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Hi folks - I don't know if anyone still stops by here, but for those who may still care: I've given notice to the landlord. I'm moving.The name of my new estate is:Chai's Truly Bad FilmsOn Easter Sunday it'll be a year since my brother died, and I finally feel some urge to write sidewinding around under my skin again. Posts may be light for awhile . . . but I think I may be coming back into

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Before Leslie left town she gave me a set of keys and asked me to turn on the lights and bring in the mail while she was gone. I've posted a review of Spamalot over at her place, just to keep the pipes from freezing.Enjoy!

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Leslie was so kind to drop a sweet comment on my site yesterday, thinking that I had started posting again. What really happened was that I used my Blogger account to teach the Girl Scouts how to start their own blogs and one of them posted on Truly Bad Films by mistake.Leslie said, " Hah! I knew you'd be back sooner or later. You've been sorely missed, my friend." And her comment started me

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Well, folks - I'm moving. But shutting down TBF doesn't mean there won't be anymore Truly Bad Film reviews and other silly news.The kind gents over at LlamaButcher Palace have offered me a basement key where I can plug in my wood burner and scorch messages in pine planks until the smoke makes me dizzy and the guys yell at me to open a window. So I'm packing up my Etch-A-Sketch, my Spirograph, my

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Thank you to all who sent prayers, phone calls, comments, email and other support. You've helped me more than I can describe. I'm past the worst, thanks to my friends.God bless you!--Liz

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Dear Faithful Readers:On April 8th my younger brother died of a catastrophic stroke. Since that day I've walked around with a hole the size of a vollyball in my chest. I'm on drugs, and they are keeping me from going after him. But that's the only good thing I can say.I'm pretty sure I'll be closing down TBF. It's been a goof-bomb riot and I thank you all from the place where my heart used to be

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TBF is going on hiatus until mid-May. See ya'll then!

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There ought to be more techno-related teams since it's now "wrong" to be an Indian, Warrior or whatever. Teams names of the future will be of this ilk: the Danville Datastreams, the Burlington Binaries, and the Atlanta ATMs.It couldn't be worse than the Flames or the Wahoos and it's way better than the "Fighting Christians." (An actual former team name of Elon College, now Elon University and

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It must be the hag in me sittin' up on back legs, but I hate it when students come to ask me something and they talk in this teeny, tiny Sally Struthers voice. I want to say, "Ask in your Big Girl Voice or I'm not helping ya'!"I know there is an ingrained behaviour here trying to come across as wittle and helpless . . . but it rubs my fur wrong.

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First, I found this little gem yesterday - a well-known "raw food" specialist in New York City was arrested for exposing himself on the subway. Russell Scott Smith of the New York Times wrote a mischevious article about the troubles of nut milk-maker extraordinaire, Dan Hoyt.According to Hoyt, “There have been situations in a bar or nightclub where you’re fooling around with somebody and yeah,

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In a related announcement to Katie Couric's takeover of the CBSEvening News, sources say that the intro music for the newscast willnow be "Hag," by The Breeders:"Hag! Coastal cut-throat!You dirty switch,You're on againAll night, all night, all night..."--Posted by Pep

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Did you see this on the news last night? They're growing functional, human, internal organs in a lab in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.OMG! The Chinese will have to dump prisoner organs on the market at cut-rate prices to undermine this development. (I had to say something stupid because I'm practically speechless.)This must be the way my grandfather felt when he saw a Model T clattering down the

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As anyone who reads here often knows, I hate Katie Couric. It isn't because she's a successful woman. It's because she is a moron.Rarely have I seen stupider questions asked in featherweight interviews, than those posed by Katie PerkPerk. She's cultivated a singular talent of asking a question and then turning stone deaf while her blood meal offers up an answer, which often, humorously leads her

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My April Character Actor of the Month is Jane Lynch.Wow - does this lady work? Allll the time. You'll remember Jane from Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and most recently, as Andy's boss Paula in The 40 Year Old Virgin.She's also, less famously, appeared in Married... with Children, Judging Amy, Monk, CSI, The L Word, and Two and a Half Men.Jane is six feet tall. I'll never forget the way she was

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Let's do this Jeopordy-style:Alcoholic osteopathy and feed the daisies.The Question - What do British child actors Mark Lester and Jack Wild do these days?I was seven years old when Oliver! hit the movie theaters. It starred nine year old Mark Lester as Oliver Twist and fifteen year old Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger. Back then, whenever I saw Mark Lester, my lil heart went thunk-a-thunk. Just

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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)Last night on TCM I watched François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451. I'd never seen it before and it was really quite something. I laughed. I cried - not really. I hit my head on the futon frame.First, the Good. Even though much of it's obviously dated, Truffaut managed to make a film that still has pull. It's a very quiet film, and you have to relax into a mental state that

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I tell ya kids, I hate almost everyting I've ever seen Adam Sandler do, but he just keeps getting work and getting his name out there in the public eye more all the time, so I've come to the conclusion that he must be the Nicest Man In the World.Seriously - I think this guy has networking down to an art where he charms the crap out of people on a personal basis. This is his only talent . . . I'm

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Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time (2001)Andy Goldsworthy is a Scottish sculptor and photographer who creates emphemeral works using only natural elements. (Click here to see some of his gorgeous work.) Rivers and Tides is a documentary about Goldsworthy's work by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer.I was already a huge fan of Goldsworthy's work, but I fell in love with Andy

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Another re-post from ancient ages gone before . . . or something . . .*****Ever just sit there at work, tapping away on the keyboard when a ghost of Chinese hot mustard flits into awareness, teasing your sinuses with a memory of delicious pain, then vaporizes leaving you with this unbearable craving to line up at the local Chinese buffet? Yeah - it happens, but most of the hot mustard in central

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Back, by popular demand - a re-post of a story from a yesteryear. Enjoy!*****I know I'm a geek. That's no secret to me or anyone else. It was obvious in high school. In tenth grade art class my art partner and I made a life size papier mache Mr. Spock, hand lifted in the "Live Long and Prosper" gesture. As if you needed further proof, I was also in AP biology class, AP English and band. I played

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Happy St. Patrick's Day chirren!Have a Guinness and a leg of lamb for me. I say "have it for me" because I think I'm getting the flu and next week, through the 25th, is booked up solid in my DayMinder. I promised to put together a flyer for a Ceilidh on campus at the end of the month. I'm hosting a catered event next week to celebrate Women's History month, I'm running a badge workshop for Girl

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Dearly beloved Twigs and Buds - I just finished giving an interview to Voice of America. My site, Gifts of Speech is a Voice of America Our World Site of the Week! (It'll be up sometime in the next 14 days.)I talked with producer Art Chimes for about a half hour on the phone this morning. Believe me peeps, this is the guy you want to invite to your next party. He's a witty broadcast geek with

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Technology comes through for us gals again in the form of a site called Don't Date Him Girl!OMG - this site is a hoot & a holler. Take this description of a Cheater (they display the word "Cheater" above each photo) named Daniel:We were engaged from 10/04 to 2/05. He told me he was a Psychologist and was divorced from a woman who cheated on him throughout their marriage. He told me he had two

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Artnatomy is an awesome Flash application that lets you see the muscles beneath the face, the expressions they produce, and the meanings of the expressions. Cool fine art instruction tool!

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Story Corps is a national project to record hour-long oral histories of average people. All of the interviews will be archived in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The site tells you how to record a story at home, or you can visit a Story Corps booth at one of their locations.They're in Atlanta right now, but they will be in Raliegh on April 6th. What a cool project!

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hahaha!!! Pete went to Dollar General with his kid and had a wee bit o' fun with the Dingo Bait that was rampaging through the store. Funniest kid story I've read in a long time.

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I've been letting my hair grow in accordance with husbandly preferences. It's in that stage where it's out of control but there's nothing you can do because the whole point is not to cut it.This morning, I shampooed my head, as usual, and blow dried it without looking. Then I wandered into the next room and glanced into a mirror. I saw Eric Faulkner of the Bay City Rollers looking back at me.GAH!

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Often as not, it's character actors that I'll remember from a movie. It'll be the guy who was the "office geek" or the peasant girl's mother. I love these guys and gals because they make the whole production believeable. They aren't the prettiest people on screen, but they are the ones who grab my attention due to a weighty presence that goes beyond the limitations of the format.In honor of the

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GaelGirl sent this one in - It's advertised as a "Removable spare tire that serves a stealth beverage." The product is called the Beer Belly.Here, you can see the Beer Belly in full deployment:The copy says you can take this thing on a plane, and maybe you can, if you tell security it's a urine bladder for your catheter. But I have serious doubts you'd get it on a plane, even with Wackenhut's

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It's that time again - the Truly Bad Films Annual Woodie Awards! Break out your tuxes and your untucked shirttails. Slip into your Manolos and your Versace knockoff. Create a third personality named Sulpher (who is your personal stylist) and let her/him mousse and paint you into the next dimension - the dimension way more fabulous than this one - and come to the show.To celebrate the

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Put "teacup human skull clone" (remember to use the quotes!) into Google and who do you see at the top? TBF! TBF! TBF!!!!Woof! Woof!!!Thanks for helping me achieve my ludicrous, demented goal Peeps!

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. . . or sewer full of poo? Either way, my pal, Mr. Keysunset sent me this nice, shiny link to Entertainment Weekly's Twenty-Five Worst Sequels Ever Made.You've got to see the whole list. The one paragraph reviews are very funny. If you can think of any they missed, let me know.

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White critics dismissed his work as "Blaxploitation," but Gordon Parks was a pioneer of Black Cinema and the first black director to be funded by a major studio. His most famous film was 1971's Shaft.Elvis Mitchell talks about Gordon Parks' influence. Parks was a highly regarded photographer for Life and Vogue magazines before he went on to direct films. Perhaps his most famous portrait occurred

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LoverThe Lover (or Poet) is a rare type. (S)He has a rather contradictory nature. He is completely unselfish and generally regards others above himself, yet somehow in his effort to please, often ends up doing things that appear completely self-centered. The Lover loves people and strives for acceptance, but at the same time withdraws from the world. Lovers are authors, artists, philosophers,

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Librarians around the UK were asked which books every adult ought to read before they die. The following list resulted. I've bolded the ones I've read.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Bible by Various AuthorsThe Lord of the Rings Trilogyby JRR Tolkien1984 by George OrwellA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAll Quiet on the

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Pride and Prejudice (2005)Went to see this one yesterday. The costumes are gorgeous; the landscapes sublime. It was a joy to dissolve into this story for a couple of hours. I didn't totally buy into Lizzie's love for Mr. Darcy (maybe Keira is just not that good an actor), but I completely believed that he loved her. Donald Sutherland was fabu, as always.I especially appreciated that Mr. Darcy was

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Wilco: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002)Yet another documentary about a band. That's about the best that can be said for it. The filmmaker, Sam Jones, goes in for every trite convention of the genre, and manages in almost every scene, to make the sum less than than its parts. I love Wilco's music, but this film didn't capture anything interesting about five talented guys who make it

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Do I make too much of things? Yeah. Constantly. All day - every day. That's the way I operate. That's how I roll!Chai-rista: Making Mountains Out of Molehills Online Since 2003.So you won't be annoyed with me when I tell you that the cane-toting character of Dr. Gregory House on the Fox show House has a mythological antecedent in the demi-god Chiron.Yes! Chirren, I know it's a startling hand

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Julian was a professor at Yale when he published this book back in the 70’s. In it, he claims that ancient humans did not have consciousness like you and me. Instead, Jaynes says, the people who lived before 1000 B.C. were blindly obedient to hallucinated voices which originated in their right brains. These

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Well, Sunshines, ole Bush is in Pakistan. I hope he's alright, but I asked Pep this morning what would happen if the Taliban blowed him up real good and Cheney became POTUS.He said, "If Cheney were President, there would be a lot more people gettin' shot in the face!"So, all in fun, here's a Dick Cheney Shooting Game to play.I hope he doesn't get promoted.

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For any of you who don't already know it, I run a website which is an archive of speeches by influential, contemporary women. The site is called Gifts of Speech.Today I opened our Cafe Press shop there. Stop by and have a look!

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The boys over in the Llamabutcher shop are talking about the Enigma codes this morning. According to Ace of Spades, there are still two codes left to break. You have to stop by his site to read hilarious suggestions of what the final two codes might say.For example:TO: ADOLF HITLTER, MAXIMUM SUPREMOFROM: JOSEF STALIN, THE BOSS OF BOSSESRE: MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT WAS YOU PUNKIN ME WHEN YOU LAID

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If you are planning to join the American Taliban, please remember, Osama like hugs, not kisses.And this is older news, but of course you will also want to join Osama's book club. Peace be upon you.Smokin' cuppa for Tinkey Tonk!

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Mr. Keysunset sent me a bit yesterday from CNN. Seems a 71-year old school teacher was allowed to return to work after her male-to-female sex change. Sadly, CNN doesn't answer the kinds of questions this raises. Here are the questions TBF asks . . .Isn't it dangerous to have major surgery at 70? How is a 71 year old still teaching school anyway? And finally, how in the sweet Summer's Eve do you

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Niji Urimaki75% Adventurousness, 41% Complexity, 57% HeartinessNiji Urimaki (Rainbow Roll) - An inside-out roll with a lot going for it... And in this case a lot of different lovely slices of fish, wrapped around sushi rice, cucumber and radish sprouts. No, it's not traditional, but it satisfies your craving for a new experience with every bite. Salmon, tuna, breem, mackerel, snapper, shrimp, and

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I saw Chris Knight, the guy who played Peter Brady, pushing the AbLounge on TV the other night and . . . Dude! What happened to your eyebrows? They were super archy, extra black and sculped into a pair of hair arabesques in a way nature never accomplished. Take a look:This was the closest I could find to the AbLounge look. Notice the unrelenting bend in the brows. How is that done?Is it Secret

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Yesterday, Discovery Channel ran three shows in a row on the Kennedy assasination. I couldn't figure out why they chose to run them yesterday, but in the third show they were trying to prove that the Magic Bullet didn't need to be magic to cause seven wounds in two people. In order to demonstrate that one bullet could pierce Kennedy and wound Connally three times they went to Australia. There

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Christians didn't always allow "graven images" and Muslims didn't always forbid them.Found via Electric Venom

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A gal in her 40's walked into the diner one day last week wearing a midriff sweater that exposed a medium-sized jelly roll. Right in the center of her over-tanned belly-bulge a spangly, silver set of keys dangled from the fat below her belly-button. Since I'd never seen anyone make themselves into a walking key ring before, I did a double take.It wasn't a key ring. It was a silver "dreamcatcher"

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Even though I love listening to music and singing, I limit myself to reviewing films and books because I understand the medium. Music is a world of mystery to me. I know NOTHING about about it in theory or practice. In high school I dismembered the trumpet and vivisected the French horn every time I picked them up. Just listening to myself practice raised red welts on my patience. I read music

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Remember those ancient "hobbit" skeletons found in Indonesia about a year ago? Well, if you must, you can order a replica of a hobbit skull from Bone Clones. They aren't in the catalog yet, but if you call, you can order one for $289.This is why you read TBF! But please don't tell me what you're going to do with your model skull.(Please, please let me be #1 on Google for "teacup human skull clone

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In a 1982 article from the Atlantic, Edward Jay Epstein traces the De Beers company's single-handed advertising campaign to "teach" my mother's generation to expect a diamond engagement ring.Both women and men had to be made to perceive diamonds not as marketable precious stones but as an inseparable part of courtship and married life. To stabilize the market, De Beers had to endow these stones

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. . . from a single frame.I can't do many of these. There are only a few movies that I know frame-by-frame. Caberet is one. Thunderheart is another.Note: The script that runs the yes/no grader only works in Explorer.

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John Kricfalusi, the guy who sprouted Ren & Stimpy, and other even more disturbed animated genius from the cleft in his head, is blogging. Those of you who know what I'm talking about should check it out at once. The rest should watch more Direct TV.Hot tea in the fancy cup, china saucer and silver spoon for Elisson.

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I can always rely on V-man to teach me something new at least twice a year. This semester's lesson is a new word: Contumelious. I had to look it up, and, Chirren, it's a rare word for which I must steal to yon dictionary.So, in case you're as igerrent as me, here is the definition:Arrogantly insolent, rudely contemptuous or disdainfulWhat a firecracker of a word! Thank you V-man.You can read his

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There can hardly be any argument that Scotland spawned the stupidist sports in the world. (Sorry Brother Snackpack4000 - It's true!) They invented the caber toss, the sheaf toss, and curling. But now, curling threatens to actually become useful to the tire industry by helping them understand more about friction and ice.Like me, you might have seen curling and thought, WTF? Dudes, all that

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Recent studies show that newborn babies enjoy the sound of human voices and rhesus monkey chatter equally. By three months, they prefer human voices, but younger infants can't tell the difference.

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Apparently, all of Carlos Cataneda's disciples were beautiful women, whom he forced to cut all ties with their families. Hhmmmm. That story sounds oddly familiar . . .Anyway, he died of liver cancer instead of his body bursting into fireworks like he told them it would, and this disillusioned many of his girls, especially his adopted "daughter," who was his closest follower. He'd been diddling

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The human genome, considered as a mass, contains more retrovirus sequences than actual genes. "They're not doing anything," says Villarreal. "They're just persisting. And they were around long before humans evolved. The better part of the human genome is composed of viral DNA . . ."We haven't even begun to scratch the surface. The numbers are mind-boggling. If you put every virus particle on

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Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)I thought this film was going to be a documentary about the general condition of the children of sex workers in India. The film turned out to be about eight specific children from one red-light district of Calcutta - so it's scope was much narrower than I'd imagined, and much less factual.Zana Briski is the Director of the film and sometimes its

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As long as I'm on the subject of offensive Italian food, I'll have to say a word about risotto.Risotto, my people, is stone-ground crap with liquid caulk.Or it's polenta and pomade. I've never read a recipe, but as far as I can tell, you take about a bushel of hominy grits and boil it up with nine cakes of Bedhead Hair Mud. Then you serve it quick before it sets up into a slab suitable for

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Lots of people love cannolis. I've heard people talk about cannoli like it's God's only dessert, sent to save our tastebuds from Oreos. "Oh my Gaaaaad! Cannolis! I love cannolis!" I've heard people say. "I can't believe we're having cannolis!" And to this I say, WTF?Maybe I've never had the best cannolis in the world, but I'm hear to tell ya, from repeated experience . . . Cannolis suck! The

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I got my test kit from the National Geographic Genographic Project yesterday. The project studys non-recombined DNA in men and women. In men, they're using the Y-chromosome. In women, they're looking at mitochondrial DNA. (They have a nice graphic which demonstrates the difference between recombined DNA and non-recombined DNA. Be sure to click the radio buttons at the bottom. Their tour of

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He can kill you at least ten different ways. My fav is telekinesis.

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Steve at The Sneeze brings us his howlingly funny first hand account of making Prison Wine."I'm simply not cut out for jail. Where I really shine is watching Tivo on a couch. As soon as you need me to survive a sharpened-spoon attack, (or even a regular spoon attack)-- I'm just not your guy. Nevertheless, if I do ever end up in the big house, there's a chance I'll make it out alive as the prison

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'Member a few days ago when I told ya that a local weatherman went Pulp Fiction on Groundhog Day? Well, it turns out that the story doesn't end there.The television station has three main weather guys. Pep has always called them Rummy, Squeaky and Tweak. Rummy is the one who nearly offed himself on Groundhog Day. Squeaky is a fresh-faced cherub who always looks like his grandma just scrubbed him

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So I waited until last night to watch the Olympics. The thing that pulled me in was the promise of crashes in Snowboard Cross. I am a girl who watches the Extreme Games from time to time and one of my favorite events is Motocross. Yet, I had never heard of Snowboard Cross before yesterday.Last night I explained the premise to Pep: "See, 4 or 5 snowboarders take the course at once and as they do

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My pal Mr. Keysunset sent me a hilarious video link from the Jimmy Kimmel Show."With the 5 second delay during this year's Super Bowl, the network cut out two small sections of the Rolling Sones' half-time show; lyrics that have played on the radio for the past 30 years." So let's take a look at . . . This Week in Unnecessary Censorship!

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Rachel has chosen the top ten people she wishes Dick Cheney would take hunting.You must go read . . .

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I meant to put these up yesterday as a V-Day gift for my readers, but this week I am snowed under with planning a session for a leadership conference on Saturday, so everything is half-assed and late.Yet, better late, etc. I made three art nouveau Photoshop brushes that I'm giving to the readers of TBF. These were made in Photoshop 7. Happy After-Valentine's Day! If you don't use Photoshop

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At least once a year I give blood to the Red Cross. Blood is my way of supporting them. I'm not usually that big on giving them money. They made a pazillion dollars on Hurricane Katrina and since they define their role as "emergency responders" I'm not sure how they intend to use all that cash for people who are still in trouble. But already I wander from my topic.I've been giving blood for many

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You Are ScooterBrainy and knowledgable, you are the perfect sidekick.You're always willing to lend a helping hand.In any big event or party, you're the one who keeps things going."15 seconds to showtime!"The Muppet Personality TestHot tea in a large stolen mug for Red!

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More than one blogger, all of whom who shall remain linkless (in this post, at any rate) have been bitching and moaning about V-Day. But I'll come out of the red velvet closet and say:I love Valentine's Day!!!And it's not because I always get lots of jewelry or other gifts. It's just so red, and pink, and burgandy like wine, and velvety, and plushy and chocolate! And heart-shaped. I love things

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Ramones: End of the Century (2003) My friend Mack Paul introduced me to the Ramones when we were in college together at East Carolina University. Mack lived below me in the dorm. On balmy days the shouts of Blitzkrieg Bop floated up through my open window from his room and I smiled knowing that Mack was pogoing like a madman downstairs. I’ve loved the Ramones ever since. So When I joined

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Roanoke TV weekend weatherman Matt Lamont* just couldn't take it anymore. The hordes of screeching fans who tore at him like lions on a wildebeest as he left the WSLS station each Saturday and Sunday night, thought of him like meat. It was crazy the way women and men alike begged on their knees to pleasure him, exposing themselves and throwing bling, drugs and underwear, hoping for a glance. And

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Wayne Gretzky's wife, Janet Jones, has been doing a little sports gambling, it seems. She was in the film version of A Chorus Line but I don't remember her. Don't let that suprise you. There's hardly anything I do remember about A Chorus Line.Short Rant: I never did see what enchanted people about that play. The film was dull, dull, dull all kinds of dull and the minute it was over I'd completely

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Back in 2004, INDC Bill wrote a fairly comprehensive piece on the value of low-carb diets. I don't think it's actually fashionable to call them "low-carb" anymore. Now they're "smart carb" or something like that. Whatever you want to call them - Bill is right. They are the bomb of good health.The two Eating Plans he mentions - South Beach and Perricone - are probably the best strategies out there

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A musical message to the Danes . . . via Tinkery Tonk.And related, Democracy in a Cartoon by the man who left Islam and had the nerve to write a book about it, Ibn Warraq. Red gave me this link.

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Boy howdy, am I delightful right now? Ever since Saturday I've been getting skull-splitting sinus headaches at night and I spend all day draining in that special way sinuses have of letting you know they're dysfunctional. I'm chain sneezing and grumpy, but all that withstanding, I'm not REALLY sick.I blame it on the flu shot. I got the flu shot last fall and, apparently, it keeps me from getting

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In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)Jessica Yu directed this interesting documentary about Henry Darger, a self-taught artist who was undoubtably autistic. Darger's life was terribly hard. At the age of eight he went into an orphanage and after a few years there, he was sent to a home for "feeble-minded" children. His true condition, Asperger's Syndrome, could not be diagnosed at the time, since

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Mark Steyn of the Chicago Sun Times comments on the latest wave of Poor Impulse Control in the Islamic World in an article titled 'Sensitivity' Can Have Brutal Consequences. In part he says:Say what you like about the Islamic world, but they show tremendous initiative and energy and inventiveness, at least when it comes to threatening death to the infidels every 48 hours for one perceived offense

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Interesting photo essay on TVs in Cuba where TV is a national fetish - even though hardly anyone has one less than 20 years old. The Cubans decorate them like altars and they are always on during the "broadcast day."

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From the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page we learn that death metal singers who specialize in Cookie Monster vocals are on the way out.Cookie Monster Death was so 1994!

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Pep found this gruesome bit and sent it to me saying "Right up your alley!"Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches.

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"Never, ever leave flashlights, shampoo bottles, beer bottles or any long, circular object on the floor because someday you will fall on it and it will, somehow, work its way up your rectum." Plus other important life lessons learned by student doctors from emergency room rotations.Warning: Site loads slow.

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Alexander (2004)I was going to lift a line from Alexandra and say this movie is gay "from here to Gay Corner," but then I read Roger Ebert's review of it and he didn't think it was gay enough. Under-gay! Over-gay! I have no idea. If you have a problem with gay, you don't want to see this movie. I can say that with confidence.Now that that is out of the way, I can also say, with confidence, that I

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I LOVE Bill Murray's film Groundhog Day - and so does a Llamabutcher I know.

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Sahara (2005)Dirk the treasure hunter goes up some river in Mali (that's Africa, chillin') to find an iron-clad battleship that last saw action in the American Civil War. That sentence alone ought to tell you everything you need to know about this movie. Is it stupid? Check! So unbelievable it made me laugh? Check! Eager to please, like a Spaniel puppy, but twice as dumb? Check!And the costumes

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Peeps, do you have a pile of CDs you don't listen to anymore? I have the perfect solution. Spun, baby, Spun!Spun sells new and used "media." They make it super easy to sell yours to them for credit on their immense collection. I just got my re-mastered copy of Back in Black. In return I slap a stack of old CDs into bubble wrap, box 'em, glue on the pre-paid shipping label and off they go. They

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While we're grinding up our old Gateway desktop CPUs, let's slip on our Bluetooth-enabled snowboarding jackets and enjoy the great outdoors! There's a control panel in the sleeve that let's you switch between your iPod and your cell phone. The hood features speakers and a microphone.As an expansion of the ugly tattoo theme I introduced the other day, I was thinking about ugly piercings I have

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Found an online store that buys and sells unclaimed baggage from airlines. They only sell some of the most high-end specialized items online - it would be a lot more fun to shop there in person. But I found it kind of amusing that someone would fly with iron cookware and a designer bathroom sink in their luggage!

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. . . Watch It Shred!Mrs. Keysunset sent me a link to a company that builds mobile shredders. You want to know what they're doing with those foothills of refuse in New Orleans? They're calling in the moblie shredding guys!At the site you can watch their equipment shred a refrigerator, over-sized tires and a BMW! But the one that was most emotional for me was the clip of the computer CPUs getting

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If you have a British surname, you can find the areas of highest concentration for your name at the Surname Profiler. The North European half of my heritage seems to have lived between Galashiels and Carlisle. My folks were Southern Scots and Northern Limeys, before they migrated to the Gulf coast of Florida and the mills of the Carolinas.

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Hey kids - remember back in the 90's when everybody was getting tats? I sat at Lollapalooza in '94 and watched all the youngin's running around with their ink hanging out and I thought, "Wow - these people are going to look extra special god-awful when they get old."It seemed each and every one of the chillin there that day had spent at least $300 - seriously, that had to be the minimum - on

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Chase gives us his top 12 movies of 2005, with short reviews.

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Grizzly Man (2005)Red and Tracey have already spoken of this film in such moving terms, that I don't have much to add. I'll echo their observation that it is a deeply disturbing film. For me the disturbance came from watching Tim Treadwell's mind disintegrate right before my eyes. He was obviously deeply troubled before he stopped drinking and started getting high on bears. Herzog mercilessly

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Broken Flowers (2005)Bill Murray plays an ageing Don Juan who gets a mysterious letter telling him he has a 19 year old son who may suddenly appear on his doorstep. With the help of a next-door neighbor, who is a fanatical mystery fan, Don narrows the possible mothers of his rumored son to four. Then he embarks on a trip to visit each former-girlfriend, unannounced. It made me laugh when Don sums

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Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!In the latest expression of "democracy" in the Arab world, the Palestinians went to the polls and elected--slap my ass and call me Sally--a government of Insane Muslim Religious Lunatics. Hamas. In a rout.Shocked. Shocked, George Bush is. I mean, who'da thunk, right? Isn't the whole point of our invasion of Iraq the finding of weapons of mass...no, wait...the

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The real problem with the Million Little Pieces brouhaha is not that James Frey is a liar. It's that Oprah doesn't know good writing from dog doo on a stick.I have not read the book. The subject didn't interest me, but the excerpts I read over at The Smoking Gun are so brain maimingly awful that I saw why 17 publishing houses rejected the fiction manuscript before it made the transformation to "

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I saw 40 Year Old Virgin last night and I have only two things to say:Seth Rogen is scorchin' hot! Look at those sweet eyes! Take in his beautiful skin. And the photo doesn't even hint at the growly, adorable voice in his chest. *sigh* . . . Oh, anway - AND I thought I was going to have to lie on the carpet to catch my breath when they got the "Aquarius" scene. I screamed with laughter. My

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