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For those who don’t, why aren’t you watching television?
and sings. Off-key.
It’s true what Tina Turner said, that rap is a great thing because now you don’t even have to be able to sing to be a rock star. Very egalitarian.
And Jessica Delfino can’t sing, really, well, she’s about as good as I am, meaning she can’t sing, really, but she sure can write a catchy tune, and she raps pretty well for a white girl. As the fellow who put it on YouTube says, “Such a pretty face, such a dirty mouth.” Definitely a winning combination, now as ever.
But is it porn?
I came to the vid from The Apiary, who titled it “Dicks at YouTube Don’t Care Much For Jessy Delfino’s Vagina” via Gawker, who headlined it “YouTube Hates Vaginas.”
CONTROVERSIAL SINGER-SONGWRITER Jessica Delfino‘s latest chart-topping single[sic, I’m supposing this is a joke], “My Pussy Is Magic,” has been expunged from the pages of YouTube. The video–a virtual palimpsest [also sic; I have no idea what they think this word means] of stark images of Jessica tunefully fluttering in front of stark images of vaginas–was banned this morning.
And restored in a coupla hours. There’s something to be said for being Gawked and Aped and (as would have happened inevitablybut is at this moment only waiting in the wings) BoingBoinged and Farked.
As Jessy said on YouTube:
If God had meant us to be naked he would’ve made us that way. Naked women is not porn according to law, so YouTube should move to Iran where it is a crime. Neo-Nazis are bad people.
She may be a little upset. And from her blog:
This morning, “My Pussy Is Magic“, the new dance hit video by me, Jessica Delfino, was removed from Youtube.com for being considered “inappropriate”! Inappropriate my ass! If anyone saw the video, they saw lots of vaginas. Since when are vaginas inappropriate? I came out of a vagina, and so did the makers of Youtube.
The video had reached 20,000 views, and then was removed this morning.
Youtube was bought by Google, and now my poor, rising video was crushed. Does Google censor art!? Write to them and ask!
Well, that pussy is back. Power to the Pussies!
Pussies want to be free.
The possibility exists that the Metropolitan Police are way ahead of me on this one, but the possibility also exists that they do not read Fark in London and thus have no clue.
So to speak.
Situation: the Guardian reports that the British police are looking for a sexual predator who specializes in the attacks on the elderly. They’ve got DNA, and they’ve traced it to a black guy from the Windward Isles of the Caribbean, although no specific black guy.
“We believe there may be links down the generations between our suspect and countries of the Caribbean. We know the offender has periods of non-offending that may suggest he is not always in the UK.”
The majority of those targeted were in their 80s – the oldest was 93. Most of the victims were women, although police revealed yesterday that 10 of those burgled were elderly men, one of whom was sexually assaulted.
The first offence linked to the attacker was in 1990, the latest in February 2005, and there could be more victims who have not come forward. In some cases, detectives only found out from family members after the deaths of elderly relatives that they may have been attacked years earlier.
Sordid and nasty enough, but there’s more.
All of the victims were emotionally scarred, of course, as victims of rape and other sexual assaults always are, but some were physically severely injured as well, and at least one has died as a result of the injuries. The police are now trying to – get this – pluck at the shrivelled heartstrings of the perpetrator, in hopes that the guilt burden will force him to confess, perhaps by blinding him to the fact that a cop isn’t the same as a priest.
Detective Superintendent Simon Morgan said, “I would appeal to this man directly and say ‘Give yourself up. Your crimes have caused so much pain and misery to so many people. You know who you are. You know you need help. You know you have to stop’.”
Yeah. You know that’s gonna work.
Not to give up on the Oprah Strategy employed by the Brits, but I’d suggest trolling Fark once in awhile, because sometimes you can find some pretty useful stuff there.
Stuff like this:
A man convicted of trying to rape an 83-year-old woman was sentenced to eight lashes with a cat-o’-nine-tails, a punishment used by the British Navy in the 18th century and reinstated in the Bahamas 15 years ago.
Altulus Newbold, 34, was sentenced on Friday to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of burglary, attempted rape and causing harm…
Newbold was accused of breaking into a woman’s home on Cat Island in July 2004 and trying to have sexual intercourse with her. The woman told the court that she grabbed Newbold‘s genitals and “mashed” them. He bit her to make her let go and then fled the scene.
No thanks necessary. Although donations, particularly of chocolate, won’t be turned back.
Full version:
Mortician risks life to save corpses from burning funeral home.
Here’s to you, Mr. I Take My Job Too Seriously Guy
I suppose it coulda been worse: it could have been a crematorium! via Fark, of course. Who else would come up with a headline like that, eh?
INDIANAPOLIS — Saying they wanted to spare families even more pain, two Indianapolis morticians went back inside their burning funeral home to try to save bodies.
The pair rolled out caskets containing bodies as firefighters aimed their hoses at flames at the rear of the funeral home. They managed to retrieve three bodies before the flames became too intense for them to go inside.
After the fired died down they returned for the seven remaining bodies. None was damaged.
Yeah, but were there any survivors?
Verbatim, from the help forums:
As some of you know, I’ve been trying to raise money to pick up a laptop. I have a new job (which one day I’ll have the time to talk about) and it’s been keeping me away from the schools where I normally do my online volenteering. With a laptop, I would have a lot more flexability to access the net and spend more time trying to help folks. Right now, I’m lucky to get less than an hour a day and even that’s tight.
I’ve set up a collection over at fundable. I’m trying to raise $650 to pick up a laptop and I need your help. Right now, I have raised a total of $610 with a due date to raise the rest Tuesday evening. I’m down to the last 28 hours.[Update below]
If I can’t come up with that last forty bucks, all of the pledges go back and I don’t get anything off of it. That would mean I would have to start over again from the beginning and right now, that’s not in my budget.
I’m hoping at least 4 people will step forward and pledge ten bucks a piece. That way I can continuing helping folks online with all of the projects I do. Receipts will be provided and posted online. I’ll even take pictures.
Thanks for your assistance,
-drmikeedit: Please remmeber that I don’t get paid for any of this. :)
Update:
The site is secure and there’s an 800 number as well.
We made the goal (It’s still showing as 76 – 99% for me as well and I didn’t get any emails on the newest donations either. Something may be up on the site) and I want to thank you all.
Short story is one of the churches I volenteer with has been “taken over” by one of the larger mega churches here in town and they’re going to rebuild it as an inner city mission church. They asked me to come onto staff as the “Morning Volunteer Coordinator” (How ever you spell that) which means I’m there from about 6am until I finally have all the fires out in the afternoon. The community college that I use for my internet access is basically telling me that my access to going to start becoming limited and it’s about a 2 hour bus ride out to the university to use their computers. (I can only have dial up at my apartment and that’s pretty much useless.)
You are free to post it on your own blogs if you wish. We still have a few hours. I have a laptop sort of picked out but anything extra will give me a bit more leeway to play with. (I really would like a gig of memory on this machine)
