Bettie Page, the notorious
Bettie Page, the wholesomest stripper the world has ever seen and probably the original model for BOTH Betty and Veronica, is hospitalized in critical condition in Los Angeles after a heart attack. The 85-year-old legend is reported to be in a coma at an unnamed LA-area hospital.
Here is some video of Bettie [...]
No post today, just this link to those who’ve given their lives in the Canadian mission in Afghanistan so far. And here are a couple of different links to one who didn’t.
And a re-post from July 2nd of last year:
Instead of racking my brains to come up with a (likely inferior) way of expressing my [...]
I didn’t write this, Lennie James did, but I’m glad to have this opportunity to pass it along (an Open Letter is Open, right?). This appeared in the Guardian a few days ago, but realistically I can’t think of a time or place in any city that this wouldn’t be important to read.
To whom it [...]
Here is some video footage of the actual earthquake in Chendu, shot by a student at Sichuan University. Anybody understand the language? Although I imagine most of the remarks are of the “Oh shit” variety.
The CBC is reporting a minimum of 8500 fatalities from the 7.8 magnitude quake, which centered on [...]
Okay, so now we’re up to (I think) five worthwhile things on LiveJournal. This just might be the greatest of them all: nothing less than Quentin Tarantino’s genre-busting post-intellectual masterpiece Pulp Fictionas the Bardhimself would have written it.
And he would have, you know. Everybody knows what playwrights will do for money.
From Metaquotes:
ACT I SCENE 2. [...]
In Gerdec, Albania, a series of explosions at an old munitions depot has killed at least five people (estimates range as high as 160, but the total is sure to be considerably larger than reported so far) and injured over 200. The blasts were so powerful that they were heard over 200 kilometers away, in [...]
Unfortunately, the video is marred by the incessant nattering of a group of twangy Australian talking heads, some of whom grin in the most merciless fashion while discussing Nick Drake’s suicide and Heath Ledger’s depression, no doubt thinking all the while of their ratings. If I find a version without them, rest assured I will [...]
Pivot Report Finds Kids Lost in Child Protection System
Vancouver, February 20–The plight of British Columbia’s poorest children is the focus of Pivot Legal Society’s new report, Broken Promises: Parents Speak about B.C.’s Child Welfare System. Based on interviews and affidavits from service providers, social workers, lawyers and, in [...]
Seriously, seriously, I thought I was doing well. I mean, not great. Not epic. But, well, well.
Well, enough.
I got two paying blogging gigs. I get enough blogging students to get by. The immoveable object in my living room appears to be moving towards movement, or making a move towards moving towards movement, which is what [...]
There’s only one story in the world today, as far as my people are concerned.
Go to Hazel’s to hear it.
I will tell you how I come into it later.
‘WILL THEY REMEMBER ME WHEN I’M GONE?’
MISSING
By Susan Musgrave
Missing’s a word that can’t begin to describe
the way I miss you more each [...]
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