Happy Veal-entine's!
This may be the best valentine ever:
Sorry. I veal bad for posting this.
2009-02-14 12:14:41 UTC
Just in Time for Valentine's...
I love this headline:
Pubic Hair Provides Evolutionary Home for Gorilla Lice
Our pubic hair is so nurturing! It really is like a nest-- a nest in which only gross stuff thrives. The article is about the origin of pubic lice, a perfect topic for valentine's day dinner conversation. Apparently pubic lice evolved from gorilla lice, but the divergence occurred after humans split from gorillas, like almost four million years afterwards. This of course implies that humans caught pubic lice from gorillas. Or at least one human being had one magic moment with one special gorilla, bequeathing the entire human species a new, sexier form of lice.
I'm not pointing fingers.
Happy valentine's!
2009-02-13 00:40:12 UTC
I'm Going to SF
I am graffiti, thanks to befunky.com.
I'm off to San Francisco for a long, drunken President's Day weekend. Stay tuned for some special Presidents' Day-themed posts!
2009-02-12 20:39:58 UTC
Cartoonified Bollywood Stars: Amitabh Bachchan
Here is Amitabh in Don, sporting the classic red bowtie:
And in Deewaar, looking his usual badass self:
Both are excellent films.
If you feel like watching Amitabh in action, here's the bromantic song "Yeh Dosti" from Sholay. This song makes me so happy.
2009-02-11 17:52:40 UTC
The Border Patrol's Ranchera CD
Did you know that the frickin' Border Patrol released a CD of ranchera songs? It's called Migra Corridos and has five songs on it. Notice the use of the term "migra," a pejorative term for the US Border Patrol. You can't actually buy the CD, though in fact you already paid for it with your taxes, because it is only being distributed to radio stations in Northern Mexico to be disseminated to the Mexican public. But you can listen to four of the songs here. They tell stories of border-crossings gone horribly wrong.
From the song "Respeto":
Para cruzar la frontera / Me puso en la caja de un trailer / Allà compartà mis penas / Con otros cuarenta inmigrantes / A mi nunca me dijeron / Que esto era un viaje al infiernoTo cross the border / I was put in the back of a trailer / There I shared my sorrows / With 40 other immigrants / They never told me / That this was a trip to hell (my translation)
Be warned, Mexicans! Cross the border and enter hell! Nobody's gonna accuse the Border Patrol of subtlety. Every song ends in disaster. Men die, women are raped, children are murdered. If this were released in the US, they'd probably put a warning label on it.
The radio stations have been playing the songs and the response has apparently been positive. After all, la frontera is a very real part of the culture and many border-crossings do end tragically. These stories articulate familiar fears. But the public doesn't realize that they're listening to propaganda paid for by la migra. The Border Patrol plans to expand the program further into Mexico and other Latin American countries.
2009-02-10 22:19:54 UTC