murder, swan love, drunk cowboys and massive lobsters

An eight-kilo, 50-year-old lobster is at a Montreal aquarium after a New England woman rescued him from the boiling pot at a Super Bowl party.

Big deal! Every year thousands of women have to rescue oversized fifty-year-old males from Super Bowl parties, because they are married to them.


Sheriffs in Virginia City Nevada, where volunteers dress up as cowboys and pose for photos with tourists, say they're more strictly enforcing a county ordinance that prohibits alcohol consumption by historical re-enactors wearing guns.

So if you want great family fun head on out to Virginia City, where people in period costumes who hopefully don't have live ammunition and aren't supposed to be drunk, will hound you for money.


Petra, a black swan in Berlin who became attached to a swan-shaped boat, has finally left it in favor of a live swan.

A swan in love with a boat? By German standards, that’s really pretty vanilla.


LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two elderly women stand accused of killing two transient men with a car so they could collect nearly $3 million in insurance money.

And I know what you’re thinking but it would actually not be a cool Pepsi commercial.

Male problems and censorship

Common male genital disorders, low sperm count and testicular cancer could all be linked to hormone levels early in pregnancy, research from the University of Edinburgh suggests.

Well, here we go again: yet another study confirming that men are inherently flawed. I was *this close* to giving dudes a go, but sheesh, who knows what kind of freak show a guy is packing down there?



Access to YouTube.com, usually readily available in China, was blocked after videos of Tibet protests appeared on the site.

In a related story, everyone is really surprised that Youtube is usually readily available in China.

Curve Magazine's Poll

Yes, Curve Magazine's website is currently running a poll to determine who is America's Funniest Lesbian. And I am in the running.

Wicked.

Is your movie's title a slogan? You have a bad movie.

Rule of thumb: if a movie's title is actually a slogan, it's probably a bad movie. That's why I don't need to read reviews to know that Never Back Down (from the people who brought you Step Up!") is a bad movie, from the people who brought you a different bad movie.

Rules, New Orleans style

When rules need to be somewhat obeyed, phrasing is crucial:



You should sort of not bring beer into this gas station.

inventive Maritimers

HALIFAX - Ottawa has announced $63 million in research money for 29 Atlantic Canadian firms. Peter MacKay, minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, said that the funding recipients show advances are being made at promoting East Coast inventiveness.

Please note that that guy from Nova Scotia who keeps claiming he invented Screech is not a funding recipient.

New Orleans Show

Some sort of flyer to follow shortly, but for now I can tell you that my New Orleans show with Dykes of Hazzard is at Balcony Music Club (corner of Decatur & Esplanade) on February 20th at 8 pm. Hooray!