- Carcass adds to chupacabra lore in Texas- Man, I LOVE the word carcass. Carcass, carcass, carcass. Thank you, Augustus!
- Ghost in a bottle: Yours for $20- The bottle prominently displays an “open at your own risk” label. Thanks, Mike!
- Women break an all-male Mount Athos ban- “Four Moldovan women accidentally violated a 1,000-year-old ban on females entering the all male monastic community of Mount Athos, when they were left on Greek shores by human traffickers.” Luckily, the monks forgave them. Thanks, Schnacky!
- Iraqis claim Marines are pushing Christianity in Fallujah- Oh yes, just what the Middle East needs, increased religious tensions brought on by foreigners. *headdesk*
- How Rock Band can save your dignity- I love Amanda’s rebuttal to this Salon article.  Seems like all too many couples struggle to find activities to do together. In our house, we rock the Guitar Hero.
And hey, here’s a bonus quickie since Elyse and I were both so taken with ghosts-in-a-bottle: Aliens is 4 realz! A video is going to be shown in Denver today that features a living breathing alien. Thank you, Benjamin!
Occupiers pushing Christianity in a middle-eastern country? Dare we whisper it?… *crusaders*….
If that’s the case, maybe they really don’t belong together.
This is why I like you, Donna, you say it like it is.
“In the middle is my carcass,
And I always dress my carcass
In the best from Nieman Marcus
(That’s a big store in Big D)”
I wish I had known before I wasted all those years at college that all I needed to be considered an expert was open a gift shop.
I LOVE carcass too.
Carcass, carcass, carcass.
You can’t spell carcass without ass.
You know, I actually feel a bit sad about the Mount Athos thing. I can see the scene now: Bunch of the guys hanging out on the mountian in the underpants and t-shirt, slurping their beers, watching the game, eating nachos, crisps and bar snacks. No coasters, no cleaning up etc for 1000 years. Until some Moldovan Babushkas turn up and start haranging them about the stains on the carpet and 1000 years of beer cans piled up behind the sofa.
It looks like the last place a bloke can get away with doing nothing more productive than the Times Crossword, showering ocasionally, wearing the same t-shirt for a week and drinking beer at work at 9am is academic science thank god
Is it sad hat I wanted to reach through the computer and slap some sense into that Salon chick? I mean, seriously, the man was shooting Nazis! What in the universe could possibly be more important that that?
I lucked out on that front – CoV somehow manages to qualify as a spectator sport in my household… OK, so around here, we’re all a bunch of softies who are perfectly happy just to cuddle and watch each other have a good time, but don’t let on you know, I’ve got a reputation to uphold around here.
It’s deeply saddening and disturbing that the Mt. Athos story is treated so lightly. For one thing, it was posted in the “Oddly Enough” section. It also focused on the ‘violation’ of a religious site. But what is most disturbing is that the fact these women were being trafficked. Sure, it was noted, but basically glossed over.
When the story is so lightly treated – as though the reader is supposed to have a laugh – as a ‘violation’ of some archaic and misogynistic religious rule, and not as the serious story of human trafficking and the dumping of people like jetsam from a boat (as though they were considered to be no more than mere rubbish to be disposed of) the world is seriously fucked up.