THE DARWIN AWARDS - November 2007

THE DARWIN AWARDS - November 2007

PERSONAL ACCOUNT: Hedge Your Bets (near miss)

2007, Ontario, Canada || My friend's daughter is a plastic surgeon
with expertise in reconstructive surgery.  Recently a patient was
rushed into the hospital, needing a surgeon to reattach the tips
of his fingers to his left hand.

While taking the patient history, it was found that this bright chap
got the idea of holding his lawn mower sideways and applying it
to his hedge.  He was holding the mower deck, trimming the hedge,
and things went well until the weight of the mower got to be
a bit much.  He readjusted his grip on the mower deck, and
that was when the blade bit him.

When my friend's daughter was almost finished with the complex job
of sewing this patient back together, another patient came in with
the same injury!  On investigation, it was found that he, too,
had been using his mower to trim his hedge.  Apparently this man
was a neighbor of the first patient.  He watched his neighbor
trim his hedge, and thought it was a bright idea.


DARWIN AWARD: ZAP!

(2003, California) John, a real estate attorney, was skimming leaves
from his pool when he noticed a palm frond caught in the power lines.
Years of education equipped John with enough reasoning power to
become a successful litigator.  Yet his education did not equip him
with sufficient acumen to avoid becoming a toasty critter, when he
reached up with the long metal pole and poked at the palm frond.
John was, for once, the path of least resistance.

His family, perhaps as an homage to his litigation skills, sued
both the utility company and the pool supply store, which failed
to disclose the danger of using the pool skimmer on power lines.

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The Zombeatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sCnv4RmOEw

Burton in 3-D!

Tim Burton has signed a deal to produce two 3-D movies
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11643.html

Guinness & Books

Well there are books involved - and Guinness so it's double good.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2007/nov/08/guinnessadvert

Mini D&D Books!

http://www.waynesbooks.com/ADD.html

plant hater

Halloween 2007: Darwin Awards

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WENDY's CORNER

Halloween is here.  Below are two cautionary Halloween tales
about a Mummy and Count Dracula, a monumental game of Jenga
titled "Steel Steal," and a case of Beer for Bears.

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CONFIRMED DARWIN AWARD: Mummy Says, Don't Smoke
"Another Incentive to Kick the Habit"

For Halloween 1998, a Canadian man dressed as a mummy by wrapping
himself from head to toe in fluffy cotton batting. The cotton was
taped at the wrists and ankles, and white gloves and running shoes
completed his ensemble. As the mummy waited for his girlfriend
to dress for pictures, he carelessly lit a cigarette...
and the fluffy cotton burst into flames.

The reason for flame-retardant costumes became clear.

Firefighters arrived within minutes, yet already the mummy costume
was reduced to ashes, right down to the white coveralls underneath.
The man kept repeating, "It's my fault." He was taken to Soldier's
Memorial Hospital with 2nd and 3rd degree burns, where he died.

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CONFIRMED DARWIN AWARD:  Steel Steal
"Gravity Still Works"

July 2007, Czech Republic | A pack of thieves attempted to steal
scrap metal from an abandoned factory in Kladno.  Unfortunately
for them, they selected the steel girders that supported the
factory roof.  When the roof supports were dismantled, the roof
fell, fatally crushing two thieves and injuring three others.

June 2007, Philippines | Three entrepreneurs planned to profit
from stolen scrap metal.  They entered a former US military complex
and approached the prize: an abandoned water tank.  Bedazzled by
the potential upside, the three threw logic to the wind, and began
to cut the metal legs out from under the tank.  Guess where it fell?

Straight onto the thieves.

Darwin notes, "What are these thieves doing, playing a deadly
game of Jenga?!  This entire category may soon become too common,
in violation of the Rule of Excellence.  See Scrap Metal Thieves
and Barn Demolition."

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UNCONFIRMED DARWIN AWARD: Death of Dracula

1994 | A college student dressed up as Dracula for Halloween.  For
the finishing touch, he put a pine board down the front of his
shirt, so he could stick a knife into the board and pretend he was
transfixed with a killing stake.  He didn't consider the strength
of the thin pine board when he tapped in the knife with a hammer.

Propelled by the force of the hammer, the sharp knife tip split
the soft wood and buried itself in his heart.  He staggered from
his dorm room into the party, gasping, "I really did it!"
before succumbing before horrified friends.

REFERENCE: Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples, Ph.D., 1994
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CONFIRMED DARWIN AWARD: Beer for Bears

August 2007, Serbia | It's well known that alcohol impairs judgement.
It's well known that carnivorous wild animals and humans don't mix.
What happens when we combine all three?  One might expect men, bears,
and beer to combine with lethal consequences. Such was the case for
a 23-year old man who inadvertently fed himself to Masha and Misha
at the Belgrade Zoo.

The Zoo director said of the incident, "Only an idiot
would jump into the bear cage."

The man's naked, mauled corpse was found inside the bear habitat, along
with several mobile phones, bricks, and plenty of beer cans.  His clothes
were completely undamaged, suggesting that he approached the bears
bare-naked.  The bears, fearing that his intentions were as dishonorable
as they were ill-informed, meted out a summary justice.

Later, Masha and Misha "reacted angrily" when keepers tried to recover
the man's corpse, but were eventually persuaded to give up their tasty
prize.  We await word on how many beers were bartered for the body.

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Best News of Last Year

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When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.

Pluto, we salute you. (February 18, 1930 - August 24, 2006)

Wristcutters

This looks good.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=19130566

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=4528530

Fwd: CARDIOLOGIST'S FUNERAL

CARDIOLOGIST'S FUNERAL
   
   A cardiologist died and was given an elaborate funeral.
A huge heart covered in flowers stood behind the casket during
the service.
   
    Following the eulogy, the heart opened, and the casket
rolled inside.  The heart then closed, sealing the doctor in the
beautiful heart forever.       
 
   At that point, one of the mourners burst into laughter.
When all eyes stared at him, he said, "I'm sorry, I was just
thinking of my own funeral.........I'm a gynecologist." 
 
The proctologist fainted.

Brats

I suppose it was worthwhile since the mom bought a pile of kids books, but those boys were a terror playing with their lizards all over, and pulling books out of the shelves....

Mall Life

http://www.projo.com/news/bobkerr/Kerr_column_03_10-03-07_MT7BIVG.3305c2c.html

http://www.trummerkind.com/mall/Some_Thoughts/Some_Thoughts.html

Robert Jordan has died

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6999578.stm

Bizarre Planet-Mass Object Orbiting Neutron Star

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/millisecond_pulsar.html

'Book' Site

This is really neat

http://www.thisintothat.com/

Gah!, lady comes in, first off with a big open cup of tea or something, and she keeps setting it on the shelf, okay, she didn't spill it, but yikes, then! she's looking in the romance, and shuffling stacks around getting things all out of order, She can't find an author, so I carefully point out that the books are organized alphabetically by the authors last name (or at least they were until she got into them), so if she's looking for an author whose name begins with an 'S' she should look under the sign that says 'Romance S' not where it says 'Romance B', I decline to comment on her yelling for assistance from across the store, but she's lucky I even heard her as books make fairly good sound baffles. Astoundingly she actually gets some books (for trade of course), I was beginning to wonder about her ability to read...

How come I never hear about this stuff when it happens?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6589157.stm

Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

the 'Creature!'

http://brentkmoore.blogspot.com/2007/07/creature-of-sugar-flat-rd.html

Weird Sex

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pirate-DVD nabbing dogs

Malaysia awards medals to pirate-DVD nabbing dogs
Reuters
Published on ZDNet News: Aug 20, 2007 9:35:00 AM

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6203411.html?tag=nl.e550

Two dogs trained to sniff out DVDs received medals from the Malaysian
government on Monday for a five-month campaign that crippled movie
pirates.

Lucky and Flo, black Labradors trained to detect the chemicals used in
making DVDs, were the first animals to receive the outstanding service
awards for finding discs stockpiled by pirates, the Motion Picture
Association said in a statement.

The canine campaign led to 26 arrests and seizures of illegal discs
worth more than $6 million.

"The dogs have proven to be a major asset in our fight against the
pirates, and we intend to continue what Lucky and Flo have set in
motion," S Veerasingam, Malaysia's deputy minister for domestic trade
and consumer affairs, said in the statement.

Malaysia, which figures on a U.S. watchlist on piracy, has
dramatically stepped up efforts to rein in copyright pirates as it
negotiates a free-trade pact with Washington.

The success of Lucky and Flo has prompted the ministry to set up its
own canine unit to fight the pirates, and the MPA, which arranged for
their trial by Malaysian officials, plans to donate two new dogs to
the unit by the end of the year.

Movie pirates even put a bounty of 100,000 ringgit ($28,560) on Lucky
and Flo after they busted a fake DVD ring in the southern Johor state
in March, the MPA said. Since then, the dogs have been closely
guarded.

Lucky and Flo's next stop on their crime-fighting tour is a visit to
New York, followed by a trip to Toronto for an appearance at a film
festival, said the MPA, which groups six major Hollywood film
companies.

The MPA groups Walt Disney's Buena Vista; Paramount Pictures, a unit
of Viacom; Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony; Twentieth Century Fox, a
unit of News Corp.; Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric's
NBC Universal; and Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner.

The group estimates that copyright theft cost its members about $1.2
billion in lost revenue in the Asia-Pacific region last year, with
annual worldwide losses of $6 billion.

Okay, this just seems rather depressing for some reason.

http://www.payphone-directory.org/discussion/sub1.html

Fourth Ed. D&D!!!

Wizards of the Coast has unveiled Fourth Edition Dungeons and Dragons:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11123.html

D&D stuff

http://www.enworld.org/archive/index.php/

Book Hunter

http://www.shigabooks.com/indeces/bookhunter.html

Insane?

http://www.drivemeinsane.com/

Conan - What is Best in Life?

Pirates vs Ninjas

Wellington Grey -- Miscellanea -- Pirates vs Ninjas

Apple's Newest Product

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjLEwZqcQI

Check your potter books, are a few reports of misprinted copies, with pages 643-674 missing at end, and some with skips from page 642 to page 707 to 730 then back to page 675.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6462186.html?nid=2286&source=link&rid=1097279302

Pimp your Infant

http://www.pimpfants.com/

If you like Grey's Anatomy

Star Wars - gone too far...

The Pole-arm Shop

The Pole-arm Shop = D&D vs Monty Python
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html

WTF!!

YPL : Leash Your Girl!

YPL : Leash Your Girl!

Electric Lady

More George Carlin

Here's another question I've been pondering -- what is all this shit about angels? Have you heard this? Three out of four people belive in angels. Are you fucking stupid? Has everybody lost their mind? You know what I think it is? I think it's a massive, collective, psychotic chemical flashback for all the drugs smoked, swallowed, shot, and obsorbed rectally by all Americans from 1960 to 1990. Thirty years of street drugs will get you some fucking angels, my friend!


What about Goblins, huh? Doesn't anybody belive in Goblins? You never hear about this. Except on Halloween and then it's all negative shit. And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable! I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well.

GEORGE CARLIN on Fencing

GEORGE CARLIN AND SPORTS
Fencing. Faggoty college shit. Also this activity isn't a sport, because you can't gamble on it. Anything you can't gamble on can't be a sport. When was the last time you made a fuckin' fencing bet?

vegans

Very Very Very Very Short Stories

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

Wired

We'll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never

worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror

writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.

Dozens of our favorite auteurs put their words to paper, and five master graphic designers

took them to the drawing board. Sure, Arthur C. Clarke refused to trim his ("God said,

'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist."), but the rest are concise

masterpieces.

Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
- William Shatner

Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn

Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love.
- David Brin

Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon

Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
- Stan Lee

Machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time
- Alan Moore

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood

His penis snapped off; he's pregnant!
- Rudy Rucker

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
- Gregory Maguire

Internet "wakes up?" Ridicu -
no carrier.
- Charles Stross

With bloody hands, I say good-bye.
- Frank Miller

Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert, please.
- Steven Meretzky

"Cellar?" "Gate to, uh … hell, actually."
- Ronald D. Moore

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge

It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling

We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
- James Patrick Kelly

It's behind you! Hurry before it
- Rockne S. O'Bannon

I'm your future, child. Don't cry.
- Stephen Baxter

1940: Young Hitler! Such a cantor!
- Michael Moorcock

Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
- Richard Powers

I'm dead. I've missed you. Kiss … ?
- Neil Gaiman

The baby's blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card

Kirby had never eaten toes before.
- Kevin Smith

Rained, rained, rained, and never stopped.
- Howard Waldrop

To save humankind he died again.
- Ben Bova

We went solar; sun went nova.
- Ken MacLeod

Husband, transgenic mistress; wife: "You cow!"
- Paul Di Filippo

"I couldn't believe she'd shoot me."
- Howard Chaykin

Don't marry her. Buy a house.
- Stephen R. Donaldson

Broken heart, 45, WLTM disabled man.
- Mark Millar

TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there …
- Harry Harrison

Tick tock tick tock tick tick.
- Neal Stephenson

Easy. Just touch the match to
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Special Web-only edition: We were unable to include these 59 stories in the print magazine.

New genes demand expression -- third eye.
- Greg Bear

K.I.A. Baghdad, Aged 18 - Closed Casket
- Richard K. Morgan

WORLD'S END. Sic transit gloria Monday.
- Gregory Benford

Epitaph: He shouldn't have fed it.
- Brian Herbert

Batman Sues Batsignal: Demands Trademark Royalties.
- Cory Doctorow

Heaven falls. Details at eleven.
- Robert Jordan

Bush told the truth. Hell froze.
- William Gibson

whorl. Help! I'm caught in a time
- Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel

Nevertheless, he tried a third time.
- James P. Blaylock

God to Earth: "Cry more, noobs!"
- Marc Laidlaw

Help! Trapped in a text adventure!
- Marc Laidlaw

Thought I was right. I wasn't.
- Graeme Gibson

Lost, then found. Too bad.
- Graeme Gibson

Three to Iraq. One came back.
- Graeme Gibson

Rapture postponed. Ark demanded! Which one?
- David Brin

Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.
- David Brin

Bang postponed. Not Big enough. Reboot.
- David Brin

Temporal recursion. I'm dad and mom?
- David Brin

Time Avenger's mistaken! It wasn't me...
- David Brin

Democracy postponed. Whence franchise? Ask Diebold...
- David Brin

Cyborg seeks egg donor, object ___.
- David Brin

Deadline postponed. Five words enough...?
- David Brin

Metrosexuals notwithstanding, quiche still lacks something.
- David Brin

Brevity's virtue? Wired saves adspace. Subscribe!
- David Brin

Death postponed. Metastasized cells got organized.
- David Brin

Microsoft gave us Word. Fiat lux?
- David Brin

Mind of its own. Damn lawnmower.
- David Brin

Singularity postponed. Datum missing. Query Godoogle?
- David Brin

Please, this is everything, I swear.
- Orson Scott Card

I saw, darling, but do lie.
- Orson Scott Card

Osama's time machine: President Gore concerned.
- Charles Stross

Sum of all fears: AND patented.
- Charles Stross

Ships fire; princess weeps, between stars.
- Charles Stross

Mozilla devastates Redmond, Google's nuke implicated.
- Charles Stross

Will this do (lazy writer asked)?
- Ken MacLeod

Cryonics: Disney thawed. Mickey gnawed. Omigawd.
- Eileen Gunn

WIRED stimulates the planet: Utopia blossoms!
- Paul Di Filippo

Clones demand rights: second Emancipation Proclamation.
- Paul Di Filippo

MUD avatars rebel: virtual Independence Day.
- Paul Di Filippo

We crossed the border; they killed us.
- Howard Waldrop

H-bombs dropped; we all died.
- Howard Waldrop

Your house is mine: soft revolution.
- Howard Waldrop

Warskiing; log; prop in face.
- Howard Waldrop

The Axis in WWII: haiku! Gesundheit.
- Howard Waldrop

Salinger story: three koans in fountain.
- Howard Waldrop

Finally, he had no more words.
- Gregory Maguire

There were only six words left.
- Gregory Maguire

In the beginning was the word.
- Gregory Maguire

Commas, see, add, like, nada, okay?
- Gregory Maguire

Weeping, Bush misheard Cheney's deathbed advice.
- Gregory Maguire

Corpse parts missing. Doctor buys yacht.
- Margaret Atwood

Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.
- Margaret Atwood

He read his obituary with confusion.
- Steven Meretzky

Time traveler's thought: "What's the password?"
- Steven Meretzky

I win lottery. Sun goes nova.
- Steven Meretzky

Steve ignores editor's word limit and
- Steven Meretzky

Leia: "Baby's yours." Luke: "Bad news…"
- Steven Meretzky

Parallel universe. Bush, destitute, joins army.
- Steven Meretzky

Dorothy: "Fuck it, I'll stay here."
- Steven Meretzky

Serenity Tales

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/serenitytales/st_beginnersluck/series.php?view=archive&chapter=12870&mpe=1&step=1

Wild Things

http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/movies/movies_blog/062107_wildthingsare_big.jpg

Pimp my Bookcart

http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=745

eBay Adult

http://tinyurl.com/3yaz64

http://tinyurl.com/2k2yop

OJ If I Did it

http://www.scribd.com/doc/121908/OJ-Simpson-If-I-Did-It

Not really graphic or anything - but stomach churning none-the-less.

http://www.myspace.com/p2superman

http://www.myspace.com/poppinglover

http://www.myspace.com/lushboobs

http://www.myspace.com/soothsayerd2k

http://www.myspace.com/titty_tops

And they all want to be my friends...

an Authentic Book!

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Atari

 Atari cast-offs could be treasure trove for East Bay man

By Chris Metinko
MediaNews
San Jose Mercury News

Article Launched:06/20/2007 10:04:12 AM PDT

Before "Halo," "World of Warcraft" or any "Grand Theft Auto," there
was "Pole Position," "Donkey Kong," and yes - everyone's favorite -
"Dig Dug."
And Cort Allen has the documents, designs and diagrams to prove it -
at least for another day.

On Thursday, his collection of all-things Atari goes up for bid at
Sotheby's New York. It is expected to sell for between $150,000 and
$250,000.

Allen, 60, a Pleasanton resident and semiconductor design consultant,
laughs at the estimated sale price. Back in 1985, he just thought it
was a lot of cool stuff.

At that time, Allen was looking for used furniture for his new Quest
Consulting company and he stopped in Sunnyvale at an office equipment
fire sale for Atari which had gone belly up.

"I saw these cabinets and told the guy, "I want to buy these
cabinets,'" Allen remembered. "They were full of all this original
artwork for the game cartridges and the original manual writeups.

"The guy said, "Sure, let me just clean them out for you, and I said,
`No, no I want that stuff,'" Allen recalled.

"He said, "Why? It's junk," Allen said. "And I said, 'Yeah, but it's
cool junk.'"

Allen paid $2 for each of the 40 cabinets, each chockful of Atari 2600
pixelated goodness, which included drafts for a manual for the game
"Robotron 2084," classic artwork from "Dig Dug" and early images of
such characters such as Mario and Donkey Kong, for Atari versions of
the Nintendo games.

"I used to look at that stuff a lot," Allen said.

Since that time, Allen said he's moved the 350 pounds of video game
history around his house, from closet, to shelves to garage - all much
to his wife's chagrin.

"My wife's so thrilled" with the auction," Allen said. "She'll
probably even be happier Thursday when she knows it's gone for good."

Allen too is looking forward to Thursday. While he loves his
collection of Atari artifacts, he also loves the numbers Sotheby's has
told him he might get from his auction.

"Honestly, I thought maybe it was worth a couple of thousand dollars,"
he said. "When I found out how much they were estimating it at, I
couldn't believe it.

"It's one of those things where I said I'd never part with it. Then
somebody comes along and makes you an offer you can't believe and you
say, 'Sold,'" Allen said with a laugh.

Allen, who still owns an original Atari 2600, said if the video game
documents get the right bid, he's hoping to use the money to help pay
off his kids' college bills.

"It's really great stuff," Allen said. "It's the history of Atari. I
used to look at it quite a bit. But I'm OK parting with it now. I'm
tired of moving it around my house."

blogosphere

http://www.gapingvoid.com/

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Game

Play online, with pictures!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml

Giant - Iron Giant

Wrong Trousers Day 2007

Wallace & Gromit's Wrong Trousers Day is fast approaching. On Friday 29th June you can join thousands of people across the country and get your kit on to raise money for children in hospitals and hospices all around the UK.

You decide what to wear; your favourite football kit, tennis shorts or cricket whites, the choice is yours, just have fun! If your organisation has a strict uniform policy you can simply wear one of our great Wrong Trousers Day stickers to show your support.

To register to take part and receive your fantastic Wallace & Gromit Fundraising pack please log on to          
http://www.wrongtrousersday.org/

Thank you for taking part and have lots of fun!

Nick Park
Trustee of Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation
Creator of Wallace & Gromit

Wallace & Gromit's Wrong Trousers Day raises funds for Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation, which supports children's healthcare throughout the UK.

Serenity

http://www.propstore.com/products.htm?movieIdForm=877&productsKeywordSearchform=&pageNum=&show_all_items_form=&isSubmitSearch=0&productCategoryIdForm=0&categoryIdForm=0&genreIdForm=-1&productsSortType=0&recordsPerPage=30

the smell

Guy comes in the store sniffing and says "My, it smells good in here, like wood. That alone is a reason to return"

Women _in_ Art

Poo!

http://tinyurl.com/3e4zay

Conan

New York, USA to Paris, France

go to Google.com maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=wl
click on get directions
put in from New York, usa to Paris, France
check out direction #21

Drama!

<rant>
Gah I HATE drama. Why can't people keep their personal feelings to themselves?! and let things be.
And I dislike it when people don't keep their word, sure it's minor, but it becomes more and more annoying as they continue to break small promises. One of the reasons I try to never commit to a specific action or date ahead of time is that once I give my word I'm going to feel committed to hold to it, regardless of how difficult, expensive, or inconvenient it may later become to do what I said, I'll still do it. I consistently rely on what others say they will do, as if they really will do what they have said, and am consistently disappointed, no, not _every_ thing, but enough that it becomes annoying. Why can't they at least let me know ahead of time if they're not going to do as they say?! So I don't count on it and fail to make other plans.
And why don't people be specific and clear about things! If there is something they want done, don't just assume I know what the hell they are thinking! spell it out! be as specific as possible. Ok I'm guilty of the last as well, but when I try to get the specifics out of people they tend to think I'm being deliberately obtuse when it's the exact opposite I'm trying to accomplish!
Gah!
</end rant>

The Drinky Crow Show is up!

Go watch now!

LA Times Book Fest 2007

http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=8171&schedID=485

Ninja Hate!

It's the smiley faces that really give it the extra weirdness.

Chuck Palahniuk May 7, 6:30

MYSPACE FEATURE EVENT!

Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) discusses and signs Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

Monday, May 7, 6:30pm

Located at Vroman�s Main Store, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101 on the outdoor stage

Using a new format (oral history), Palahniuk�s novel visits the family, friends, and enemies of the dead serial killer Buster Casey.  As they try to make sense of the void left by his passing, his life is examined in full, unveiling the truly macabre and often contradictory details of a horrific path of death and destruction.  A truly dark masterpiece as only Palahniuk himself could write!  (Please note that this event was moved to Vroman�s Main Store from its original location at CalTech�s Beckman Auditorium.  The time was also changed from its original time of 8 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.)

 

Event Guidelines are as follows:

 

~ Numbered line tickets will be handed out beginning at 9 a.m. that morning.  (Customers who do not buy their book from Vroman�s will be attached to the end of the ticketed line.)

~ Chuck will sign copies of Rant along with 3 backlist titles brought from home.

~ He will personalize books.

~ There will be NO POSED PHOTOS allowed, however photos from the line are ok.

Vroman's Bookstore

695 E. Colorado Blvd.

Pasadena, CA, 91101

(626) 449.5320 phone

(626) 792.7308 fax

Vroman's Bookstore | 695 E. Colorado Blvd. | Pasadena | CA | 91101

Stardust

Charles Vess Review
http://www.greenmanpress.com/news/

Hot Fuzz

There's only one thing I can say - BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL!
an 8, not quite as good as Shaun of the Dead but very close.

Spider-man - The Musical!

Plans for a Spider-Man musical are finally taking shape with a casting notice and reading scheduled for July:

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/10429.html

BRITISH HUMOR