George Sodini’s blog: the plan

George Sodini, the LA Fitness shooter

Yes, George Sodini, the LA Fitness Shooter. I’m going to preface this with a great big I THINK THIS IS FAKE. This is my first impression, on reading it and looking at it (one awfully plain HTML site, with not a whole lotta content NOT related to the plan to kill people at a Pittsburgh gym). The only content on that site not related to the plan looks like a thin attempt to “backdate” it and make it look like this was a long time coming. I say either he didn’t do this site and some quick-thinking opportunist who wanted to perpetrate a fraud took his best shot, OR he did do it in order to set up some kind of pity defense. Not only does the emptiness of the majority of the site ring hollow, but there is nothing personally identifying there which hasn’t already been exposed elsewhere. I’m not seeing any actual images of his personal possessions, environment, etc. All the photos but the one of him are nondescript LA shots that could have been taken by/from anyone/where.

That said, here for the record, is the plan page of the site, copied (with permission!!! Look at the footer) from the site. I forget how to look up who registered a URL and when, but I’ll check that out as soon as it comes to me.

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Thought for the day: on vegetables

Arcimboldo yo!

I’ve been thinking a lot about vegetables lately (speaking of which, today I made fun of a mental patient, cuz that’s how I roll). No, really. I have been thinking a lot about vegetables. Must be a vitamin imbalance or my blood alcohol level has dropped too low or something. Yeah, that’ll be it.

Tonight, I am thinking of sugar snap peas, otherwise known as mangetout.

Specifically, I am thinking of this: Why, when they are called mangetout, do you only mange part of them? Perhaps ella can enlighten me.

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Quiz: what flavour gum are you?

Yes, Blogthings. As you can tell, the well of ideas is running a little dry at the moment. Here, have some gum and get over it.


You Are Cinnamon Flavored Gum


You are daring, active, and a little outrageous.

You crave adventure and novelty. You like to mix things up.

Your personality is extra spicy and larger than life.

You love to have fun, and you are passionate about everything you do.

You’re definitely a fiery person, and you don’t back down from a fight.

Most people love your fire – but you can be a bit too intense at times!

You?

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A Day in the life of Vancouver

Remember Blogathon? That series of 51 posts in 24 hours that I pulled off a week or so ago, just before basically collapsing for a week with the flu (or it may have been a pizza and jellybean hangover)? This is what the sky looked like over Vancouver that day. Sure, it’s pretty for most of the time, but you really need to be patient and let the video play till just AFTER the sun’s gone down to get the full effect of the Saturday before last. And then, the fireworks!

And fear not, loyal readers. I will be posting more regularly now that the gastrointestinal tract has settled down, allowing me to make the arduous 6-block trek to the office. Also, while the legendary Spirit Fingers is on special assignment offline, I’ve got the reins of Ayyyy.com and will be posting there daily. I’m off TeenyManolo except for occasional posts. And going to schedule daily posts at Lolebrity.net, TheShebeenClub.com, and RaincoasterMedia.com as well.

Also: anybody use Aweber? I have to get up to speed on this rather quickly.

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Palin Poetry

No, that’s not a misspelling of some random Bjork tune; it’s what the incoherent, rambling speech of Sarah Palin turned into once the immortal William Shatner got his paws on it. Behold:

From the full, delicious, transcript:

And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature’s finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it’s the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future. That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is hope and opportunity and there is country pride.

And, topical as always, Vanity Fair has already published Palin’s notes for the historic speech.

Palin says Buh Bye

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