Monthly Archives: November 2006

ad placement o’ the day

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The last thing the millionaire rapist sees will be... 

From the Sun, via Fark, which seems to have totally missed this charming juxtaposition. You must go to the site click here to see one of the adds they’ve got in rotation on this story. I’m thinking somebody’s media buyer just got fired.

Short form: imprisoned rapist Iorworth Hoare wins lottery. Upon release, moves to expensive neighborhood. Is terrorized by giant European Eagle Owl.

Hogwarts 1: rapists 0.

In related news, fellow WordPress blogger and Vancouverite Marcus Frind, president of the Internet dating site Plenty of Fish, helped the US Marshals track down one of their most wanted criminals after he discovered the man was living with a woman he’d met through the site. Not exactly the kind of publicity I’d be hammering home to the public, myself. I mean, the news that my company is cooperating with law enforcement and putting away killers = good. The news that spree killers are trolling my dating site for women = bad.

But maybe that’s just me.

sea monster dj

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Is this what DJ AM looked like before the gastric bypass?

quote o’ the day: Mencken on the presidency

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Thanks to Archie for this:

 “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken

Jack the Ripper: the wanted poster

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Have you seen this man?

Jack the Ripper, reconstituted

The Scotsman reports that police have reconstructed the face of that most infamous London serial killer. Unfortunately, they don’t report it in such a way as to explain on what basis they reconstructed it, so there is really no way of knowing how accurate this portrait is. “Profiling” is mentioned, but that, unfortunately, wouldn’t give you any more than the information he was a man in his thirties or forties, a loner, white, and probably a Vietnam vet with a fondness for Catcher in the Rye. Useful.

In any case, leather gays and Whitechapel whores are advised to stay indoors for the next few days, just in case.

celebrity deathmatch: Trent Reznor vs Puff Daddy

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