Monthly Archives December 2006

Artful penis.

You know, there really doesnt tend to be a whole lot of serious treatment of the penis in the art world, and that’s kind of rude. Chicks get all the attention.
Now, personally, I dont think a penis is all that interesting to look at, really. Fun to play with? Absolutely. [...]

Argh!

Stupid people abound.
Sometimes I despair of ever again being able to just be in the world. People are so incredibly, noxiously, belligerently ignorant and proud of it that I find myself wanting to brick total strangers in the face just because the likelihood that they are really, really, insufferably stupid is immense [...]

Mr. James Brown – 1933 – 2006

Ladies and gentlemen, Soul Brother Number One has left the building.
Thanks for one hell of a ride, Mr. Brown. There are no words to express how deeply you will be missed, how indelibly your impression has sunk into the world of music.
It has, at least from a musical standpoint, been an honour, sir.
James [...]

So long, and thanks for nothing.

This is almost unbearably sad.
Although the Chinese river dolphin is 20 million years old, we only discovered their existence 80 years ago. They were immediately labeled the most endangered dolphin in the world. From that time till now, all we have done is argue and bicker about how best to save [...]

Ginger Norris 2005 – 2006

Ginger Rat died tonight, about two hours ago. Only 15 months old, he developed a pituitary tumour, a very odd ailment for a very young male rat to encounter. Pituitary tumours are fatal 100% of the time.
He began showing symptoms two months ago, and the only thing I could do was keep him [...]

:D

“Probably unfortunate.”

SANTIAGO, Chile: It had been 18 months since Gen. Augusto Pinochet reluctantly stepped down from the presidency and Chileans were just beginning to unearth brutal secrets of his 1973-90 dictatorship.
In a bleak corner of Santiago’s sprawling General Cemetery known as Patio 29, workers were digging up the unmarked graves of more than 100 people who [...]