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[shanmonster]

I just got out of bed and am not at all awake yet, but I shall write, regardless. I watched Half Baked last night. I may never forgive myself. I do not understand all the rave reviews of the movie. It was REALLY BAD.

Here are a few links for your amusement and education:

Dying Cat Finds an Unlikely Friend: It's like a sad Disney moment.

Quite a Stretch: A lot of the reasons you stretch are bunk. I do believe repeated, consistent stretching while already warmed up helps improve flexibility, though. If it didn't, why else can I track distinct progress in my range of motion (thanks, f00dave)?

Egg Kills Hen: Chicken lays monstrously huge egg and expires. If you've seen Carnosaur, you know that this is the beginning of the end.

Global warming pushes Polar bears to cannibalism: If you go up to the North today, you're in for a big surprise. If you go up to the North today, you'd better believe your eyes.

Hero cat predicts epileptic fits: I suspect something more sinister. I think the cat is causing the epileptic fits! Bad kitty! Evil kitty!

WW2 spy always had her lipstick, revolver: "She never left home without her red lipstick, high heels and Chanel No. 5 — not to mention her revolver, which she used to kill a Gestapo colonel when she was 21."

Man versus Nature: The Great Bavarian bear hunt: "Dressed in bright yellow waistcoats a team of four Finnish bear hunters and five sweating elk hounds with GPS position-finders strapped to their backs, were scouring the wooded, boulder-strewn terrain for traces of Bruno, a possibly lovesick, elusive six-foot brown bear." Elk hounds don't sweat.

George Washington: Facts you might not have known. Possibly NSFw (thanks, chadnfrood).

Comments

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

That George Washington thing is *inspired*,

*goes to read about crappy stretching*

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I fell in love!

[thebluestar98.livejournal.com]

i HATED half baked. in fact, i couldnt watch the whole thing. im with you on not understanding the rave reviews.

that spy lady's picture when she was old is way scary. what a cool story though.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

She is scary in the recent photo. The photo of her as a 21-year-old surprised me, though. I expected an uber-babe by the write-up, and she looks very homey and unglamourous.

[sageincave.livejournal.com]

I think you have to be in the right *mood* to enjoy Half-baked...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Theoretically, at least, I was.

[jourdannex.livejournal.com]

SPY. Omg. No one said there was a career path I could have taken where red lipstick, heels, perfume and a revolver were my tools. Well, other than just nightclubbing in L.A. but you know what I mean.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

There's always the option of becoming a Bond girl.

[superbrad.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome crop of links, Shan. Thanks! :)

Stretching: The only thing I assumed stretching did was loosen you up a bit and if done intensively, sloooowly increase your total mobility.

Bears: Global warming? What global warming?

Dying Cat/Hero Cat: *scientist mode on* But animals are just little robots! They can't think! Or feel even. *scientist mode off*

Washington: LOLx100!!!

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[miami-pony.livejournal.com]

[scientist mode on]
A cat with kidney failure would exude secretions through its facial glands that would be high in sugars, salts and urea. Deer would probably find this interesting enough to lick the cat's face.

Poor kitty.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I wondered why the deer would do that, and this makes loads of sense! A feline salt lick....

Poor kitty indeed.

Stretching

[(Anonymous)]

I see, so he completely debunks (in his opinion, I don't agree with his conclusions) stretching, but goes with the Chinese energy meridians thingy?

*quack* *quack, quack*

Some opinions...

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

I've done what he adocated, though instinctively, to knots in Shan's legs. Very much "trigger points", that yielded to steady pressure/massage. The same thing is happening in my shoulder/chest.

Moreover, he doesn't talk about chi, meridians, or anything. -shrug-

Finally, while most of "alternative medicine" is junk, there are little seeds of truth in anything. Just like there are some pretty big holes in science and western medicine. The challenge is to find those seeds/holes. This is made difficult because the seeds are lost in an incredibly vast amount of "equally-irrational" noise -- we generally lack a strong sense of which things are closer to being realizable when it comes to irrationality: in a dream anything is equally possible -- and the holes in science are generally poorly-understood -- where is the coverage of "known problems with the existing paradigm(s)" given to first-year science students? It's not there at all, generally! And that makes me sad....

[issi-noho.livejournal.com]

All these years I haven't bothered stretching before training... I feel validated.

StillWater

[(Anonymous)]

Wow! Semi permanent make up has alot of uses! But did you know that a woman consumes over 4 to 9 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime! Here is the link that I found that shows all of the research:
http://www.lipink.com/lipstick_wax_s/6510.htm&Click=33586