This Day in History: 1908

The first Gideon Bible was left in a hotel room.

News on November 10.

See birthdays below.

Birthdays on November 10.

Later.
I'm exhausted.
Again.

And the city paper's coverage...

I don't know what's more shocking here. The paucity of information, or the fact that this story, the first to run in the city paper, was posted at 7:52p, almost 12 hours after I took my photograph of the scene.

Oh. And there was no accompanying photograph with the on-line posting.

I guess that's why it's called "news."

Update on the accident.

Police officer, two teens taken to hospital after Waterbury crash
by News Channel 8's Crystal Haynes
Posted Nov. 10, 2007
Updated 5:15 PM

Waterbury (WTNH)_ Two teenagers and a police officer were transported to the hospital this morning after a crash in Waterbury.

The crash happened near the intersection of Highland Avenue and Vail Street around 3 a.m.

A mangled mess is all that's left of the two car accident that sent K-9 Waterbury Officer Matthew Smith to the hospital and a Thomaston family seeking answers.

Waterbury police say Officer Smith was traveling east across highland avenue when his cruiser was struck by 19-year old Micah Bonacassio and his friend Jason Giordano.

The accident totaled both cars involved and sent all three to the hospital with non-life threatening injures, but at St. Mary's hospital, where Micah is being treated today, his mother told News Channel Eight things went down differently.

"the accident came and they were both knocked out unconscious. but they both said that the cop car had no lights on. and T-bone into them," said Linda Bonacassio of Thomaston.

Linda also says she and her family were enraged when they weren't allowed to see Micah for three hours after the crash, because police were questioning him.

"Because of a police investigation, they let a mother and a father and brothers and sisters wait and not see my son. I didn't know if he was dead or alive in there," said Linda.

"I asked several times is my son under arrest? no you're son is not under arrest. And I said then we want to be with him and you can talk to him when we're there," said Micah's father, Anthony Bonacassio.

The Waterbury Police Department will not comment as to who was at fault for the accident. What they did say is no charges have been filed against Bonacassio or his passenger so far.

Investigators spent all day reconstructing the crash and continue to analyze the evidence from the scene.

They remain tight-lipped about that the details of that evidence but Linda and her husband Anthony have hired a lawyer and plan to seek legal action.

"The officer didn't mean it he was doing his job probably to go there. But he had no lights and went through a stop sign. and hit somebody. it's not his fault he got hit. he's in there lying there all banged up," said Anthony.

Micah's passenger, Jason Giordano, is also banged up. He and officer Smith were taken to Waterbury Hospital for treatment.

Officer Smith's police dog Domino was riding with him in his cruiser at the time of the accident, he was unfortunately killed in the crash.

Like, who really would buy this???

Let's get this straight: they want $2,508 US dollars for this?
Why? Is Freddie's DNA on this, and some mad scientist is conducting an experiment in cloning?

Maybe $2,500 US dollars yes. I'd buy it.

But that $8 US dollars puts it seriously over the top of my budget.

Damn!

BREAKING!!!FNN: The Fake News Network

This is a TOTALLY FALSE SCREEN-CAP of the local ABC affiliate.
While I did call them and e-mail the photograph to them,
and while the photograph is not manipulated in any form,
this photograph DOES NOT accompany the briefing on their website.

As part of my delusions of grandeur, it does!

So. Welcome to my world!

SERIOUSLY hot.As in 4-alarm fire!

Third-degree burns.
Black Irish?

The most brilliant pumpkin movie:EVAH!

There are an awful lot of amazingly talented and unsung creative individuals out there. We need to thank our lucky stars for YouTube, as we wouldn't see examples of cinematic excellence in any other form.

This short is actually worth paying to see.
Very, very inspired.

Enjoy. Interested in more of these video geniuses?
Check 'em out at BLAME SOCIETY Productions.

Pumpkin Brilliance!

P2The OrangeMercury Review

You'd pee too!

P2Trailer

WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!Parking Attendant Psycho-stud

Dead: Norman Mailer.

BREAKING!Highland Ave + Vail Street

Police officer, two teens taken to hospital after Waterbury crash
Posted Nov. 10, 2007 8:00 AM

Waterbury (WTNH)_ Two teenagers and a police officer were transported to the hospital this morning after a crash in Waterbury.

The crash happened near the intersection of Highland Avenue and Vail Street around 3 a.m.

Police say two teenagers driving a car hit a police cruiser.

The teens were transported to Saint Mary's Hospital. The officer, who has not been identified, was taken to Waterbury Hospital. There is no word yet on the extent of their injuries.

Officers say the police dog in the cruiser was killed in the crash.


This accident happened less than 1mile from where Iive.
According to preliminary information from the officer preventing me from getting beyond the police tape, the cause of this accident was unknown at the time. While three people, including the pursuing officer, were injured, sadly, the policeman's canine companion was killed.

Here's the rub:
The city newspaper is locked up tighter than (well, I can't say what I'm thinking!) Fort Knox, and The Hartford Courant's "breaking news desk" continually re-routes my calls to yet another voice-mail.

So you get to see this rare example of my spot news abilities before the cars are even towed from the scene.

More later.

Camera: Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-T33
Maximum optical zoom to capture the photograph;
enlarged and cropped with level adjustments in Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Both the uncropped and cropped versions are posted.

Vault: BLurT_Dance1993 – 1995

Scan from the original 35mm color negative; full-frame. Presumed lost.
Possible shoot date July 4 weekend, 1994.

Vault: BLurSyracuse|1979 – 1982

Scan from original 35mm color negative; strip.
Presumed lost.

Is it just me, or.

Is CNN running a UFO special on Larry BLing Jive in honor of Carl Sagan's birthday?

Hmmmmmm.

Vault: BLurSouth FloridaMale Figure StudyArtist Proof|Web

Scan from original 35mm color negative, strip.
Presumed lost.

Vault: BLurT_Dance|out-takesSouth Beach 1993 – 1995

Scanned from the original 35mm color negative, full-frame; presumed lost.

ANOTHER note to RICK THE DICK!

Ummm. Rick. Buddy. Dork-face.
Are we watching the same show?
Lou Dobbs threw the show over to your time slot, and you said (and I paraphrase) 'hey Lou, you're gonna like this. Watch.'
And, with a camera on him, what was he going to do? tell you to SHUT THE FUCK UP??? Lou was a sitting duck for your own personal, and broadcast, delusion of grandeur. It wasn't his idea, and I don't think I heard him say anything even close to being mad as hell. He was merely restating the statistics of the disproportionately high number of Americans disgusted with the government.

You are an embarassment to CNN.

Now, get on one of those UFOs Larry BLing Jive is featuring.

Note to Ricardo (Rick the Dick) Sanchez:

You are NO FUCKING ACTOR, and your JOB at CNN (poorly filling Paula Zahn's high-heels for the hour OUT IN THE OPEN) is NOT to be an "original" shouting LINES FROM A MOVIE while I am tuned in for news.

I can imagine you had a serious wet dream as Ricardito, whackin' off to "someday I'm gonna grow up and shout that line from the balcony at CNN."

Hey. Ricardo?

While you're at it, run into the Circle, and toss your hat in the air.

You're gonna make it.
After all.

BREAKING! Now, a word from our sponsor.Mattel.

Props to Esteban Miguel for swingin' this our way!

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Vault: BLurT_Dance|out-takesSouth Beach 1993 – 1995

Scan from original 35mm color negative; strip.
Presumed lost.

Vault: BLurT_Dance|out-takesSouth Beach 1993 – 1995

Scan from original 35mm color negative; strip.
Presumed lost.

Vault: BLurT_Dance|out-takesSouth Beach 1993 – 1995

Scan from original 35mm color negative: strip.
Presumed lost.

Noto bene:
I have never, ever, owned a motor drive of any sort. Ever.

CartoonsClipped. Saved. Scanned.

The Clintons.

Vault: Early Photoshop.Date unknown.

Scan from X-ray, 1986.
Still life of skull and hat, mid-90s.

Not scared.Scarred: 1986

Scan from an original X-ray of my neck.
Cervical excision, September 1986.

Digital manipulation unknown.

Suited for battle.~ 1987

Vault: 1981Syracuse|Student Work

Scan from the original 4" x 5" color chrome; presumed lost.

Vault: 1987Connecticut.

Scan from original color 35mm transparency (bottom), full-frame.
Slide presumed lost.

Digital manipulation ~ 2001.

Vault: 1988Hartford.

Scan from the original b+w 35mm negative,
full-frame; presumed lost.

Vault: Early 1980sConnecticut.

Scan from original color 35mm negative, full-frame; presumed lost.

Vault: ~ 1988Key West.

Scan from original color 35mm negative, full frame; presumed lost.

Vault: ~ 1987Hartford.

Scan from original b+w 35mm negative; presumed lost.

Vault: Late 1980sVirginia Key Beach.

Scan from Polaroid original, presumed lost.

Stalked.Lord Snowdon.New Haven. 2001.

Guess what THIS means...

vajayjay.

That's pronounced:

va-JAY-jay

Even I figured this one out.

Annie at Cipriani!

photo©Rosie O'Donnell (via the 'net)

According to Page Six

November 8, 2007 -- ANNIE Lennox lost some fans when she flipped them the bird Tuesday night at her concert at Cipriani Wall Street to benefit UNICEF. After Sarah Ferguson introduced the former Eurythmics star, Lennox was well into her second song when people started clapping as the number seemed to end. Our witness reports: "She got ticked, finished the song, then sarcastically said, 'Thank you for listening' and gave them the finger. She said everyone was loud and rude and they should have their five mojitos and 'go see KC and the Sunshine Band if you want to act that way.' "

Really now.
Would Annie lie to you?
The audience must've been cold, cold, cold.

OH! – WHAT!MY! – THE!GAWD! – FUCK!

Pardon me while I
PISS
MY
FUCKING
PANTS!

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!

NOT separated at birth!

Billions and billions and billionsand billions of candles.

Happy Birthday Carl Sagan.

Something to blink about.

Why it's great to be caught up in the web. Whether a photographer, graphic designer, or, basically, an artist with a camera, and whether or not photo-manipulation is or isn't a part of the creative process, there is something exceptionally remarkable about these images, no matter how overwhelmed you feel by the surfeit of images which assault your eyeballs and your grey matter.

In each and every case, the copyright remains with the original artist. This blog is merely acting under the auspices of a photo editor.

The Alternate.Beautiful.

Don't you bring me down.
Today.

Who fuckin' knew!6º...again!

You were also a Robert Mapplethorpe model?

Yeah, I'm 46 years old. I modeled for him from '79 to '84, and I did five photo shoots—the most famous one being of [African-American model] Ken Mooney and I—the [double] profile. It's his most famous work. It'll never go away. It always comes around.

What is it like knowing you're immortalized like that?
It's great—I mean, what can I say? It's nice to know my image will be around for…forever, I guess.

How are these two experiences, modeling for Mapplethorpe and the doing the Aguilera video, different for you?
Oh, very different! I mean, you know, I was modeling for a big S/M photographer. [Big laugh] And not knowing what he was going to do. I was young then. Now I'm older than everybody! I mean, I was young and green to New York City. And the leather scene was really not my scene. Although I was at a leather bar when he discovered me! [Laughs] I didn't own any—

Fetishist equipment?
Yeah! I saw his photographs. And I said, "Uh-oh." And he said, "Don't worry. It's your head I want." He did do a complete nude of me, though. It's in a couple of his books. That was our first shoot together.

A bonnie birthday, Bonnie!

I can't make you love me if you don't.
I can't make your heart feel something it won't...

And it WASN'T Hallowe'en!

Yep.

Life as a single gay guy is not without its spots of "Twilight Zone-esque" humor.
Imagine, if you will, some top leather daddy desirous of taking said leather bottom boy applicant out for a cup of coffee, er, strike that, a glass of room-temp urine. Yeah, that's better.

And what photo should said top leather daddy be sending out to entice said leather bottom?

See above.

And, for the record, I know for a fact it WASN'T Hallowe'en!

Noto Bene: A re-read of the post above *may* suggest to some readers that this writer is either a top leather daddy, or a bottom leather boy. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

I like my leather when it's stamped KENNETH COLE.

And that's the truth!

Judging books by their covers.

And falling.Bush's Approval Rating:ALL TIME LOW!

And rising.Frighteningly.

The Treasury Department, which issues a daily accounting of the debt, said Wednesday that the debt subject to limit was at $9 trillion on Tuesday. It was $8.996 trillion on Monday.

Last month, Congress passed and President Bush signed into law an increase in the government's borrowing ceiling to $9.815 trillion. It was the fifth debt limit increase since Bush took office in January 2001. Those increases have totaled $3.865 trillion. The total national debt is actually higher than $9 trillion because it includes borrowing by some agencies that are not covered by the congressional debt limit. That total was $9.086 trillion on Tuesday.

It took the country from George Washington until Ronald Reagan to reach the first $1 trillion in debt.

And climbing.Sadly.

The Other Wounded.

May I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!!

SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!

Don't get me started!

There shouldn't even be ONE homeless vet.
Especially from the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.

If the buck stops with the Commander-in-Chief,
THEN SHAME ON GEORGE W BUSH!

and his cronied administration.

Hey hey.They save the world, every day.

There are many reasons to watch Eurythmics' PEACETOUR DVD. Not the least among them is the fact that Annie and Dave donated ALL proceeds from the tour to Greenpeace and Amnesty International.

I say let's do it again, for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Katrina Hurricane Relief (remember that?) and|or other heavy, crushing, and worthy causes.

I'm all arms!Rob Marciano needs a hug!

During cross-talk with Tony Harris and Heidi Collins sparked by the young girl with detention for giving a hug in school, both Heidi and Tony asked Rob Marciano what he thought.

Rob, clearly flustered, stated in some manner that he was having a bad day. Both Tony and Heidi offered up a hug, and Rob "almost" started a story about why his day wasn't the best. He stopped short saying he'd tell them later.

Still offering up hugs to Rob, Tony and Heidi said he'd be ok.

Rob said he'd take those hugs.

Preferably from Heidi.

Peeling my eyeballs backwards!

Definitely have a woody over this one, it seems Joel-Peter Witkin meets Photoshop.
Or thereabouts.

This Day in History: 1991

Magic Johnson announces he has AIDS.

This Day in History: 2000

Al Gore won the popular vote for the office of President of the United States.

On another note: W was caught red-handed, stealing the office.

You can put lipstick on a pig...

And you still have a FUCKING PIG!

Gotta say, I'm kinda likin' his grovelling (sp?).
Look at it this way:
he has soooooooo much to lose,
at this point, I'm sure he'll say and/or do anything!

Love the crocodile tears with him and one of his sons.

Toss him off the air!
He's no hero.
He's WFT!

White.
Fucking.
Trash.

This Day in History.1929.

MoMA opens.

FYI @ FYE

Hmmm. What's wrong with THIS (not in the) picture?

Seems I was browsing in my local FYE today...and noted a rather large section dedicated to "adult" films...all behind plexi-Playboy Bunny title cards. Hmmmmm.

In about five minutes (ok, maybe 7 minutes) five employees asked me if I needed some help. I said no, thank you. One Oriental guy asked me twice within a ten minute span. He asked (the second time) if I was SURE I didn't need any help.

At that point, I was annoyed, and said that he'd just asked me about five minutes earlier. As I had just "browsed" the "adult section" (I was stunned to see it in a mall), I finally crack'd.

"Sure. You can help me. In this adult section, do you have any gay films?"

(to paraphrase)

"Yes, we carry lots of gay titles" at which time he started to direct me to import movies, foreign films, and "art" films.

"No, no, no. I know you have gay-themed movies in that section. I'm looking for gay films – not lesbian – in your adult section."

"Oh. I'm sure we have them."

"OK, can you show me?"

"Well, I don't know which ones, but if you have a title, I'm sure we can get it for you."

Noting the "Hot Asian Pussy" title, again I asked "where's the gay section for gay guys?"

He said the titles were "mixed in" with the rest.

I asked if he could do a search on the computer for "gay.male.films" and he said he couldn't do that.

"Can't? or won't?" I asked.

"Well, we can't search the adult section."

"Are the movies logged in as inventory?"

"Yes, they are."

"Electronically? With the gun you have in your hand?"

"Yes."

"Then why can't you find by subject matter?"

We were getting nowhere, no matter how hard I pushed. I even told him I wasn't interested in purchasing anything. I just wanted to know if there was gay male porn in their "adult" section.

He buckled. He said he didn't think so, but they DID have gay-themed titles (you know, we carry WILL & GRACE and other movies).

I told him it was apparent there was discrimination in the store.

Until I checked their website.

Seems the discrimination spread from the store to the web.

Go fig.

There's gonna be litigation.

Burn baby burn!

"Cremated son" turns up alive
Mon Nov 5, 2007 11:33am EST

LONDON (Reuters) - A mother cremated a body she thought was that of her dead son, only for him to turn up alive later, police said on Friday.

Gina Partington's 37-year-old son Thomas Dennison was reported missing last month and a body was found in Rusholme, Manchester, three days later.

The 58-year-old mother, from Urmston, Greater Manchester, formally identified the body as that of her son and, following an inquest, the body was cremated on October 30.

But police had actually found Dennison, living rough in Nottingham, four days earlier.

The case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission to discover why Partington was not told of her son's discovery in the days before she attended the cremation.

Inquiries are continuing to formally establish the identity of the body, but Greater Manchester police said they believe they know who he is.

Next of kin have been informed.

Police said in a statement: "This set of circumstances is clearly distressing and urgent inquiries are ongoing to establish how this happened."

iPod Rip.

Sometimes you just gotta rip the music on your iPod back to your computer, something Apple REALLY doesn't endorse, nor facilitate. Whilst trying to consolidate all my music libraries (in excess – yeah, them too! – of 25,000 songs and every version of them possible) from three computers, one iPod, and several external hard drives, I finally consolidated everything – except the iPod – on to LaCie's 500gig external HD. Ripping the iPod was a horse of a different color.

Senuti?
podUp?

Pay for some unknown, yet four star!, software developed by a company I haven't heard of? Or a trial version which will only transfer 40 tunes?

Never fear!

iPodRip is here!

And the trial version, fully functional, works just fine, right out the gate!

WOO-HOO!

Kidding, right?

Don't don't don't EVEN tell me this "man" reports on business for CNN. WHAT THE FUCK WAS HE THINKING HERE? OK, maybe the business of fashion and spectacles, being such a fashion spectacle himself. But really, Ali, dear, what did you see in the mirror the day they shot this photo? Were you thinking at all?? Didn't ANYONE say ANYTHING?

The glasses. The shirt. That suit? Or is it a vest?

Girl...

Separated at Birth?

One reports for CNN and the other warbles in Vegas.
You decide.

Deconstructing CNN

This bunch of talking heads is comprised of some very handsome men. You really wouldn't know it by the photos which represent them on CNN's site. Yo! CNN? Call me. I'll show you a portrait!


Politics and business. As reported by aliens.


iCandy.


One is African-American, the other is British.


My personal NEWS fave Miles was shuffled to the bottom of the deck, and that bilingual balding bark-a-thon Ricardo was dealt face up. WHY???


Soledad was jettisoned for Chetzilla? WHY WHY WHY!


The latest additions to the iCandy group. If Rob and Anderson are the vanilla, you know that Don and TJ are the chocolate of the candy dish.

Cleaning their own house.

Children's Museum employee distributed child porn, officials say

(CNN) -- The chief operating officer of the National Children's Museum was arrested Tuesday and is charged with distributing child pornography over the Internet, authorities said.

Robert A. Singer is accused of sending images depicting child pornography to people he believed to be a 12-year-old girl and her 33-year-old mother, according to a statement issued by U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia of the Southern District of New York.

In reality he was communicating with an undercover detective for the New York Police Department.

Some of the pornographic images were sent from Singer's computer at the museum, according to an affidavit filed in support of the charges by a special agent who investigates child pornography and child exploitation for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

The Washington museum posted a message on its Web site saying officials there are "horrified" by news of Singer's arrest. They reported that he has been suspended from his post, effective immediately, and is barred from the property.

Singer, 49, was arrested at his home in Falls Church, Virginia, by federal agents, according to the prosecutors' statement. Authorities allege he engaged in several instant messaging "chats" and e-mail communications with the undercover detective, posing as the woman and her daughter, from August to September.

He is charged with five counts of distributing child pornography in interstate commerce. If convicted on each count, he would face a sentence of up to 140 years in prison -- up to 20 years for the first count and up to 40 years for each additional count, prosecutors said.

Singer allegedly initiated contact with the undercover detective, posing as the mother, in an America On Line chat room called "Cuties." The chat room attracts people who "are known to trade in pornographic images, including child pornography," according to an affidavit filed in the case by a special agent who investigates child pornography and child exploitation for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"On five separate occasions in August 2007, Singer sent several images of child pornography over the Internet to the mother and the daughter, including images depicting sexual acts between minors and adults and images depicting known victims of child exploitation," prosecutors said.

In his communications with the supposed daughter, Singer pretended to be a 15-year-old boy, authorities said. In August 2007, he sent her two images featuring child pornography, according to the affidavit, with the instruction, "just delete it when you are done."

A search of Singer's AOL account activity showed that from July to September, he sent about 80 images featuring child pornography to people including the detective, authorities said in the statement. Also, the search revealed that he had received about 10 images and one video depicting child pornography.

Singer was expected to appear before a U.S. magistrate judge later Tuesday.

He is identified in the complaint as a spokesman for the National Children's Museum, but a spokeswoman who asked not to be identified said he was promoted to chief operating officer within the past few months. He has been employed by the museum for four years, she said.

In a written statement, the museum said it was notified by the Department of Homeland Security and ICE of Singer's arrest. "We are horrified by the charges," the statement said. "This news is deeply upsetting to the National Children's Museum family."

$4/gal gas?

when the price of a barrel of oil rises above $97...

can $100 be far behind?

I'm thinking before the end of this week we'll be seeing prices spike.

This Day in History.

The television.
The razor.

Deaths in Iraq.

The long, slow death of the Compact Disc

Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin
By Eliot Van Buskirk 10.29.07 | 12:00 AM

As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl -- the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles -- is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary.
Talk to almost anyone in the music business' vital indie and DJ scenes and you'll encounter a uniformly optimistic picture of the vinyl market.
"I'm hearing from labels and distributors that vinyl is way up," said Ian Connelly, client relations manager of independent distributor alliance IODA, in an e-mail interview. "And not just the boutique, limited-edition colored vinyl that Jesu/Isis-style fans are hot for right now."
Pressing plants are ramping up production, but where is the demand coming from? Why do so many people still love vinyl, even though its bulky, analog nature is anathema to everything music is supposed to be these days? Records, the vinyl evangelists http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifwill tell you, provide more of a connection between fans and artists. And many of today's music fans buy 180-gram vinyl LPs for home listening and MP3s for their portable devices.
"For many of us, and certainly for many of our artists, the vinyl is the true version of the release," said Matador's Patrick Amory. "The size and presence of the artwork, the division into sides, the better sound quality, above all the involvement and work the listener has to put in, all make it the format of choice for people who really care about music."
Because these music fans also listen using portable players and computers, Matador and other labels include coupons in record packaging that can be used to download MP3 versions of the songs. Amory called the coupon program "hugely popular."

Check out the entire article on Wired on-line here.

Flaunting your heterosexuality.

Note to the news folks:

Yep. I know a majority of you are heterosexual. Studies show that 90% (+/-) of all news personnel are heterosexual.

That's fine. I don't discriminate. I like my news, I don't care who is delivering it. Male, female, black, white, gay, straight. Whatever.

What I DON'T like, and what is NOT news to me is announcing that members of your staff delivered their babies.

Case in point: Nancy Grace.

It's bad enough that the female pit bull (I could have said "bitch") breeds. That's her business. She's not someone I'm going to run into in my daily journeys. But really. Do I need to know she delivered?

I think all this info about your staff is irrelevant to the actual news you should be reporting.

If, per chance, there is a gay member of your broadcast personalities, and they and their partner have a child via artificial insemination of a surrogate mother, do you announce their delivery status also?

I think not.

Now. STICK TO THE FUCKING NEWS.

And stop flaunting your heterosexuality.

And don't forget these birthdays.

Maria Shriver, John Philip Sousa, blah blah blah.

Rehearsing WHY.

Tap-dancing in the john!

The version floating around YouTube is posted here in the event embedding the QuickTime video fails.

Thanks to Peter Magic for the "heads" up on this one!

The Last Pig Roast.

Is it me or is this photo reminiscent of another, more famous, supper?
Hmmmm.

What's in the stars?

progressed

natal + progressed

natal + today's transits

Personal Daily Horoscope ©Astro
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
born 4 May 1960

At a critical point
The energies in your life are reaching a culmination now. This is the time to try to bring your affairs to a climax, but do not expect to escape opposition from other people, for others have ambitions that may be in conflict with yours. Even with those aspects of your life that have been working out well and are now reaching a climax, you are not yet past the critical point. To achieve is one thing, but to incorporate these achievements into your life and make them part of your personal growth is something else. You have built structures and organized your life in various ways, and now you will experience the consequences of these structures as they begin to react and influence your life. Yet you still have the creative power to determine how your own creations will recreate you.

Sun Opposition Sun , exact at 16:35
5 November 2007 to 7 November 2007.

PumpkinLaurie Turner

Photographed under scientific conditions, Laurie Turner reveals what we don't see, and what we really don't want to know about! More details later.

Separated at Birth!and I'm NOT kidding!

Music + SportsSI's bullshit article.

I'd say you must check out SI's article on the relationship between music and sports; however, there is no mention of the quintessential sports tunes of all:
Queen's WE WILL ROCK YOU and WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.

Typical.

You think Freddie's dying from HIV/AIDS had something to do with this?

WTF?????SpiderGirl!SERIOUSLY not for the squeamish!

A parasitic twin, the Xray of this young girl is seriously
NOT TO BE BELIEVED!
She absolutely looks like a spider!

The Xray is a screen-cap assembled from the footage shown on the CNN website video. She is missing either the bottom two arms or the bottom two legs. Perhaps this is to prevent sensationalism.

Either way, just broadcasting this is inviting sensationalism and exploitation.

Birthday Boy.

Talcum Powder + The Garage.

If you don't know the importance of talcum powder coupled with a night of fierce dancing, you haven't lived.

For the visually-impaired.

One more.

holding.

I'm still tired.

Kidding, right?

WTF?

holding.

Events.

holding.

Birthdays.

holding.

Monopoly.

Don't collect $200.

Aural SexHetero

Aural Pleasures.

*if this link no longer works, wander over to YouTube! and enter in 'Mory kante "yeke, yeke"' and you'll pull up the hottest African beats I've ever had the pleasure to hear in my life!

The luckiest soldier alive...ever!

Deja View.

Funny funny funny

Private, inside joke.
Right, Esteban Miguel?

I was there!LIVE! In Concert!

In no specific order, here's a listing of the various concerts I've been to. Not meant to be an all-inclusive list, it's pretty damn close. If someone played in New Haven, Hartford, Syracuse, New York City, Miami, Ft Lauderdale or Boston, and they were one of my favorites, chances are I was there.

I'd hate to think of all the money TicketMaster made off me via their "processing charges" over the years. I'll say this much: not only have concert ticket prices ranged from $6.50 - $100, some were, get this: FREE! Pretty much by taking a look at this list you can figure out which B-list artists were free.

Tops in the concerts-to-remember? Madonna (The Confessions Tour), Annie Lennox (Annie Lennox SINGS), Depeche Mode (Touring the Angel), Elton John (??) and, of course, Queen (News of the World).

Queen (CT, NY) (New Haven, Hartford, Syracuse)
Queen + Paul Rodgers (NJ)
Elton John (CT, NY, SFlorida, MA) (Hartford, MSG, Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Amherst)
Dead Can Dance (Miami, NYC)
Depeche Mode (Miami, MSG, Jones Beach)
kd lang (CT)
Annie Lennox (NY)
Thompson Twins (New Haven: Agora Ballroom)
Sister Sledge(CT)
Ministry (Miami)
Cocteau Twins (Miami)
David Byrne (Miami)
Romeo Void (Toad’s Place)
A Flock of Seagulls (Agora Ballroom: Hartford)
INXS (Agora Ballroom: Hartford)
Billy Idol (New Haven Coliseum, Agora Ballroom: Hartford; Springfield)
Pet Shop Boys (Miami, Radio City)
Madonna (Hartford)
David Bowie (Syracuse)
The Police (Syracuse)
Black Uhuru (Syracuse)
Goldfrapp (Jones Beach)
Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez (Diva)(Hartford)??????
Tiesto (Constitution Plaza, Hartford)
Thelma Houston (Miami)
Gloria Gaynor (Miami)
Jackie Moore (Ft Laud)
KC + The Sunshine Band (Ft Laud)
Foreigner (Waterbury)
Cheap Trick (Waterbury)
Tina Turner (Hartford)
Ryuchi Sakamoto
Billy Joel (with Elton John) Miami

Lemme get this straight.

Barack Obana missed something like 80% of Senate votes due to conflicts in his presidential hopeful travel schedules.

OK. That's "possible" as far as I can tell.

But flying in from South Carolina under heavy secrecy to be the lungs bellowing LIVE FROM NEW YORK IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!

What's up here?

**I need to verify the details herein, but I'm pretty damn sure this is the outline of the situation."

My MoMa (more Mapplethorpe)

check back.
I'm exhausted.

Annie Lennox SINGSSet list

No More "I Love You's"
Little Bird
Walking On Broken Glass
Pavement Cracks
Dark Road
Smithereens
Here Comes The Again (solo piano version)
A Thousand Beautiful Things (solo piano version)
Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves (solo piano version)
Cold
There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)
Ghosts In My Machine
Thorn In My Side
When Tomorrow Comes
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)
Sing
(encore)
Why

Quote|Unquote

It takes time and pressure to create a diamond.
–|anonymous

Found on the web.

Stalking Annie Lennox.The Holy Grail.

This edition (#668: May 1985) was in near-mint condition, PRIOR to last night. Standing in the cold, cold, cold and windy evening took its toll, and the cover sustained a few light creases. The signature is 100% authentic, and is blocked-out for ease of viewing online. You know this is going to be framed!

Freddie Lives! + he's versatile!

I can be dirty I can be flirty Do I like what you like?


I tried to be like Grace Kelly...ummmm...but her looks were so sad.
So I tried a little FREDDIE!

Ian Lawless.

Woof!

Just buddies.

"We tried it. It wasn't for us"
–|Matthew McConaughey joked to Details magazine about rumors of him and Lance Armstrong being gay.

This Day in History: 1922Walk like an Egyptian.

Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.

Burning Birthday Bush.

FYI:
I did NOT have anything to do with the manipulation of this photograph.
To see this image in its original location, click the hyperlink above.

Z isn't for Zebra.

Y do you ask?

X marks the spot.

Annie LennoxMay 1985.

Look for my post later.
I'm STILL fucking exhaustedtiredwipedout.

I'm def not 20 anymore!

File this with the small dick e-mail!

I'd say I was back too, 'cept I never left!

6º of Annie Lennox

1. Dave Stewart
2. Nelson Mandela
3. David Bowie
4. Aretha Franklin
5. Freddie Mercury

and that's just for starters!

STOP THE MO-FO PRESSES!

Yep.

I got it!

Woo-hoo!

Look for the posting of the evidence later today.
I'm fuckin' tired...

Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-LISH!Who.Fucking.Knew.

if I die before you wake.

Back home now I know you're probably sleepin'
Over here it's the middle of the day
I finally found the time to write a letter
Sittin' here a half a world away

I heard about all them folks protestin'
As if I really want this war
But that don't stop me from believin'
There's just some things worth fightin' for

And if I die before you wake,
I pray the world will take
A good look at what God's given us
That we could only understand,
everything is in his hands
All we need is a little faith and trust
I want you to know it ain't too high a price to pay
If I die before you wake

Tell everybody that I miss them
And I can't wait to get back home
But until then I'll serve my country
And be proud to wear this uniform

No it ain't too high a price to pay
If I die before you wake