Earth Dancer of the Earth!
An Earth Day video courtesy of Everything is Terrible. This makes me have Nam-style flashbacks of my undergrad years at UC Santa Cruz.
An Earth Day video courtesy of Everything is Terrible. This makes me have Nam-style flashbacks of my undergrad years at UC Santa Cruz.
Well, it might not have worked for Darby Crash, but mohawks do save lives. Look what happened to 3-year-old Maddox Tallowin:
When father Ben, 32, and mother Barbie, 33, from Kirby Cross, Essex, took the scissors to their little boy’s hair they were shocked to discover strange-looking lumps on the back of his head. They rushed him to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge where doctors told the shocked parents the bumps were a tell-tale sign of leukemia. Mr. Tallowin, 32, said: ‘It was more luck than anything else that we found it.
‘Maddox had a Mohawk haircut. He has really big blue eyes and bright blond hair and it was a cut chosen by him a few months before. But it had got too long, about four or five inches, and it was beginning to flop so I decided to shave it off. ‘The sides were short but when we touched the actual mohawk there were these bumps on either side of his neck at the bottom of his head. It didn’t feel right so we took him to the doctor.’
The youngster is now in remission and the doctors have reduced the level of leukemia in his blood but he still has to make long trips to hospital several times a week and will need chemo and intensive steroid treatment for three years.
Boy, 3, Has Life Saved by Trendy ‘Beckham-style’ Mohawk Haircut
Bush administration “torture memo” author and conservative Republican asswipe John Yoo received an appropriate and fitting tribute today.
Appallingly, UC Berkeley’s law school—one of the best in the country—employs Yoo as a constitutional law professor, but did they really expect this controversial appointment to go without constant comment at one of the most liberal schools in America? Now the bathrooms in Berkeley’s law school, Boalt Hall offer toilet paper printed with text of the Convention Against Torture, which Yoo famously shit on…
Prankster Matt Cornell replaced the toilet paper in Boalt Hall early this morning to “draw attention to the ongoing consequences of the torture memos.” His website is YooToiletPaper.com.
Extremist Yoo recently claimed that the President is legally-permitted to use nuclear weapons against civilians, massacre entire villages and to “crush the testicles” of a suspect’s child. Woo is one of those people who doesn’t get it and never will. It’s incomprehensible why Berkeley would employ a moral pariah like Yoo to train the next generation of lawyers.
Thank you—no really, THANK YOU—Matt Cornell!
Senator Harry Reid’s would-be challenger in this November’s election, casino owner Susan Lowden actually has the nerve to suggest that those without health insurance simply barge their way past reception and offer to barter with the doctor. How fucking retarded is that? What a huge gift to Reid’s re-election campaign.
thx Simon Glickman !
(Kim Jong-Un, left, beside his father, Kim Jong-Il)
How do you know you’re being groomed for something higher in North Korea? Rather than feed your own people, you organize a pricey fireworks display!
The Mainichi newspaper printed a photo of a round-faced and well-dressed man accompanying North Korea’s “Dear Leader” on a visit to a steel mill in North Hamgyong Province in March.
Kim Jong-un is being groomed to take over from his father, whom some experts believe to be suffering from the after-effects of a stroke that has been worsened by long-standing diabetes as well as kidney and heart disease. Little is known of his third son and the last photos confirmed to have been of Kim Jong-un were taken when he was in his early teens. Now believed to be in his late 20s, North Korea’s state-run media has been gradually raising his profile over the last 18 months, since his two other brothers apparently fell out of favour.
Kim Jong-un last week organised the fireworks display along the Taedong River in Pyongyang to mark “The Day of the Sun,” the 98th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the nation and Kim Jong-il’s father. Kim Jong-il was himself entrusted with the event shortly before assuming a more important role in the Central Committee of the North Korean Workers’ Party.
The lavish fireworks display is estimated to have cost $5.4 million (£3.5 million).This week, China, North Korea’s closest ally, predicted serious food shortages in North Korea in May due to a poor harvest last year. The regime reportedly requires 2 million tons of corn and other foodstuffs to stave off another famine.
North Korea: Rare Photograph of Kim Jong-il’s Heir Apparent Emerges
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch is rallying the masses, and Yoko Ono, to help in his fight against cancer by engaging in a twice-daily meditation session. From the letter sent out to the Beastie Boys mailing list:
hello,
wanted to send this out to you guys in case you were into it, or wanted to give it to anyone who you think might be.
a few friends and i are meditating at the same time twice a day. 9:30am and 6:30pm eastern standard time, for about an hour and half.
we are picturing smashing apart all of the cancer cells in the world.
we are visualizing taking the energy away from the cancer, and then sending it back at the cancer as lightening bolts that will break apart the DNA and RNA of the cells. if you have the time, please join us in whipping up this lightening storm. mind over matter…...
if you prefer to sit then sit, but if you are not used to meditating, or sitting quietly doesn’t sound like fun, put on some music and dance while you do the visualization, and if you want to do it at some other time, or picture curing some other illness that’s fine too. yoko will be joining the meditation by visualizing all of us dancing with joy to celebrate the world without cancer. all variations are welcome. this is really just being done with a wish for all beings to be cured of all illnesses and to find true lasting happiness.
i’ll also be saying prayers for the earthquake victims in tibet, so join in on that if you can too.
please feel free to pass this onto anyone who you think may find it interesting.
with all my love,
adam yauch
I’m running out of time here on the West Coast for that first round of meditation, but I’ll be there for the second. Beyond meditating for Yauch and the victims of the Tibetan earthquake, I do plan on taking it a bit further.
If the world is to be truly washed clean of “all illness,” can we not please link minds and find a way to cure it of this, and this, and oh, yes, this?! “Radio Beastie” follows below:
From Eric Wareheim’s YouTube channel: “People are in such a rush to get to the next performance nowadays. Eric Wareheim and Doug Lussenhop prefer to slow it down and take in the beauty of the grounds and the people around them. Just lil baby steps to the beat.”
Having tackled such topics as prostitution, the nature of violence, and the Imperial Valley, author William Vollmann‘s certainly navigated a few of the world’s darker corners. His just-released work of non-fiction, Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement, and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, seems like it’s going to strike that typical Vollmann balance between the bleak and the beautiful.
Here’s how Vice describes it:
As its title suggests, it is a sociological exploration of the strange, veiled world of Noh and its practitioners. The book is filled with transvestites, geishas, sex fiends of the red-light Kabukichō district, and many other interesting characters both elegant and perverted. It also marks the first time that we have read the word “neovagina.”
Vice is also carrying an excerpt from the book’s Chapter 16, “They Just Want To Look In The Mirror.” In it, Vollmann recounts his session with a makeup artist (see above photos) whose clientele includes a large number of cross-dressing Japanese businessmen:
Only about 10 percent of her customers dare to go out. They often wear femme-executive or businesswoman outfits when they come to her; a few play with lingerie, but never here; some keep secret apartments furnished with their woman things, so that their families will never know. They tend to order clothes on the internet, a circumstance which requires them to buy repeatedly before discovering a garment which actually fits; but anonymity remains infinitely more important to them than cost or convenience.
“Why do they do it?”
“Stress,” she replies. “And they have the pleasure of hiding something secret.”
Sorry, but it had to be done. In honor of 420 I give you one of the finest pot songs ever recorded. Be careful though, this will stick in your head for days.
For years now, and at GREAT personal expense, I’ve been quietly putting together a convincing Prince Charming outfit, praying waiting for the day I could sneak into Disneyland and cavort undetected with Jasmine and Pooh.
Well, thanks to Natasha Narula (above right) and her daughter, Drew, I can now kiss that dream goodbye. Hey, Natasha, next time you wanna “blend,” maybe pick something more elaborate than that shabby 40-dollar wedding dress?!
The mother-of-two told yesterday how she was left ‘stunned and humiliated’ after being ordered to return to her hotel to change when staff insisted she could not enter the complex in fancy dress because she could be mistaken for a Disney princess. She said that one of them then told her the dress was ‘too pretty’ and may be confused for a member of staff in character.
‘But I spoke to a manager and she said they were concerned children would think I worked there and wanted to have their picture with me. ‘I didn’t even have any make-up on and didn’t look anything like the characters in the park, it wasn’t like I was wearing a big Mickey Mouse outfit, it was just a dress. She was forced to change into an old pair of jeans and a shirt before she was eventually admitted to the park. Drew was allowed to keep her dress on.
The divorced mother said: ‘I was just a bit of fun for me and my daughter but we were treated like criminals. ‘The only things I had left were what I’d worn the night before so I had to go into the park wearing dirty clothes. Disneyland confirmed it had a global policy banning adults from wearing fancy dress in their theme parks. A spokesman said: ‘No one over the age of nine is allowed to enter our theme parks in fancy dress. It prevents confusion.’
Ah, yes, “confusion.” I’m sure that’s exactly what it prevents!
Mother and Daughter Banned from Disneyland…Because They Were Dressed as Fairy Princesses
My friend Matthew Lee, London food critic at large, just published this article about Horton Jupiter, a Stoke Newington DJ who converted his living room into a restaurant—sparking a trend across the United Kingdom. First person to import to the US wins.
The neighbours must find it rather odd. Every Wednesday evening since January, two dozen strangers have congregated outside a small flat on a Stoke Newington housing estate. The flat belongs to Horton Jupiter, a musician, DJ and amateur chef whose decision to open a restaurant in his front room has sparked a phenomenon. Within months, numerous home restaurants, also known as supper clubs, had popped up throughout the UK.
Using applications such as Facebook and Twitter to get the word out, these courageous cooks have dragged the restaurant industry into the social networking age. And home restaurants are, above all, social. Guests are seated at large tables, dinner party-style, and encouraged to chat to strangers. It’s a world apart from a candlelit dinner for two.
Horton had no intention of being a pioneer. ““I have a book called This Diary Will Change Your Life and each week it sets you a task”,” he explains. ““Week two was to start a restaurant in your front room, so I did.””
Red pandas are the cutest animal in existence on this planet. This is indisputable. It may not be argued. It may not be contradicted. It is fact. I don’t make these rules. I merely report them. And I report red panda sightings on the Internet:
These guys are native to the forests in the Himalayas, and there are only 10,000 to 20,000 of them worldwide. In the past they had been misclassified as being in the same families as raccoons and bears, but have recently been reclassified in a family all their own; they are considered “living fossils”, which means they’re more closely related to animals found in fossils than any living species. The people native to the red panda’s region call them “Wha” after the sound they make. They are slightly bigger than a house cat and eat a diet of mostly bamboo shoots and leaves. They spend most of the day time napping in the tree tops, and are most active at dusk and dawn.
