pic o’ the day: horse rescue!

Stolen from Bridlepath which reported on the original rescue and the prize-winning photo:

Dutch horse rescue photo

Photographer Laurens Aaij was awarded the Zilveren Camera 2006 on Monday, an award that recognises the best news photo from the past year.

He took the winning photo at the end of October in the Friesland village of Marrum, where more than a 100 horses were left stranded by flood waters.

The photo, with a white horse in the centre, was described by the jury as a symbol of hope. “Standing proud amid a muddy misery.”

It was judged the best photo from 9,147 entries.

a writer’s life for me!

Stole this from Curtis at Can’t See the Forest. Someone alert Gawker: How did my biography get on the web already? Must be a leak somewhere; when in doubt, blame Judith Regan.

A writer's life for me! Cuz I be stupid, yo

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smoking room decor!

Smoking room

Now that is how you motivate people to quit!

Stolen from Know HR Blog, via The Snug

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an introduction to crazy Japanese horror movies

So, how strange is this film? Here’s a pull quote from the review:

Life’s not all about singing and being peed on by strange monsters”

Stole this from Japanprobe, of course; it originally comes from The Hopeless Romantic and His Adventures in Japan, a longwinded or at least longtitled blog if ever there was one. Said H.Roma is all excited because not only has he done the following, and perfect, review of the travesty which is A Journey to the Drifting Classroom schlockfest, but he’s also scored an interview with one of the child actors who made such an unforgettable impression in those tightly choreographed routines and superfly Eighties duds. Alas, not the one who tries to fuck his own mom. Not the one with the leopard-print bomber jacket who gets the nobody puts Baby in the corner moment. It’s the black kid with the racist piggy bank! How exciting is that?!?!?!?!

Now pay close attention, children; there will be a test next period.

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the most improbable meme in the world soldiers on

Zounds!

From raincoaster to Archie…from Archie to Metro…the madness marches, tagless. Is there no end to this insanity? No abbreviation of this alliteration? Nay, not so but constant consonance.

SriusLEE, had I known Metro‘s favorite Shakespearian play was Macbeth, I’d have hesitated longer before accepting his hospitality. Truly, Lord and Lady Macbeth stand as a shining and eternal example of all that a host and hostess should not be. But I went anyway: if he’d only told me they had no gin, that woulda been a dealbreaker.

A sliver of MacMetro‘s elegant, piercing, and tearjerking, if unhyperlinked, contribution:

Is this a blogger that I see before me,
The keyboard t’wards mine hands? Ah, now I click thee.
I posted thee, and yet I see thee still,
Art thou froze, lousy server? Not sensible
To mine heart’s broken cries? Or is this but
A pausing at the node, a short delay?
Originating from the crowded cable?
I see thee yet, in form the same
As t’other window that I now do open.
Thou mock’st my labours of an hour ago,
And the environment I blog in.
Mine fingers drum upon the veneer’d desktop
But answer comes there none, I see thee still,
Thy circling logo saith “‘Tis being published”
Yet ’tis not so, I trow. There’s no such thing!
It is the fruit of hours that hath gone
From my account.

Of course, it’s his own fault for not being on WordPress.