A Miscellany

[shanmonster]

Yesterday's party went well, despite a lack of certain people (you know who you are!). We played human Jenga, had a bikini contest (snowy_kathryn won, being the only participant), ate lots of food, and had a game of 1000 Blank White Cards. f00dave got a cordless telephone and answering machine from Erin. She got a gift certificate for a spa treatment. Both f00 and Erin made squeeing sounds over their presents.

I spent the day traipsing around town with Kathryn while wearing a zebra-print mini skirt and freezing my arse off. Since when did it decide to turn cold? The weather's been so beautiful lately! We put up posters for the upcoming dance class. I sure hope I get more students. Classes have been underpopulated lately.

I'm trying to discover a place to visit for a weekend in May. I have a free car rental I have to use up, and I need a place to go. I think an 8-hour drive is about what we could manage. The Boston Cyberarts Festival looks fantastic, but the workshops all take place during the week, and my car rental is only for a weekend. Damn.

The other night, I had a bizarre dream that I was a soldier riding on the back of an invisible armoured truck. It really sucked because I wasn't invisible, and I floated along the road in my army greens. And then, I had some sort of episode where I confronted a combination of Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, and Bruce Willis. Their names were so similar that the men melded together into one fantastic creature.

And now for some long-overdue links....

Vietnamese has bird flu after drinking duck blood: Vampires avoiding human blood for fear of contracting HIV and hepatitis can't even drink duck blood safely, now. Poor vampires.

Holocaust victim sues TriMet: "An 81-year-old Holocaust survivor is suing TriMet and a former bus driver for more than $5 million, saying that when the driver yelled at her and pushed her off his bus it reawakened the memories of Auschwitz." At first, I thought this was litigious overexaggeration. But the bus driver's actions appear inexcusable. What a jerk.

Rare Disorder Causes Endless Hunger: I'd never before heard of Prader-Willi syndrome. It sounds absolutely hellish.

Getting to the Bottom of an Unwholesome Obsession: "The good news on sphincter bleaching is that it's safer than anything involving general anaesthetics or fat-vacuuming gizmos. The bad news is that you could be in for a lifetime of skid marks."

Greatest movie of all time: A good review of a bad movie: Orca.

Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant: "'Performed by more than 200 men seated in tight concentric circles around a small central space reserved for the chief protagonists,' the ketjak (loosely called 'Monkey Chant') was first recorded in Bali by David Lewiston and released by Nonesuch Records in 1969. As a spectacular and alternative performance mode, it has had a germinal influence on western performance and poetics since then."

Information Does Not Exist: It really doesn't (thanks, f00).

La Vida Robot: "How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from M.I.T. in the national underwater bot championship."

Nasal Hentai: Definitely NSFW.

Pope Reborn as Superhero in Comic: "Pope John Paul II is being reborn in a Colombian comic book as a superhero battling evil with an anti-Devil cape and special chastity pants."

Pinnochia: Fetish site about girls with Pinnochio noses (I thought of you, elanya).

Rice Dream: I don't know a whole lot about cars, but I do know these cars are ridiculous.

The Viagra Challenge: NSFW. Thoroughly tasteless and misogynistic article which kept me reading out of horrible morbid curiosity.

Playmobil cachondos: Definitely NSFW. Definitely not what you want to see done with Playmobil dudes.

Scary Muscle Woman: NSFW. The overmuscling isn't the thing that disturbs me. It's her terrible breast implants.

Rooster: NSFW, I think. It's a chicken-shaped hand-knit posing pouch. I'd wear it on my junk if I were a guy.

Comments

[miraba.livejournal.com]

You should definitely come to Boston. I'd take you out for lunch.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

We shall see! That would be peachy....

[miraba.livejournal.com]

If you decide to come to Boston, let me know. I'll be around Sunday, but not for too long.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

It looks like it won't be happening--at least, not in the near future. But I'll let you know if I get the chance!