A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104-year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love. It ain’t for money — the woman is dirt poor. This is her 21st husband. Read the story.
Improv Everywhere Strikes Again
Improv Everywhere is an improvisational group which does, well, I guess you could call it performance art. But rather than "perform" for an "audience" in a "theater", the group performs "missions", or "happenings" (to use the parlance of the 80’s). Past missions include staffing the restroom of Midtown McDonald’s with a bathroom attendant, and performing a synchronized swimming routine in … Read More
The Unitarian Jihad
This is only funny if you are familiar with the Unitarian Church. A San Francisco columnist received an anonymous letter from the Unitarian Jihad: Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one … Read More
Pump Prayers
I don’t know what to make of this: WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) — A U.S. Christian group has grown tired of escalating gasoline prices and is set to stage a national prayer rally to lower the numbers at the pumps. Various Christian clergy from around the country will convene around a Washington, D.C., gas station Thursday at noon to pray. … Read More
“Winnie The Pooh Has A Really Big, Heavy Head”
The following is an interview with Crystal Nettles, who recently left Disneyland after five years working in costume, playing such characters as Pluto and Eeyore: Is there a social hierarchy at the park? Like, the princesses in the parade are cool, and they look down on people in Goofy costumes, or maybe the costume people are cooler? Well, they had … Read More
Hookers and Congress …and Watergate? — That’s So 1970’s!
Billmon: I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the news (from Harper’s via TPM Muckraker) that Porter Goss, director of the CIA, may be implicated in a hooker service for corrupt (and horny) congressmen paid for by defense contractors and run out of — you really gotta love this part — the Watergate Hotel. So what are we supposed … Read More
Happy 80th Birthday, Harper Lee
I’d send you an e-card, Harper, but I don’t know your email address.
Porn Stars To Perform On Legitimate London Stage
You have to hand it to Fox. They’ve taken the "reality show" genre and come up with some pretty unique ideas. Most realities shows suck, but this — well, it could be very amusing: NEW YORK (Reuters) — A new television reality show invites porn stars to test their serious acting abilities in London’s theater district, raising the question: Debbie … Read More
The Elusive O
Some rightwing Christian nuttery is simply too good not to pass on. Via Sadly, No, via TBogg, we’re treated to the musings of a blog called the "Edicts of Nancy", and her unique theories: The Left continues to tout the existence of the elusive female orgasm, despite all biological evidence to the contrary. As I have often said, if The … Read More
Tin Soldiers And Nixon’s Coming
Nearly 25 years after the Kent State massacre, Neil Young still isn’t one to mince words, as he demonstrates in his unsubtly-titled new song: "Impeach The President": Let’s impeach the president for lyingAnd leading our country into warAbusing all the power that we gave himAnd shipping all our money out the door He’s the man who hired all the criminalsThe … Read More
More Kellie
Getting ready for work this morning, I had the local Fox affiliate on in the background. Joining the Fox crew in the studio was voted-off American Idol finalist and North Carolina native Bucky Covington. And shortly before 8:00, live from Hollywood via satellite, they conducted an interview with Kellie Pickler, who had only had one hour of sleep last night … Read More
American Idol Update: Albemarle Calling
Yup. I’m a fan — I think she’s — well — you know. Just sweet and humble and ditzy and real. But in the talent department, she just didn’t have the stuff anymore. For kicks and grins, I went to the Kellie Pickler fan site (the biggest one I believe — there are many) to see the initial reactions. First … Read More
One Billion Words In The English Language
The Associated Press headline proclaims "English Language Hits 1 Billion Words" and the first three paragraphs of the article read: A massive language research database responsible for bringing words such as "podcast" and "celebutante" to the pages of the Oxford dictionaries has officially hit a total of 1 billion words, researchers said Wednesday. Drawing on sources such as weblogs, chatrooms, … Read More
Dracula Sucks
Another Broadway musical about Dracula, the third vampire-based musical attempt in four years, is getting crucified by the critics. This time it is "Lestat" — an Elton John-Bernie Taupin creation — based on the Anne Rice novels. In a review headlined "Vampires, the musical kiss of death," The Washington Post’s Peter Marks said the fixation with singing vampires had to … Read More