken, and failed, the written test repeatedly since April 2005.
She failed the exam once again on Monday but has said that she will continue trying.
The woman, identified only by her family name Cha, has repeatedly scored between 30 and 50 marks, below the pass mark of 60 out of 100.
The Korea Times reports that Mrs Cha sells food and household items door to door at apartment complexes.
She currently carries the items in a handcart, but thought that she might need a car for her business.
Police estimate she has spent more than four million won (£2,000) to take the written test, with each test costing 6,000 won, in addition to other expenses.
"I feel sorry every time I see Cha fail. When she passes, I'll make a commemorative tablet myself and give it to her," says Park Jung-seok, a traffic police officer.
Mrs Cha has said that she will be back for another attempt. If she passes, then she can begin the practical test.
2.04.2009
one last disturbing thought before bed.
did you hear about these breasts? this woman has had EIGHT surgeries to increase her bust to a mind-boggling 34 FFF.
but wait. that's still not enough.
now she's gone to brazil because the state of texas REFUSED to put any more silicone in her boobs... she already has a GALLON in there. so disgusting.
here are her new, world-record setting 38 KKK size breasts. and with them, i have to assume, new, world-record setting back pain.
ew.
but wait. that's still not enough.
now she's gone to brazil because the state of texas REFUSED to put any more silicone in her boobs... she already has a GALLON in there. so disgusting.
here are her new, world-record setting 38 KKK size breasts. and with them, i have to assume, new, world-record setting back pain.
ew.
song of the day
how amazing is this video? pat benatar was pregnant during filming - check out how they only show her face. well, they do show her whole body... but through a waterfall.
2.03.2009
on the subject of michael phelps
dude, a 23 year old has to apologize for taking a hit from a bong?
have you seen what he eats?
how do you think he keeps his appetite up?
have you seen what he eats?
how do you think he keeps his appetite up?
2.02.2009
pillow fight
i just got a whole batch of new music to catch up with the times. david byrne and brian eno's new collaboration, fleet foxes, the new andrew bird album.
but i am like teenage-obsession obsessed with this song by band of horses.
but i am like teenage-obsession obsessed with this song by band of horses.
1.30.2009
song of the day
is not actually a song... but it's an audio file. close enough, i say?
this is old but it's still awesome!
a cop stole pot from a suspect, made brownies with his wife, and then thought he was dying!
you can listen to his 911 call here.
"what's the score on the red wings game? i just want to make sure this isn't an hallucination."
this is old but it's still awesome!
a cop stole pot from a suspect, made brownies with his wife, and then thought he was dying!
you can listen to his 911 call here.
"what's the score on the red wings game? i just want to make sure this isn't an hallucination."
1.29.2009
song of the day proves controversial.
i'm not sure i should stick with this... i pissed off steve by stealing his idea (i would guess not really too badly though) and then i really pissed off mike doughty (see comments) ... or someone pretending to be mike doughty.
it would be kind of weird, right? if mike doughty took my blog post personally? i just thought the last couple albums have been a little overproduced. "ghastly" was harsh.
i love mike doughty. i can even recite a fair number of doughty's songs from start to finish. oh doughty. please forgive me. remember the show at the charles river bandshell? maybe 1998? you signed my friend's dugout. you wrote that you did not condone. that was awesome.
it would be kind of weird, right? if mike doughty took my blog post personally? i just thought the last couple albums have been a little overproduced. "ghastly" was harsh.
i love mike doughty. i can even recite a fair number of doughty's songs from start to finish. oh doughty. please forgive me. remember the show at the charles river bandshell? maybe 1998? you signed my friend's dugout. you wrote that you did not condone. that was awesome.
song of the day
i haven't had a very easy time recently coming up with funny things to say. see below, 'cello scrotum.'
so i have decided to sort of steal from my friend steve. hey, i bet you're thinking, steve is a pretty nice guy, why are you stealing from him?
well, steve has this great blog with songs of the week. i am going to go on a voyage on the one ups man ship. i am going to try and post a new song every day! that way i will always have something to say. because you all know that i have a hard time thinking of things to say.
today: snow in new york, and i hear the bells. a rare quality song from mike doughty's ghastly solo albums.
so i have decided to sort of steal from my friend steve. hey, i bet you're thinking, steve is a pretty nice guy, why are you stealing from him?
well, steve has this great blog with songs of the week. i am going to go on a voyage on the one ups man ship. i am going to try and post a new song every day! that way i will always have something to say. because you all know that i have a hard time thinking of things to say.
today: snow in new york, and i hear the bells. a rare quality song from mike doughty's ghastly solo albums.
1.28.2009
cello scrotum.
Peer reveals 'cello scrotum' hoax
A top doctor has admitted her part in hoodwinking a leading medical journal after inventing a medical condition called "cello scrotum".
Elaine Murphy - now Baroness Murphy - dreamt up the painful complaint in the 1970s, sending a report to the British Medical Journal.
She came clean when the hoax resurfaced in the 2008 Christmas edition.
A BMJ spokesman said the inclusion and subsequent debunking of "cello scrotum" had "added to the gaiety of life".
 |  Anyone who has ever watched a cello being played would realise the physical impossibility of our claim  Baroness Murphy |
The spoof was inspired by a similar report of a phenomenon called "guitar nipple", which happened when the edge of the guitar was pressed against the breast, causing irritation.
"We thought it highly likely to be a spoof, and decided to go one further by submitting a similar phenomenon in cellists, " wrote Murphy - and her husband, in the latest edition of the journal.
"Anyone who has ever watched a cello being played would realise the physical impossibility of our claim.
"Somewhat to our astonishment, the letter was published."
Baroness Murphy, formerly a professor at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London, did not sign the 1974 letter herself, fearing that she might get into trouble.
Her husband John, now chairman of a Suffolk brewery, signed it instead.
Scrotal flak
The couple said that they had been "dining out" on the hoax for years, but decided to confess after seeing "cello scrotum" referenced in an article last month in the journal.
A spokesman for the BMJ said that, 34 years on, no-one faced the sack for failing to spot the implausible condition.
He said: "We did, actually, get a letter from another doctor at the time pointing out how unlikely it was.
"We may have to organise a formal retraction or correction now. Once these things get into the scientific literature, they stay there for good. But it all adds to the gaiety of life."
His point was illustrated by a brief search of other medical journals - with "cello scrotum" referenced several times over the years, including by one scholar who debated whether it was in fact an awkward contact with the chair, rather than the instrument itself, that might be the source of irritation.1.27.2009
1.26.2009
Cat fight
I just broke up a fist fight! On a crowded subway!
Two women had bumped into each other trying to get on the F train and one was like uh-unh shorty, back off bitch! And she slapped the other woman and they started slapping each other's faces and wrasslin against a door. A couple people along with me pulled them apart and then I stood like a bodyguard between them, silently with my arms crossed, with a plastic covered library copy of italo calvino short stories in one hand and the other shaking a bit from adrenaline.
They kept yelling at each other until a lady cop further down the train was like, shut the hell up, don't make me call the cops... Which I found confusing.
1.23.2009
adventures in crapstone
to answer your question... yes, i am nine years old.
No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else
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