I suppose there were times in my pre-Chatroulette life where I was “bored,” but, um…never this much!
Boynton Beach police said a 37-year-old man called a California police department and said he was raping a teen because he was bored. Paul Hartness was charged with filling a false report of commission of a crime. Redding, Calif., police said Hartness called a non-emergency number Thursday and said he was in the process of raping a 15-year-old boy at a Days Inn hotel. Police searched all local hotels but were not able to find Hartness.
Officers were then able to trace the phone number to Farnworth Drive in Boynton Beach. Redding police then called Boynton Beach police who found Hartness at his home. Hartness told police he made the phone call because he was bored and had not actually raped a 15-year-old. Police said Hartness has behaved similarly in the past.
Click here for the disturbing audio of Hartness’s phone call.
Los Angeles beat wizard Flying Lotus, Steven Ellison by day, unveiled his latest offering Cosmogramma
As if creating a 2010 musical highlight is not enough, Lotus also debuted a “free augmented reality application” called Fieldlines to celebrate the release. Developed by Aaron Meyers based on the album’s original artwork by Leigh McCloskey, Fieldlines allows you to move planets and create a new universe with the touch of a mouse. All to the sounds of Flying Lotus and harp player extraordinaire, Rebekah Raff. If you are in the Los Angeles area, not one but two record release parties are happening at the Echo Plex in Echo Park Friday May 14 and Saturday May 15. Both are not to be missed!
Is it weird this made me smile?
(via Nerdcore)
Christ on a crutch !
via MassLive.com :
NORTHAMPTON - A 20-year-old Pittsfield driver was cited by police Tuesday after she ran down Lord Jesus Christ in a marked crosswalk at Main Street and Strong Avenue, police said.
Brittany E. Cantarella was cited for a crosswalk violation, said Northampton police Capt. Scott Savino.
Christ, 50, of Belchertown, was taken to Cooley Dickinson Hospital for treatment of minor injuries following the 3:30 p.m. accident. He was treated at the hospital and then released.
Cantarella was making a left turn from Strong Avenue onto Main Street when her car, a 2005 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, struck Christ.
Christ was in a marked crosswalk at the time of the accident, Savino said.
Savino said officers checked Christ’s identification at the scene and confirmed it was his legal name.
Lord Jesus Christ suffers minor injuries in downtown Northampton crosswalk mishap
thx Ned Raggett !
Awww, nice old doggie. Hope it got a treat after doing this silly trick.
thx Brian Morishita !
Jamie Hartly writes: “This is a video I’ve made for a band called Treasure. I wanted to make something sweet and romantic with the footage from the Pam and Tommy sextape.”
Australia’s 21.C, edited by Ashley Crawford, was probably the best magazine of the ‘90s—it was my favorite at least—and to be profiled in its pages and later to contribute to it, was an lot of fun for me.
21.C was the most unabashedly intellectual and forward-thinking journal that I have ever seen, anywhere. And it was a striking and beautifully designed product to hold in your hands. Each issue was finely crafted, I must say. To have my own writing published alongside the likes of Erik Davis, Mark Dery, Greil Marcus, Hakim Bey, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, R.U. Sirius and Kathy Acker was an honor. I also met Alex Burns via Ashley and Alex, of course, went on to edit the Disinformation website for many years.(I wrote about art for 21.C’s sister publication—also edited by Ashley Crawford—the quarterly glossy World Art. I know that I wrote an article about the product design of the Japanese pop combo Pizzicato 5, but I can’t remember what else.)
Now 21.C is back as an online magazine. There’s also a lot of still interesting archival pieces on subjects such as William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson that readers of this blog will find very interesting, I’m sure. There’s an interview with me from 1996 conducted by R.U. Sirius where I tell the nutty story of how Disinformation was started. Welcome back 21.C!
Nothing inspires fear and loathing like TV producers. Here’s a 2002 contract that Hunter S. Thompson had a rather poor reaction to…
Via The Live Feed.
“Leave it to a man to figure that one out,” said my lovely wife to the news that a Japanese researcher has discovered that certain sounds—even ringtones—can have a physical effect on the body, even causing women’s breasts to grow larger. From Noise Addicts:
In Japanese cities, people use cell phones. A LOT. It’s not uncommon for people in Tokyo to hear their cell phone ring 20-40 times per day. Hideto Tomabechi, one of the guys who helped deprogram members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan, has embedded a sound in a ringtone that fools your mind into interpreting it as a crying baby.
The hypothesis is that if women’s minds and bodies respond to the ringtone in the same way that they are known to respond to a real crying baby, then they will experience the same physiological effects as if they heard the real thing. If it’s heard often enough, over time their breasts will grow.
If you’re a man and aren’t to thrilled about the idea of getting larger breasts, he also has ringtones in the works that he claims will improve your memory, make you more attractive to the opposite sex, cure baldness, and help you give up smoking. It’s all about the ringtones, baby.
What, now you want a copy of the ringtone to secretly put on your girfriend’s phone (or maybe you just want to hear it)? Here you go
I love how the ringtone is called “Rock Melon”! It’ll rock yer melons all right…