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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
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8:52 pm
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Awesome, TCM is showing movies about people in mental hospitals all night. I would've chosen different ones, but should still be fun to watch while drawing.
Made Panang curry with fake meat, real broc and mushrooms, and local tofu, with homemade beer!
Oh, wow. I still have a LiveJournal!
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(7 let me taste them | Slip out of those wet panties)
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| Saturday, September 26th, 2009
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12:22 am - Fucking Fantastic. Well done, Carl. And I thought you were dead.
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| Monday, September 7th, 2009
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1:08 pm
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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9:35 pm
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| Sunday, April 26th, 2009
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7:07 pm
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| Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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9:30 pm
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So... a side comment made during the thick of battle on 'Iron Chef,' possibly poorly translated, led me to believe that one of the chefs marinated raw meat (in this case, ox tail) in strong alcohol (in this case, Japanese shochu) in order to kill the harmful bacteria often present in raw meat and thereby more safely serve it raw. Does anyone know if there is any validity to this technique? I like meat alright, but only really love it raw. And raw meat soaked in shochu? That just sounds too ridiculously good to actually work...
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(3 let me taste them | Slip out of those wet panties)
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| Saturday, April 11th, 2009
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1:17 pm
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Going to see this tonight
Night Shade Shadow Theater
April 3-5 & 10-12
8 PM Sharp! / PG-13 (Strictly enforced!)
$10 General - $7 Working Artists in advance / $12 at the door
Tonight's show (Saturday 4/11) is SOLD OUT!
Recent NYC transplants Night Shade push “puppetry” to an entirely new realm; their masterful show incorporates more than 400 intricately rendered cut-outs and blends illustration, shadow puppets, masks, objects, music and light into a form of cinematic shadow theater. It’s live animation so spectacular and realistic, it’s for adults only!
Join Night Shade for a full evening performance of three evocative shadow-theater tales—HAUNTED PROJECTILE, ORDER OF WOLF and CARRION—as they convert Disjecta’s grand gallery space into a supernatural palace of shadows, fantastical sea-creatures, haunted towns and vicious demons in vivid, 3-D detail.
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(Slip out of those wet panties)
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| Sunday, March 8th, 2009
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1:20 pm
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| Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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1:47 pm - Michael Gira
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| Monday, March 2nd, 2009
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8:38 pm
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| Sunday, March 1st, 2009
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6:55 pm
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| Monday, February 9th, 2009
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1:59 pm
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I forgot to mention -- The other day, I saw a guy riding a motorcycle wearing black samurai armor, complete with the metal face protector under the helmet. Awesome.
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(Slip out of those wet panties)
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| Saturday, January 31st, 2009
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1:57 am - One of us
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Just realized that Harry Earles, the midget in Browning's Freaks, was also in a handful of Laurel & Hardy and Our Gang shorts! Am watching them all again now, instead of going to bed...
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(Slip out of those wet panties)
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| Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
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10:46 am - The Boys (and Girls) From Brazil
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Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele 'created twin town in Brazil'
The Nazi doctor Josef Mengele is responsible for the astonishing number of twins in a small Brazilian town, an Argentine historian has claimed.
One in five pregnancies in the small Brazilian town have resulted in twins - most of them blond haired and blue eyed
By Nick Evans in Buenos Aires, Telegraph.co.uk, 21 Jan 2009
The steely hearted "Angel of Death", whose mission was to create a master race fit for the Third Reich, was the resident medic at Auschwitz from May 1943 until his flight in the face of the Red Army advance in January 1945.
His task was to carry out experiments to discover by what method of genetic quirk twins were produced – and then to artificially increase the Aryan birthrate for his master, Adolf Hitler.
Now, a historian claims, Mengele's notorious experiments may have borne fruit.
For years scientists have failed to discover why as many as one in five pregnancies in a small Brazilian town have resulted in twins – most of them blond haired and blue eyed.
But residents of Candido Godoi now claim that Mengele made repeated visits there in the early 1960s, posing at first as a vet but then offering medical treatment to the women of the town.
Shuttling between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, he managed to evade justice before his death in 1979, but his dreams of a Nazi master race appeared unfulfilled.
In a new book, Mengele: the Angel of Death in South America, the Argentine historian Jorge Camarasa, a specialist in the post-war Nazi flight to South America, has painstakingly pieced together the Nazi doctor's mysterious later years.
After speaking to the townspeople of Candido Godoi, he is convinced that Mengele continued his genetic experiments with twins – with startling results.
He reveals how, after working with cattle farmers in Argentina to increase their stock, Mengele fled the country after fellow Nazi, Adolf Eichmann, was kidnapped by Israeli agents.
He claims that Mengele found refuge in the German enclave of Colonias Unidas, Paraguay, and from there, in 1963, began to make regular trips to another predominantly German community just over the border in Brazil – the farming community of Candido Godoi.
And, Mr Camaras claims, it was here that soon after the birthrate of twins began to spiral.
"I think Candido Godoi may have been Mengele's laboratory, where he finally managed to fulfil his dreams of creating a master race of blond haired, blue eyed Aryans," he said.
"There is testimony that he attended women, followed their pregnancies, treated them with new types of drugs and preparations, that he talked of artificial insemination in human beings, and that he continued working with animals, proclaiming that he was capable of getting cows to produce male twins."
The urbane German who arrived in Candido Godoi was remembered with fondness by many of the townspeople.
"He told us he was a vet," said Aloisi Finkler, a local farmer interviewed by Mr Camarasa. "He asked about illnesses we had among our animals, and told us not to worry, he could cure them. He appeared a cultured and dignified man."
Another farmer, Leonardo Boufler, said: "He went from farm to farm checking the animals. He checked them for TB, and injected those that were infected. He said he could carry out artificial insemination of cows and humans, which we thought impossible as in those days it was unheard of."
But the Nazi eugenicist did not concentrate on animals alone.
A former mayor and town doctor, Anencia Flores da Silva, set out to try to solve the town's mystery. He interviewed hundreds of people, and discovered one character who crept on cropping up: an itinerant medic calling himself Rudolph Weiss.
Dr da Silva said: "In the testimonies we collected we came across women who were treated by him, he appeared to be some sort of rural medic who went from house to house. He attended women who had varicose veins and gave them a potion which he carried in a bottle, or tablets which he brought with him. Sometimes he carried out dental work, and everyone remembers he used to take blood."
The people of Candido Godoi now largely accept that a Nazi war criminal was an inadvertent guest of theirs for several years in the early 1960s. The town's official crest shows two identical profiles and a road sign welcomes visitors to a "Farming Community and Land of the Twins". There is also a museum, the House of the Twins.
While the twins birthrate varies widely in different countries, it is typically about one in 80 pregnancies – a statistic that has left Mr Camarasa certain in his claim that Mengele was successfully pursuing his dreams of creating a master race, a real-life Boys from Brazil.
"Nobody knows for sure exactly what date Mengele arrived in Candido Godoi, but the first twins were born in 1963, the year in which we first hear reports of his presence," he said.
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| Sunday, January 18th, 2009
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6:23 pm
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| Monday, January 12th, 2009
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10:14 am
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| Sunday, January 4th, 2009
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5:42 pm - "Are We Going To Play With Our Friends' Balls Today?"
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| Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
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3:14 pm
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| Monday, December 22nd, 2008
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10:14 am
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Performing monkeys attack trainer with sticks!
"Three performing monkeys turned on their trainer in China after he beat one of them with a stick.
When one of the monkeys refused to ride on a child's bicycle in a street performance in Sizhou, in eastern China, their owner beat it with a stick.
Although they were tied to the man with ropes attached to their collars, the monkeys appear to have decided to fight back.
The two animals came to the defence of the third monkey, grabbing the stick from the man, pulling on his ear and biting his head.
When he dropped his cane, one monkey snatched it up and began beating the trainer on the head until he broke the stick, witnesses said.
The dazed trainer told his audience: "They were once wild and these performances don't always come naturally to them. They may have built up some feelings of hatred towards me."
Local police are apparently investigating allegations of animal cruelty and may confiscate the monkeys from the man.
Performances with monkeys are a common sight in markets and squares in China, but the treatment of the animals is frequently criticised by animal rights organisations."
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| Friday, December 19th, 2008
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12:56 pm
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Colorado Doctor Finds Foot In Newborn's Brain
"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs family is part of one of the strangest cases in medical history.
Dr. Paul Grabb, a pediatric brain surgeon, said he was surprised when he discovered a small foot growing inside the brain of 3-day-old Sam Esquibel.
"The foot literally popped out of the brain," Grabb told TheDenverChannel Wednesday.
When Grabb performed the life-saving surgery at Memorial Hospital for Children in Colorado Springs, he was in for another surprise: he also found what appeared to be parts of an intestine in the folds of the infant's tiny brain, in addition to another developing foot, hand and thigh.
"I've never seen anything like it before," Grabb told the Colorado Springs Gazette. "It looked like the breach delivery of a baby coming out of the brain."
Sam was delivered on Oct. 1, within hours of an ultrasound that showed what appeared to be a tumor developing in the brain of the fetus. Three days later, Grabb performed the surgery to remove it.
The reason for the strange growth was not clear at first. It was thought to be a teratoma -- a congenital brain tumor composed of foreign tissue such as muscle, hair or teeth -- or a fetus in fetu, which is a developmental abnormality in which a fetal twin begins to form within the other.
Grabb, the only pediatric brain surgeon in southern Colorado, said that the formal pathology report identified the mass as a teratoma because of how perfectly formed the structure was but there is a fine line between that and the fetus in fetu.
"So it's unclear if a fetal twin began to form within another," Grabb said.
Grabb said he sees a teratoma once every few years but it doesn't compare to Sam's. Teratoma tumors do not usually grow as complex as a foot.
"You show those pictures to the most experienced pediatric neurosurgeons in the world, and they've never seen anything like it," Grabb told the Gazette. "This is completely abnormal."
Grabb said neurologically, Sam is expected to do well. Sam's brain tumor can come back so he will be monitoring that in the months and years to come."
Rest of story (with small video) here
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