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DJ Psycho Mike spins Mash ups in Chicago, runs the Psychotronic Film Society at http://www.psychotronic.info
writes and directs film and theatre including the play and movie BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED.
He also collects wild links on the web!
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Sep 23, 2005
Surf W/A Cure For The Common Cold
FINALLY: A CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD, GOOGLE GOES INTO TV, HIDDEN ART IN DA VINCI PAINTINGS, THE CLINTON CONDOM, SNL CELEBRITY JEOPARDY, SUPERBUG HITS CHICAGO STREETS, THE BLIND DEAD SERIES!
Three Chicago-area children have died of a toxic shock syndrome-like illness caused by a superbug they caught in the community and not in the hospital, where the germ is usually found.
The cases show that this already worrisome staph germ has become even more dangerous by acquiring the ability to cause this shock-like condition.
"There's a new kid on the block," said Dr. John Bartlett of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, referring to the added strength of the superbug known as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Here's the entire collection of all 13 "Celebrity Jeopardy" episodes on Saturday Night Live. Enjoy! Some brilliant material here.
The flu vaccine, a cornerstone of public health policy, is only mildly effective in the population for which it is supposedly most critical: the elderly.
According to a study appearing in the Sept. 22 online issue of The Lancet, vaccines against influenza are only "modestly effective" in people in long-term care facilities and even less effective for elderly people still living in the community.
That research is twinned with another flu study, which found more bad news: that resistance to drugs used to treat influenza has risen 12 percent in the past decade.
This finding, the authors stated, raises questions about the government's policy of stockpiling such drugs. http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/09/21/hscout528105.html
They are called THE BLIND DEAD, heretic horsemen whose eyes were burned out to prevent them from finding their way back from Hell. Over the course of 4 unforgettable films, writer/director Amando de Ossorio created what fright fans worldwide consider to be one of the most startling series in horror history. This unique quartet of shockers delivers a relentless onslaught of creepy atmosphere, shocking violence, forbidden sexuality, and the still-chilling icons of EuroHorror: The eyeless undead who hunt by sound in their quest for human flesh. Don’t move… don’t breathe... don’t let them hear your heart beating: THE BLIND DEAD
Before we spend $200 billion on New Orleans disaster relief, can we just pause for about three seconds, please? That should be long enough to divide one number by another. The numbers I have in mind are, on the one hand, $200 billion, and, on the other hand, 1 million people—the prestorm population of the New Orleans area, broadly defined.
Two-hundred billion divided by 1 million is 200,000. For the cost of reconstructing New Orleans, the government could simply give $200,000 to every resident of the region—that's $800,000 for a family of four. Given a choice, which do you think the people down there would prefer?
http://www.slate.com/id/2126715
Great photos of Hong Kong! Hundreds of stunning shots!
Posted at 08:51 am by Psychomike
Sep 22, 2005
Surf W/ Bjork Movie Battles!
The Attempted Militarization of the Jetsons, BJORK FILM WARS, WHACKY STUPID RADIO DJ STUNT- TAKE DRUGS ON AIR, KEVIN SMITH'S BLOG!A lesser known episode of "The Jetsons" speaks directly to our current plight: the relentless but eternally floundering attempt to militarize a bourgeois society that is more interested in consumption and leisure than serving a mythical national ethos.
In the Jetsons' world of the future, people are pretty much the same as they are today, except that they have more gizmos and far more leisure time.
That's the future: it is an extension of today, just as today is an extension of everything that followed before. There is no dramatic hinge of history that causes all rules to change, as socialist or fascist or other totalitarian ideologies imagine. It is just the same old struggle playing itself out in different ways. http://www.mises.org/story/1920
Kate Moss was photographed doing LINES of cocaine in public.
She is losing work because of it.
She may now be facing arrest.
Once upon a time there were supermodels. Over 6 feet, goddesses for our rock stars.
Then this 5 foot 6 street punk comes along and not only changes our definition of beauty, but topples the "Supermodels". Without giving a damn.
She wore "vintage" clothes to an AIDS benefit in the early 80's and every thrift store raised their prices on used clothes and loads of art girls got into buying vintage.
Watching her destroy herself is very, very sad. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1970622005
Reviews of gadgets for national emergencies.
Howdy, Mike Flores here, also known as DJ PSYCHOMIKE
This is the place I'll be spinning at:
SONOTHEQUE
These are the details, Tuesday October 11, doors open at 8.
1444 W. Chicago Avenue
Check out the flyer:
Lars von Trier's film Dancer in the Dark took Cannes' top prize. But relations between the director and his star, Björk,
almost led to disaster, recalls Catherine Deneuve
Ok, it was a movie, that became a play, that has now been made into a movie. And it looks great. And Uma looks hot.... THE PRODUCERS:
How you can brighten people's lives this Halloween with Chic religious tracts! Loads of insane ideas!
The host of a new Dutch talk show plans to take heroin and other illegal drugs on air in a program intended to reach young audiences on topics that touch their lives, producers said Wednesday.
The show, scheduled to premier on late-night television Oct. 10, is called "Spuiten & Slikken," or the "Shoot Up and Swallow" show.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/21/D8COLIUG1.html
This comes to us from Brian "Prime Minister of the Sinister/ PMS, from http://www.psychotronic.info - about a giant pink rabbit on a mountainside- with photo!
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Have you ever wondered how a Madonna track would sound if she were backed
up by The Sex Pistols, or what a certain Britney Spears single would have
been like if the guys from Kraftwerk had provided the music? Imagine that
Beyonce had had a career in the 1970's, and Soft Cell had chosen one of her
tracks for their break-through hit? Here's another one: how would Nirvana
have sounded in today's electro-revival? Wouldn't you like to hear that?
Well, believe it or not, all the above recordings already exist. And so do
many more unusual combinations for that matter. It's not that these
artists have ever been secretly together in a recording studio, but rather
that their tracks have been (re)mixed without them knowing it. Welcome in
the fascinating world of mash-ups.
A mash-up is a track in which the vocals of one track have been mixed over
the music of another track. No big deal - you might think - nothing new
there, people have already been doing that for years. That's right, but a
mash-up goes a tiny bit further then the so-called "megamixes" or remixes
you're probably thinking of right now. A mash-up is a completely new track
- a track that sounds like an original recording... as if it had always
been like that... as if it was actually recorded by the original
artists. But what really makes a mash-up unique - and different from the
mixes in the past - is that it uses elements of tracks from different
genres. So it is perfectly possible to hear Madonna go punk, Britney go
electro, or Beyonce do it '80s style... Apart from using elements of
different artists who perform in different music styles, maybe the most
important characteristic of a mash-up is that the tracks being used blend
seamlessly into the new track. A track that should be at least as good as
- and in most cases, better - then the original versions. That's why it's
often called "the best music the original artists never made"...
Posted at 02:52 am by Psychomike
Sep 21, 2005
Surf W/Music Of New Orleans
FLEXIBLE GIRLS OF THE UKRAINE, JAPANESE SAMBA PARADE, THE MUMMY MUSEUM, HOW THE C WORD BECAME SO BAD, NEW QUESTIONS ON NEW ORLEANS FLOOD!
You folks owe me for this one. Buy me a brew the next time we meet. MP3's of the music of New Orleans.
If you live in California you need to know about the BLAB! Art opening. If you don't, you still need to see this cutting edge illustration work.
4000 women in Japan parade and dance in skimpy outfits for the Samba Parade!
Japanese politician comes out as a lesbian! Not ok for work.
Betty Boop, the saucy cartoon character who first appeared in 1930, is now making the rounds as the latest Hooters Girl.
Miss Boop is now appearing on a series of lapel pins for the infamous wing eatery. Ten pins are available featuring the buxom and leggy Boop in the traditional Hooters tank top and orange shorts.
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/articles/0824bettyboop0824.html
Muslims in the UK have made it clear they consider the Holocaust Memorial Day to be offensive.
http://www.reason.com/cy/cy092005.shtml
New Orleans flood- I Smell A Graft- I Mean, Rat: Louisiana's top hurricane experts have rejected the official explanations for the floodwall collapses that inundated much of New Orleans, concluding that Hurricane Katrina's storm surges were much smaller than authorities have suggested and that the city's flood- protection system should have kept most of the city dry.
The Army Corps of Engineers has said that Katrina was just too massive for a system that was not intended to protect the city from a storm greater than a Category 3 hurricane, and that the floodwall failures near Lake Pontchartrain were caused by extraordinary surges that overtopped the walls.
But with the help of complex computer models and stark visual evidence, scientists and engineers at Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center have concluded that Katrina's surges did not come close to overtopping those barriers. That would make faulty design, inadequate construction or some combination of the two the likely cause of the breaching of the floodwalls along the 17th Street and London Avenue canals -- and the flooding of most of New Orleans.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Televangelist Jim Bakker's PTL Christian Theme Park has gone to wrack and ruin. an illicit photog has crept through the ruins of this soi-dissant Jesusland and shot roll after roll of rotting Christian "amusements."
Posted at 12:30 am by Psychomike
Sep 19, 2005
Surf w/ Celebrities Singing!
WAS ELVIS REALLY CENSORED ON ED SULLIVAN?, SMELL-O-VISION PHONES, ALEXANDRA OLEYNIK, PETA AFTER COCKS, THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN!
Celebrity Showdown is a wild and crazy collection of songs sung by celebrities, some not so bad, some extremely baaaaaadddd! This is your chance to hear songs by some of your favorite celebrities of yesterday and today. In addition, I am offering up the opportunity to download only those songs that you are interested in listening to individually or you can download the whole album in one pop...
This coming Saturday on IFC you can watch a fantastic documentary on the Italian westerns of the 1960's, and two of the rarest and best films of the genre.
THE SPAGHETTI WEST features interviews with the directors and actors that have influenced everyone from John Woo to Quentin Tarrentino. It is a great introduction to the genre if you're new to it, a terrific find if you already follow the genre.
The two films, THE BIG GUNDOWN and THE GREAT SILENCE were rarely shown in the states so this is really a treat. Klaus Kinsky does the best performance of his life in THE GREAT SILENCE. Lee Van Cleef stars in THE BIG GUNDOWN which is actually a political film about corruption.
Whip up some Italian food, invite some friends, this is the perfect TV party!
What really happened when Elvis was on the Ed Sullivan show?
MetroWest used-auto dealers and a national industry group say car buyers should beware of flood-damaged vehicles making their way into the market in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"Someone is going to end up with some of those cars that have been damaged," said Mark Rizoli of Auto Village, a truck seller in Milford. "People are going to have to take extra precautions to make sure it doesn't happen to them."
Rizoli said his dealership makes sure not to buy such vehicles, which could have "major electrical issues" after sitting in water for extended periods.
"Sometimes," Rizoli said, "even the most cautious dealer will end up with (a flood-damaged car) that slipped through the cracks."
Computers will be able to out-think the entire world population put together within the next 60 years, the head of Lucent's research division has forecast.
First, though, phones will be able to tell how their owners smell, Jeong Kim, Bell Labs' president told reporters in Seoul yesterday.
Smell-o-vision phones will come in five to ten years, Kim believes, sampling the odour of the caller and transmitting it to the recipient via the airwaves and an odour-releasing device on the handset.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/15/brainy_computers/
She is from the Ukraine. Her name is Alexandra Oleynik. Whew! She is only 19. Man I sure am glad we never went to war with Russia.....
The creation of Neil Young's latest album, Prairie Wind, was punctuated by a life-changing "medical event" for the singer-songwriter.
As he was preparing to record the song "The Painter" in Nashville, Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He recorded eight of the songs before surgery for the aneurysm, and two afterward as he recovered.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4850911
Researchers in the ACT appear to have found a previously unidentified type of cannabis plant which they have dubbed 'rasta'.
There are currently thought to be only two types of cannabis, one prized for its rope-making qualities, the other cultivated for its drug properties.
Tropical Fruit World is Australia's largest plantation orchard farm and research park, an internationally acclaimed tourist attraction
PETA recently contacted the presidents of the University of South Carolina and Jacksonville State University and suggested that the schools consider changing the names of their sports teams, both of which are called the Gamecocks.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Filmmaker Melanie Perkins was 9 years old when her childhood sweetheart, Andy Puglisi, disappeared from the Higgins Memorial Pool in Lawrence, MA where the two were playing . The police investigation, recently reopened as a result of the filmmaker's research, reveals many shocking facts: there were at least five "known pedophiles" at the pool that day, and the police's main suspect was never questioned and has yet to be charged. This personal story of a childhood friendship abruptly ended explores the impact of a child's disappearance on his family and friends.
http://www.haveyouseenandy.com/story/
Posted at 11:46 pm by Psychomike
TEENS ON ORAL SEX RAMPAGE, ABANDONED BRITAIN, LANA WOOD ON HOLLYWOOD, 5TH GRADERS WHIP IT GOOD, ATOMIC CANDY, HOOTERS EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK!
THE NEWSPAPER THAT REFUSED TO DIE!
How is the paper of New Orleans still publishing?
To read the paper and find out why it is blowing away all other coverage check this out:
http://www.nola.com/t-p/
Cynthia, John Lennon's first wife has a tell all out.
And apparently she does.
This is a fascinating little "virtual tour" of the production process for Atomic Fireball spicy cinnamon candies.
Want to live on the Las Vegas strip?
Kat Moss has been caught doing cocaine in public.
Lana Wood has some Hollywood stories to tell, since she was in THE SEARCHERS, and played Plenty O'Toole in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.
Welcome to Abandoned Britain. This site documents the urban decay of Industrial sites, Hospitals, Asylums and pretty much any other interesting abandoned buildings that I happen to find!
Join us as Hank talks about the classic TV series "Car 54 Where are you?", going postal in "Three Days of the Condor", and the time OJ Simpson split his skull open.
Slightly more than half of American teenagers, ages 15 to 19, have engaged in oral sex, with females and males reporting similar levels of experience, according to the most comprehensive national survey of sexual behaviors ever released by the federal government. The report today by the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the figure increases to about 70 percent of 18- and 19-year-olds."This is a point of major social transition," James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a reproductive health organization, said yesterday. "The data are now coming out and roiling the idea that boys are the hunters and young girls are the prey. It absolutely defies the stereotype." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/15/AR2005091500915_pf.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
This is an fantastic and faithful re-enactment of Devo's "Whip-It" video performed by 5th graders. Your going to send this one around!
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2679592?showw=no&refsite=6721&htv=12&htv=12
JUST ADDED: LOADS OF ASIAN MOVIE CULT CLASSICS!
The Psychotronic Store
CHAINSAW SALE
The entire stock of the Psychotronic Ebay Store will be moved soon, and since we'd rather lose it than move it, we've been breaking out the chainsaws and dismembering our prices on all items. All prices have been cut by at least 10%, and some have been butchered 50-70%!!
Dial in to http://stores.ebay.com/psychotronic-store to check out the bargains on DVDs, VHS, laserdiscs, books, toys, CDs and collectibles. And don't forget, the Psychotronic Store is still the only place on the web to buy BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED, the movie about the world's all time #1 pin-up queen - price now slashed to $17.88 each! Combine postage on multiple orders to save even more!
YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!
Posted at 01:43 am by Psychomike
Sep 15, 2005
Surf W/ Jackalopes Are Real!
THE TASTE OF BABY FOOD, JACKALOPE REALLY EXISTS, BIG CATS IN LOVE, MARSHALL McCLUHAN: PROPHET PHILOSOPHER, MEXICAN SHOPS ARTWORK, CANADA SERIAL KILLER SHOCKER! This fellow decided to try 5 best selling baby foods and see what they taste like. Since this is the period you develope your tastebuds..... Everything Garbage Pail Kids. Really cool site. The photo gallery alone will keep you howling. It's my love of the carniceria store paintings. I've always had a fascination with them ever since I was a little kid. Seeing these somewhat surreal and fanciful paintings depicting the foods that I would be eating later that day. Taco stands, bars and restaurants will make there way on this site as well. This is my tribute to those paintings and the artists that made them... It was a shocking series of torture killings that rocked Canada. Torture killings of schoolgirls. It was done by a couple. They even raped and killed the female of the couples teen sister. The authorities presumed the pretty girl involved had to be forced into it. So they gave her a 12 year sentence to frame her boyfriend and tell what happened. Then videos were found, and to the authorities horror, it was clear she was the orchestrator of the savage killings. She is now fighting the rules imposed on her during her probation. What are these horrible rules she demands be lifted? Homolka will argue that conditions imposed on her release are too strict and violate her constitutional rights. Among other things, Homolka must report regularly to police, give them notice if she leaves Quebec and avoid communicating with violent offenders. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/09/15/homolka20050915.html
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WENDY'S WORLD
Some amazing pictures, commentary doesn't suck either... http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=14ewb3ap.b147fdut&Uy=nyvoby&Ux=1 Winchester Mystery
House http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/story.html Jackalope fans, take note: Your mythical beast really does exist! http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/jackalope.html Hayao Miyazaki's hand-crafted fables have made him Japan's most successful film-maker. In a rare interview, he talks to Xan Brooks http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1569480,00.html Meet the Joslins. Jared Joslin does wonderful paintings of carny folk and the like. Jessica Joslin does sculpture combining mechanics with taxidermy. Neat stuff. http://www.jessicajoslin.com/ Condi, may I go potty? http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050914/ids_photos_ts/r2587077477.jpg here's a shot from further
out... http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050914/ids_photos_ts/r404176213.jpg Big cats do the nasty. You know you want to see. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1536370.html A BEACHED whale was
blown up in front of horrified children yesterday after rescuers failed to get it back into deep water. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16131487&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=whale-doomed-to-die--name_page.html
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Marshall McLuhan is much more in touch with today than what he sounded like in the 1960's. He has been proven correct. Listen and be amazed.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/mcluhan.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
DJ FOOD: "RAIDING THE 20TH CENTURY" EPIC
But as usual, download fast.....
'Everything Has To End...'
"On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups. It rapidly spread throughout the web and managed to cause a full scale server crash on boomselection.info when they hosted it due to the volume of net traffic.
Shortly afterwards he read Paul Morley's recently published book 'Words & Music' and was amazed that certain chapters mirrored parts of his mix. Apart from the fact that the title, 'Raiding the 20th Century' was coined by Morley 20 years before for a future Art of Noise project, he also featured Alvin Lucier, who - purely by chance - was sampled on the opening track of the mix.
Kev decided to expand his idea to make the defnitive document on cut up music including many other parts, omitted by the constraints of the original radio session. After months of further research he tracked Morley down and they recorded passages from 'Words & Music' specially for this mix in an attempt tomarry the two and finish something that neither of them actually started. A year to the day of the original airing, the newly expanded version is ready."
http://www.ubu.com/sound/dj_food.html
Posted at 11:07 pm by Psychomike
Sep 14, 2005
GAY PENQUINS, THE LYRICS TO STAR TREK, RAY GUNS, THE KINKS ON NEW ORLEANS, KATE MOSS TO EDIT ISSUE OF FRENCH VOGUE, GENGHIS KHAN SUPERLOVER!
Genghis Khan, the fearsome Mongolian warrior of the 13th century, may have done more than rule the largest empire in the world; according to a recently published genetic study, he may have helped populate it too. An international group of geneticists studying Y-chromosome data have found that nearly 8 percent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire carry y-chromosomes that are nearly identical. That translates to 0.5 percent of the male population in the world, or roughly 16 million descendants living today. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_genghis.html
When it comes to creativity, there's good news and very good news. The good news is that the mysteries of the creative process are finally giving way to a rigorous scientific analysis. The very good news is that, with the right skills, you can boost your own creative output by a factor of 10 or more. Significant creativity is within everyone's reach--no exceptions. What's more, greater creativity breeds greater happiness. The creative process is itself a source of joy for most people. And with new creative powers we're also better able to solve the little problems that beset us daily.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1175/is_n4_v29/ai_18440951/print
Haunted Portraits welcomes you foolish mortals . Within these walls you will find a Masterpiece collection of changing portraits. Watch in amazement as the Portraits transform from their mortal state to their secret dark side as you walk by. Haunted Portraits are great for Halloween parties, haunted houses or for the person that simply loves the unusual. They will shock and surprise all that witness the eerie changes that occur as you walk by. (Mikes note: THIS IS GREAT!, check out the gallery and scroll across the images)
Sidemen, rhythm section, session musician. Forever ignored in favor of flashier lead guitars, outspoken vocalists, and virtuosos, the bass leads a lonely life stuck in the role of supporting player. Stylus, in deference to the underdog, presents some of the greatest moments when the bass player finally got some…
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1843
Great collection of space weapons for kids!
Dr. Michael Stone invented a way to classify evil. We’ve adapted it for use with your favorite stars. Enjoy. The chart of darkness!
FASHIONISTAS is one hot show in Las Vegas. Great dancing, hot bodies, couples friendly. This coupon will either cover a bottle of champagne or a cab ride to the show. Check out the website of the show too. If you know anyone going to Vegas, they need to know about this show.
In the wake of Hurricane Betsy 40 years ago, Congress approved a massive hurricane barrier to protect New Orleans from storm surges that could inundate the city.
But the project, signed into law by President Johnson, was derailed in 1977 by an environmental lawsuit. Now the question is: Could that barrier have protected New Orleans from the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina?
"If we had built the barriers, New Orleans would not be flooded," said Joseph Towers, the retired chief counsel for the Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans district. A shocking story!
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
LOT'S OF ASIAN ANIME AND ACTION FILMS ADDED!
The Psychotronic Store
CHAINSAW SALE
The entire stock of the Psychotronic Ebay Store will be moved soon, and since we'd rather lose it than move it, we've been breaking out the chainsaws and dismembering our prices on all items. All prices have been cut by at least 10%, and some have been butchered 50-70%!!
Dial in to http://stores.ebay.com/psychotronic-store to check out the bargains on DVDs, VHS, laserdiscs, books, toys, CDs and collectibles. And don't forget, the Psychotronic Store is still the only place on the web to buy BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED, the movie about the world's all time #1 pin-up queen - price now slashed to $17.88 each! Combine postage on multiple orders to save even more!
YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!
LOT'S OF ASIAN ANIME AND ACTION FILMS ADDED! Posted at 11:24 pm by Psychomike
Surf W/ St Pat's Birthplace!
Posted at 03:40 am by Psychomike
Sep 12, 2005
Surf W/ The Corpse Bride 1st Look
IAN FLEMING: FANTASIST- OR PROPHET?, DEBUNKING SKIN CARE MYTHS, COOK SPOTTED DICK, SEX ADVICE FROM SIDESHOW PERFORMERS!
Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond books, and had been a spy himself. For years these books were unavailable here, out of print. They were dismissed as being silly. They often postulated a multi billionaire, with the money to hire his own killers, military and scientists. Aligned with no country, at war with the world. Today however, in dealing with Osama and Al Qaeda- was Fleming trying to warn us what the future held? Today these books have a resonance they did not have when they were released.
More than ever, we need James Bond. Let the owners of the Bond franchise take note. Let's get back to the books people, what he wrote about is now real.
From hilarious videos to ghostly before and after shots of abandoned amusement park attractions, this site rocks!
If utopia is supposed to be the ideal and perfect place, where everyone lives in harmony, then why do so many of them turn out to suck?
We dream our fears as well as hopes, reflecting all the agonies and contradictions of the waking world; in dreams, demons rise from our darkest places. This is the dangerous element in utopian aspiration, the monster behind the smiling face. Utopias can embody the highest hopes of humankind and frameworks for continuous evolution, but they can also reflect our worst fears and sickest appetites—not to mention a mania for power and control that is latent in every person... http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050905/stupid-utopias-a.shtml
There's myth and then there's reality when it comes to skin care, and knowing the difference could help give you the healthy glow that everyone craves. http://healthnewsdigest.com/news/article_2418.shtml
Shakespeare from A to Z= http://www.sundayherald.com/51699
After making their name in Hong Kong, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat and John Woo all made the leap to Hollywood.
But Hong Kong's top actors and directors are now either returning home for projects or seeking inspiration from their cultural roots, with some citing creative restrictions and cultural differences in the U.S. http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-09-09-chinese-actors_x.htm
BEST SITES OF THE DAY:
She is hot. She is into taxidermy. Really shocking taxidermy. Yep, stuffed animals and things. Incredible. http://www.elizabethmcgrath.com/index_flash.html
She is a member of Rogue Taxidermists. http://www.roguetaxidermy.com/members_detail.php?id=151 Posted at 10:24 pm by Psychomike
Sep 11, 2005
Surf W/ A Bikini Contest!
WHY DOES THE PRESS PROMOTE BAD SCIENCE?, WHO WILL MAKE MILLIONS OFF NEW ORLEANS CLEANUP?, PIG ORGANS TO SAVE PEOPLE?, RUSSIANS TAPE AN EXORCISM, GOODBYE CLARENCE GATEMOUTH BROWN, THE EVOLUTION OF THE GERMAN HELMET!
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the singer and guitarist who built a 50-year career playing blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died Saturday in his hometown of Orange, Texas, where he had gone to escape Hurricane Katrina. He was 81.
Brown, who had been battling lung cancer and heart disease, was in ill health for the past year, said Rick Cady, his booking agent.
Cady said the musician was with his family at his brother’s house when he died. Brown’s home in Slidell, La...was destroyed by Katrina, Cady said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9303587
Transplants of animal organs into people could soon be a reality since the biggest obstacle in the way of safe transplants is close to being swept away by new advances.
Science never sleeps, even when facing down a hurricane. Luckily for a handful of deep sea explorers, they've found a rather unusual nightlight.
This still photo from a video taken on August 22 shows the first visual evidence of the fluorescent chain catshark.
A sixteen-year-old girl sits in a chair in a Russian Orthodox Church. She is being held down by her mother. Light filters in from high windows and the air is thick with tension and the smell of holy incense. A priest stands over her reading the rite of exorcism. The girl squirms in her mother’s arms, groaning and growling as if the priest’s words were a torment to her mind and soul. The girl struggles violently, her groans becoming inhuman howls and deep, guttural moans of psychological pain. Then she lashes out at the priest, and in a voice that seems not to be her own, spits words of defiance.
This is not a scene from a Hollywood production. This is a partial description of an actual exorcism that took place in a Russian parish on May 1, 2004.
You can hear an actual recorded excerpt from this exorcism here
Looks like I get another week at the beach- supposed to be in the 80's and 90's here in Chicago.
This link and galleries will take you to this years cash prize bikini contest.
Nice! Not safe for work. http://silvercashcontest.com/index.mas
Who is going to profit from the clean up of New Orleans? Prepare for a shocker, and no, it isn't the groups the press has been reporting!
The homepage of Joe R. Lansdale, the author of the cool cult film, Bubba Ho-Tep. Bio, news, and a rotating section of stories.
http://www.joerlansdale.com/
You can get a copy of the Quran from the folks at the Council for American-Islamic Relations.
I waited about 3 or so months for mine to come in but it's damn good - it sells for 55 bucks on Amazon, hardcover with facing Arabic original and Romanticized spelling so you can recite it, and they even throw in a nifty bookmark with the Arabic alphabet.
https://www.cair-net.org/explorethequran/request.asp
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Why is science in the media so often pointless, simplistic, boring, or just plain wrong? Like a proper little Darwin, I've been collecting specimens, making careful observations, and now I'm ready to present my theory.
It is my hypothesis that in their choice of stories, and the way they cover them, the media create a parody of science, for their own means. They then attack this parody as if they were critiquing science. This week we take the gloves off and do some serious typing.
Science stories usually fall into three families: wacky stories, scare stories and "breakthrough" stories.
Posted at 11:40 pm by Psychomike
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