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Glenn Frey has flown away


Seriously, what the fuck is going on?

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All at once the Colonel shoots upright with a start...frozen motionless finger in the air..."Piss! Piss!" he shouts..."My prostate!...." With his eyes locked in a stare as though he were hearing voices!...Here we go again, another song and dance! Then he pokes around his underpants, sticks his finger in his butt...and dashes off, he's gone!...

-- from London Bridge, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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I...they...what the...


Japan does it again. *headdesk*


P.S. Not porn. Just batshit. (Unless you count buttcheeks.)

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Parents deliberately exposing their children to chicken pox because they refuse to get them vaccinated.


Not only are these loons abusing their kids by exposing them to potentially deadly diseases, they're actually sending the viruses through the mail.

Read that again. SENDING THE VIRUSES THROUGH THE MAIL.

So not only are they trying to infect their children, they're also potentially exposing any postal workers who handle their diseased envelopes, as well as other letters and packages which could infect completely unrelated citizens.

This is a level of insanity that I never thought I'd see in the U.S. This used to be a country that prided itself on the basic education of its citizens. But with the erosion of public trust in science and the destruction of school curricula, we've gotten to the point where actual adults - people entrusted with the LIVES OF CHILDREN - think it's somehow a good idea to send DEADLY DISEASES THROUGH THE MAIL.

This is beyond headdesk crazy. This gets to the level of actually killing yourself through noggin-bashing. We've reached the stage of apocalypse, kids. Soon we'll be barricading ourselves in our houses to avoid the staggering hordes of drooling know-nothings.

I hope if any of you even HEARS of anyone you know getting up to this crazy shit, you will call the authorities IMMEDIATELY. This is utterly and completely illegal. A person will do serious jail time for this, as WELL THEY SHOULD.


I...uh...ARGHGHJRRJG:SD:GJWEJ:SDNGWEU F{IHJPWE{VNEFPJW}{VN
"QWFE"MDSKF ":KLSDF "LKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH KILLKILLKILLSTABBITYSTABBITYSTABSTABSTAB

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So it was all a hoax.

Interesting. I'm still not gonna watch it, though.


ETA: Hm. I wonder if Roger Ebert is feeling a little foolish right about now.

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Magnet Slopes

Koukichi Sugihara of the Meiji Institute in Japan won
the 2010 Vision Sciences Society's Best Illusion of the Year
with this creation, a series of ramps that achieve an impossible effect.


In a packed concert hall, Kokichi Sugihara wields a pickaxe and mimes a blow to the stage. "I am a miner, and I have a secret," Sugihara says, adjusting his hard hat and headlamp. "I have discovered a new super-magnet."

A screen behind Sugihara begins playing a video....

I'm not going to describe what happens next. Watch the video. It will MESS WITH YOUR BRAIN.

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Took my first Vicodin yesterday.

A little background: the doctor I've been seeing for the shoulder impairment prescribed these things last year, and I've had the bottle sitting around since last May. He first prescribed actual Vicodin, but I got a bit pissed and said I didn't want any addictive drugs, thank you. He then turned around and gave me a scrip for hydrocodone, thinking I'd just take it without question. Uh, no. I googled it and found out that it's...Vicodin. The generic name. Fucking hell.

So it's been sitting in my medicine cabinet ever since. But on Monday I somehow managed to yank a muscle in my other shoulder, hard. I mean REALLY hard. Don't know how I did it. I just reached to get a jar off my kitchen cabinet, which isn't even above shoulder height, and RRRRANGGGGG!!! OWGODDAMNNITOWOWOWOWOW!!! You know how that is? FUCK.

So after two days of suffering, I thought FUCK THIS and decided to take one of those yellow Pills From Hell. If it would help the pain go away, I'd risk it. I drank a glass of OJ and took the motherfucker, laid down on my heating pad and waited.

I gotta say, I have NO IDEA why anyone takes this shit other than for real pain. It's DREADFUL. I HATE IT. Yeah, I got high, but it's a woozy, nauseous, dizzy kind of high. I felt like I'd just got off a fucking rollercoaster that really upset my stomach. Disgusting. And you know, it didn't even knock the pain out, just lessened it to where it wasn't making want to punch myself in the head. I couldn't WAIT to come down.

It did seem to help though, as I woke up this morning to very reduced ouchness. It's still sore, but not anywhere near as bad as it has been. I figure by Saturday I should be mostly okay if I don't push it.

But DAMN...I really don't get the illicit use thing. This is the LAST high I'd call fucking fun. Other than Ketamine, that is. Anyone who takes THAT is a goddamn lunatic.

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Gacked from jblaque, he who Brings Teh Good Stuff.

Rabbit - animated short by Run Wrake


A strange surrealist tale about greed. Quite imaginative in a Goreyesque way, with more than a little influence of Magritte and Dali.


Warning: If you're squeamish, you might want to give it a pass, though I find it disturbing more for the aforementioned surrealism than for the two or three dead critters. Oh and there are bugs. Lots of bugs.

Remember though, it's an animation, not live action. The art is of the old-picture-book-clippings sort, kind of like Terry Gilliam's work with Monty Python.

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SNL Christopher Walken

The Census - Christopher Walken, Saturday Night Live


There is no one like Walken for balls-out WEIRD.