shanmonster | Bum Bum Bling Bling and Other Stories

Could it be I'm finally getting better, that the asthma extravaganza of two days ago was just the storm before the calm? Maybe I won't have to go on steroids, after all! I didn't have to huff on my inhaler yesterday, and although I'm still a bit wheezy and snot-filled, I'm not nearly as bad today as I was yesterday or the day before. I think a month of abject mucous seepage is more than enough.

And now for your regularly-scheduled link dump:

Flametal: I can't say I like the music, but mixing flamenco with metal is an interesting concept. Conceptually, it's similar to Metal Goddess's mix of raqs sharqi and headbanging. What next? Heavy metal square dance? That I'd like to see!

Rape Haikus: Definitely a WTF thing for me.

Georgia woman returns from vacation to find stranger living in her house, authorities say: "A woman came home from vacation to find a stranger living there, wearing her clothes, changing utilities into her name and even ripping out carpet and repainting a room she didn't like, authorities said" (thanks, faustian_wish).

Julian Snelling Rosebud Anal Jewelry: Because bungholes want the bling bling, too (NSFW).

Taihen: I found this while researching Butoh. "TAIHEN is a troupe of stage performers organized by producer, director and performers who are all physically disabled. TAIHEN was established in 1983 by Manri Kim based on a belief that 'There is most expressive force possessed within the disabled body itself'. The word 'TAIHEN' is a deformation of the Japanese word HENTAI." Fascinating!

LiveJournal Connect: I've been using this in a strange way, namely, to see how many degrees of separation are between me and such esteemed personages as Aristotle (four), Socrates (five), Asimov (six), and Vlad Tepes (three).

Ads Back Schwarzenegger for President: Blah blah Presinator blah.

Strange Head Man: "Certainly Japanese people eat raw fish. It's called Sushi. Eating raw fish is quite nomal thing in Japan. But nomal Japanese people never breed live goldfish on head. Breeding live goldfish on the head is not so nomal even for Japanese people."

Holy Tango of Poetry: "If poets wrote poems whose titles were anagrams of their names," we'd end up with T. S. Eliot's "Toilets," William Carlos Williams' "I Will Alarm Islamic Owls," and Ogden Nash's "Hen Gonads." Awesome! By the way, this reminds me that snowy_kathryn's name as an anagram spells "Shaky fans fart." Hee!