Earlier this month, Blogadilla graduated to Threat Level Orange, after being deemed a “Website of Mass Distraction” by the Columbus Dispatch and Newsweek.com [link].
It’s official: Blogadilla is now considered “PORNOGRAPHY.”
I was in a local Peet’s Coffee and I tried to look up Blogadilla on their network. And this was what appeared:
Maybe it was the article I posted about Smurf Porn, maybe it’s our liberal use of the word ‘ass’ on the site, or maybe it’s because our controversial favicon is a naked lady with a donkey. All I can say is this is how we roll here at Blogadilla, and they’re making porn sound like a bad thing.
About 1 in 20,000 women have complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) - where they are genetically male (XY), but their body has problems recognizing testosterone (and other androgens) and thus they have physically developed as women (this has been rumored of actress Jamie Lee Curtis, but never formally verified).
None of these tests, to date, have revealed a man posing as a woman. However, in 1985, Spanish hurdler Maria José Martínez Patino discovered that she was born with a Y chromosome (XY), instead of another X (XX) - that she is genetically male and has AIS.
Though genetically male, these women have female physiology - and their genetic makeup shouldn’t actually provide any greater physical advantage.
So, how should the line be drawn this year?
Should it really matter?
Of course something like his has to happen in a place named Armuchee, Georgia. This little deer has 6 legs, 2 pelvises, and 2 tails. But now it only has 1 tail, after a dog attacked it. AP Link.
If you don’t do things to ceremoniously embrace Summer, it can often slip by unenjoyed.
A Working List of Things to Do This Summer
• Make lemonade from scratch (even if you have to buy the lemons) and drink it on a porch, stoop, deck, or veranda.
• Go to a beach, lake, or outdoor public swimming pool. Get wet.
• Eat popsicles.
• Have a barbeque - or minimally, eat barbeque.
• Sleep outdoors at least once - either in a forest, on a beach, in a back yard, or on the roof of your apartment building.
• If you have an ice cream man in your neighborhood, buy a popsicle from him at least once. Even if you are in your mid-30’s and look foolish chasing after him.
• Get a sunburn.
• Run through lawn sprinklers, slide on a Slip-N-Slide, sit in a kiddie-pool, wade in a public fountain, or go to a water park.
• Make an extra effort to put ice in all of your beverages. Especially coffee.
• Wear a sunscreen that smells like vacation. Even on a day when you don’t need to.
Coca-Cola and The China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences have jointly created “The Coca-Cola Research Center for Chinese Medicine.”
No, this is not a joke.
Their objective: to secretly design a new commercial beverage incorporating Chinese herbal medicine [link].
“[Coke is] looking for exotic herbal ingredients to make a completely new drink and sort of revolutionize the whole soft-drink industry . . .” said Matthew Crabbe, director of Access Asia [link].
This is awesome:
Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto had a nicely decorated 750 square foot apartment in Providence, Rhode Island, for nearly four years. Until the Providence Place Mall security caught them - they made this secret apartment inside the shopping mall.
Their site is rendered in hilarious ‘real estate sales’ format.
“During the Christmas season of 2003 and 2004, radio ads for the Providence Place Mall featured an enthusiastic female voice talking about how great it would be if you (we) could live at the mall.”
About every other month, my neighbor Kate and I will explore one of the many foreign grocery stores in our area. And we always come back with tons of random unidentifiable stuff. This month’s adventure: Daiso in Daly City, CA - it’s kind of like a Japanese Wal*Mart (everything in Daiso is $1.50).
What we brought back (each was only $1.50):
Japanese Barf Bags
Japanese Instant Inflatable Boobies
(Model: Kate)
Japanese Instant Swan Boner
(Model: Me. Note the creepy guy on the package)
Japanese Golden Nose with Blue Mucous
(model: Kate)
C - The KII EMF Meter (with switch modification). $66.95 (or $44.95 unmodified), available through Ghost Augustine.
D - The TRI-Field Natural EMF Meter. Don’t let the name mislead you, it also works with supernatural EMF fields also. $207.99, available through Ghost TRHAPS.
E - The Baketan Ghost Detector 1.0. Strap it to your cellphone, it changes color to indicate the nature of the supernatural presence. Only $19.89, cute ghost charm included, available through Strapya-World.
F - The Baketan Ghost Detector 2.0. Small enough to strap to your cellphone, it changes color to indicate the nature of the supernatural presence, also includes new ‘ghost voice translator.” $19.12, available through Strapya-World.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - near the top of the list of culturally significant films of the mid-80’s.
And it had a great soundtrack.
And the soundtrack was never released.
This was a serious loose end of my adolescence.
Apparently director John Hughes was concerned about the eclectic range of music in the soundtrack and so the soundtrack was never released. Over 20 years later and people still want it.
*Tracks I did not include because of space issues and because they’re kinda lame-ish:
• “Theme from ‘I Dream of Jeannie’” - Hugo Montenegro
• “Star Wars (Main Title)” - John Williams
• “I’m Afraid” - Blue Room
“It’s not that all granite is dangerous . . . but I’ve seen a few [granite countertops] that might heat up your Cheerios a little.” - Stanley Liebert, the quality assurance director at CMT Laboratories.
Apparently this case is not unique; previous New Zealand examples include: Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy, Number 16, Bus Shelter, Violence, and (a personal favorite) Sex Fruit.
The item is an ancient Roman marble “acroterion” - a decorative bust from a sarcophagus, tomb, or tombstone. It is expected to fetch £25,000 - £30,000 in the October auction.
*And this is the awesome pompadoured, sequined, lambchoped, fat Elvis.
Find out with decent accuracy (it worked for me, at least) the “age” of your brain with this cool applet from FlashFabrica. Just memorize the position of each number and then after they dissappear, click the circles in order from lowest number to highest. Fortunately, there is no need to brush up on your Chinese language skillz to play.
