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The title says it all. The muppets performing Mahnah Mahnah. From Sesame Street.

Come fight me in the arena! Make your own little brute to fight my little brute!

Once you create a guy, you can join in five arena battles each day. Its easy enough, you just pick an opponent and the fight happens automagically. Fun stuff.

Fight Garce’s Brute

Evil is afoot and its name is July, or more specifically July 8, 2009. I have seen the end of the world as I know it and I feel fine, though I expect that to change. I have pegged the exact time of our doom, down to the second.

This date is my mother-in-law’s birthday, so I already knew it was evil. This is not news to me.

Civilization, R.I.P. 04:05:06 07/08/09
Sweden, R.I.P. 06:07:08 09/10/11

No, not the Discovery Channel program about planes crashing – there’s nothing happy about that. The OTHER May Day, the pagan celebration of the first day of summer (which would make the original summer solstice of June 25 – now June 21 – midsummer).

Since those wacky Christians took over, May Day has been changed to celebrate all types of things – none of them much fun. A concise and hopefully fairly accurate of the history of this day is available at Wikipedia, natch.

May Day History

I’m not going to editorialize about this one at all.

A viral cause for vampirism was first reconized as a possiblity in 1616 by the Italian scientist Ludovico Fatinelli. He speculated that vampirism could be caused by a microscopic pathogen. The virus belongs to the Mononegavirales order, along with rabies. The virus can be transmitted through contact of bodily fluid, getting bitten by a vampire bat, or getting bitten by a bat flea.

Right. I must warn you that the full article states, “Today, vampires are cool.” So, take it from there. Full Article

This defintely has a high WTF? quotient. Apparently, South Korean scientists have genetically engineered and cloned puppies that glow in the dark. Finally! Proof that too much edumacation isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Far from just creating novelty pets, those wacky Koreans consider it more important that they can implant specific genes into the animals. Seems they’re also experimenting with human diseases and dogs, as well. The bastards.

You can read the full article, originally posted at at Dream Dogs, and view the photos here: Glow In The Dark Dogs.

It still amazes how easily I can be brought down by a song. Its three a.m. Tuesday morning and I’m asleep. My sleep is not that deep, though. The digital music channel playing softly in the background is – apparently – toying with my subconcious. It stirs me awake.

Well, Ive been afraid of changing
cause Ive built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
Im getting older too.

With those words it is suddenly June 1991 and December 2007 – and every moment in between. The lyrics wash over me, creating a crushing wave of confusion.

As the song rouses me from my slumber I have no idea what day, month, year or even decade it is. I am awash in sixteen years of memories and emotions – all revisited in the time it would normally take me to bat an eye.

Eventually my little world comes back into focus and I come to grips with my surroundings as I lie on my bed, yet I feel emotionally crippled. I stay prone on my back as the song plays out, then create this post after it ends.

The sensation didn’t last long, but it did take some time (and a cup of coffee) to recover and recompose myself. A landslide, indeed.

Sometimes, you just have to let go.

Oh, take my love, take it down
Climb a mountain and turn around
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down.

I’m going to let the inimitible Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham bring this chapter to a close. Love you all.

I’ve always found it stunning how other people’s words can so succinctly sum my own feelings.

Note: This song is protected by copyright and is continually removed from Youtube. Because of this I have to change the video when its removed – so you never know what you’ll get here. The current version (posted above) is from a 1977 Fleetwood Mac concert in Japan. We were all young and beautiful once.

A Greek and an Italian were sitting down one day debating who had the superior culture.

The Greek says, “We have the Parthenon.” The Italian says, “We have the Coliseum.” The Greek says, “We had great Mathematicians.” The Italian says, “We had the Roman Empire,” and so on and so on and then the Greek says: “We invented sex.”

The Italian says, “That is true, but it was the Italians who introduced it to women.”

An elderly couple were having dinner one evening when the husband reached across the table, took his wife’s hand in his and said, ‘Martha, soon we will be married 50 years, and there’s something I have to know. In all of these 50 years, have you ever been unfaithful to me?’

Martha replied, ‘Well Henry, I have to be honest with you. Yes, I’ve been unfaithful to you three times during these 50 years, but always for a good reason.

Henry was obviously hurt by his wife’s confession, but said, ‘I never suspected. Can you tell me what you mean by ‘good reasons?”

Martha said, ‘The first time was shortly after we were married, and we were about to lose our little house because we couldn’t pay the mortgage. Do you remember that one evening I went to see the banker and the next day he notified you that the loan would be extended?’

Henry recalled the visit to the banker and said, ‘I can forgive you for that. You saved our home, but what about the second time?’

Martha asked, ‘And do you remember when you were so sick, but we didn’t have the money to pay for the heart surgery you needed? Well, I went to see your doctor one night and, if you recall, he did the surgery at no charge.’

‘I recall that,’ said Henry. ‘And you did it to save my life, so of course I can forgive you for that. Now tell me about the third time.’

‘Alright,’ Martha said. ‘So do you remember when you ran for president of your golf club, and you needed 73 more votes???

Its a very sad day here. Comedian George Carlin, 71, died of heart failure yesterday at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California.

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