NEW DELHI, India — An elephant in eastern India has sparked complaints from motorists who accuse it of blocking traffic and refusing to allow vehicles to pass unless drivers give it food, The Hindustan Times said Monday.

“The tusker then inserts its trunk inside the vehicle and sniffs for food,” local resident Prabodh Mohanty, who has come across the elephant twice, was quoted as saying.

“If you are carrying vegetables and banana inside your vehicle, then it will gulp them and allow you to go.”

“We are telling commuters regularly not to tease the elephant,” said Sirish Mohanty, a forest ranger working in the state. “But if people don’t heed to our advice and harass the tusker, then it can retaliate.”

(Story via CNN.com; Image via swanksigns.org– a site that deserves its own post, which it will soon get)

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I manage to fall in love with catchy music used in TV commercials, but not the actual products being advertised. The most recent example of this being the music for a new Toyota Prius commercial.

With a little hunting, I found the band and the song:
•The (Swedish) band: Suburban Kids with Biblical Names
•The song: “Rent a Wreck” (an ironic choice for a car commercial).

Here is the song (just click the “play” arrow):

Some other catchy songs on the TV commercial playlist:
•”La Breeze” by Simian (Peugeot commercial)
•”The Whistle Song” by P.J. Olsson (Starburst Fruit Chews commercial)
•”This is the Day (Disinfected Remix)” by The The (Dockers commercial)
•”Beautiful World” by Devo (Target commercial)
•”Zoom Zoom Zoom” by Only the Strong (Mazda commercial)
•”Factor Miedo” by Cartel de Santa (Axe Body Spray commercial)
•”Mr. Blue Sky” by Electric Light Orchestra (Volkswagon commercial)

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[This is not so much a movie review as a warning]
Ahoy! Set sail for deus ex machina!
“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” is a treasure-trove of lame tropes and plot loopholes big enough to sail ships through. The words “sea sick” sum it up well. This film was not on par with the previous two. Watching it was like being subjected to a three hour Renaissance Faire with eyepatches and greasier hair. After the first hour, it made me want to mutiny. By the second hour, I would have voluntarily walked the plank. It was the “Phantom Menace” of The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. I was amazed to learn that Joel Schumacher was not involved in the making of this film.

I wish I wore an eyepatch to the movie – two of them.

The only redeeming items in this Johnny Depp cluster-f*ck:
•Geoffrey Rush with hepatitis-yellow contact lenses
•Cameo by Keith Richards (his hepatitis-yellow eyes were real)
•Davey Jones with the cool octopus tentacles

Super-double irony: an anti-piracy sign at the movie theater.

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So I’ve been nominated by my fellow ‘Dillas (well, at least one of them, anyway) to grace y’all with at least one interesting sex fact a week. So here it is.

Men fake orgasm.

And before you start in with the jokes (and the inevitable questions), let me just point what we’re not talking about a few of them. A lot of them. Like a majority of them. In a survey that hubby and I did for our new book, What Men Really Want in Bed, 52 percent of the guys who responded admitted to faking it.

Their reasons? They were tired. Drunk. They knew “it” wasn’t going to happen, and they didn’t want to disappoint their partner. Sound familiar, ladies? (OK, I know, not to all of you. This blogger, for instance, has never faked it once in her checkered history. The reasons are numerous, and not really your bidness. Wait for the memoir.)

Anyway, when I tell people this fact, the question they always ask, agog, is: “How?” C’mon, folks. Use your imagination. In the era of safe sex, it isn’t hard to avoid the tell-tale wet spot.

So guys, ‘fess up. That’s what the comments section is for. Knock yourselves out.

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Thyla.com is a website dedicated to the homoerotic relationship between Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock.
No joke.
An entire site dedicated to the subject of their relationship – including the minutiae of the <nerd>Klingon</nerd> term “t’hy’la”, which refers to the “man love” that can only be shared by a captain and his Vulcan sex-machine.
This awesome site is complete with wallpapers, haiku, fan art, and stories.
Set phazers to “gay lovin’.”

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Sentenced to death (for killing his cellmate over a chess game), Christopher Newton was executed today at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. It took 10 attempts to find a vein (for lethal injection) on the 265 lb. man – the fiasco took a total of 2 hours (it usually takes 20 minutes) and even required a bathroom break for the condemned. Link.

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So Paris Hilton is running around naked down the street, no big suprise, but all you have is your pesky cell phone camera! Have no fear, someone has been thinking about you. Brando has more crap cool stuff than you can shake a usb powered stick at. Including the telescope attachment for the Motorola razr. But wait, do I hear timbotron crying? WAAA what about Sony Ericsson! Well dude they got ya covered too!

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