Daily Archives: June 29, 2007

you say tomato, I say tomahto; you say botox, I say botulinum toxin type A

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Botox, yo

A doctor in Las Vegas has been arrested for injecting into the faces of his unsuspecting patients a derivative of the deadly botulism toxin.

He has admitted injecting the patients, who came for Botox treatments, with paralyzing shots of botulinum toxin type A instead of the Botox for which they had paid. Sounds like a pretty open-and-shut case, eh?

Except for one thing: Botox is botulinum toxin type A.

It’s just the trademarked version, the brand name version. It is the same exact substance.

So what this case comes down to is, they paid for the paralytic facial neurotoxin version of Louis Vuitton and instead got the paralytic facial neurotoxin Louis Vutton. How embarrassing, to have a knockoff face!

I cynically predict it will not go to court when the patients realize their names will be part of the public record. Charges dropped in exchange for free treatments, you’ll see. Hey, counterfeit youth is addictive, as John Wyndham knew.

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paging Christopher Walken…could Christopher Walken please report to the Walls of Jericho?

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Well, now it’s official. Welcome to the End Times.

With musical accompaniment.

Well, it would have musical accompaniment, if the Archangel Gabriel (or Gabe, as we like to call him) hadn’t, in a move startlingly reminiscent of (if not actually plagiarized from) Terry Pratchett‘s scene of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse getting one of their horses stolen and so becoming the Three Horsemen and one Pedestrian of the Apocalypse, actually misplaced his trumpet in Salt Lake City, triggering a terrorist alert.

The bloody Mormons, eh? And here everybody thought it was gonna be the godless atheists that brought this down.

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lollemur!

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Oh, why not? Like you’re surfing the internet looking for Protagoras and Meaning, eh? They’re over at Manhunt.

lollemurbaby

Also, bonus “hey, rare lemur triplets born” story tacked on to pathetically justify lollemur blog filler.

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quiz: what kind of woman’s shoe are you?

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Another perfect match. I’ve actually got my eye on a nice pair of patent boots that lace up the side…if only I had somewhere to wear them!


You Are Big Black Boots!


You can be best described as: attitude

You’ve got lots of it – and you love to give it

A guy has to be pretty gusty to hit on you

But if he’s your type, you’ll warm up… a little

What Kind Of Women’s Shoe Are You?