No Touch Monkey!

At the critical mass bike ride this weekend in NYC, a Cop just runs up and shoves this guy off a bike for no apparent reason. The cyclist was on a path to hit said Pig and Piggy just runs up and knocks him off the bike.



Not all cops are Pigs, but this dude sure takes the bacon.

Labels: C, Fuck The Man, WTF

I just found out yesterday that Snickers is capitalizing on the trend of marketers shoving energy down our throats by selling a caffeinated Snickers Bar.


Based on the packaging, I think it contains Rhino Horn Extract. Boners for Everyone!

As if this weren't bad enough Snickers is trying to re-brand what I like to call, "Nap Time."

To meet consumer needs and help millions of Americans take back their energy-zapped afternoons, SNICKERS(R) Brand is proclaiming the post-lunch, pre-dinner hour between two and three p.m. the SNICKERS Charged(TM) Re-Power Hour.

I have to ask: why are our afternoons "energy-zapped"? I'd like to posit the theory that its because the American workforce has been pulled away from our natural sleep cycles by the 40 industrial work week. Thrown out of balance, we seek to stabilize our consciousness with sugar and/or caffeinated supplements. Which throw us further out of whack as the day goes on.

Ah who am I kidding, this is no theory this is fact. The fact is we need little naps around this time to maintain our physical cycles. But the Industrial/Consumer Complex demands workers to continue to feed the machine at all costs, and rather than fix the problem (by letting me take that 20 minute Power Nap), it creates "quick fix solutions" (which themselves cause more problems such as Anxiety Disorders, Obesity, ADHD and Tooth Decay).

Here is a review of the Bar

Snickers Charged - Candy Blog

Of course I'm not going to eat one, even though I have been known to enjoy the occasional Susie-Q... I have my 2 O'Clock coffee to keep me going.

via The Beautiful Kind - Ramblings of an Expert Slut and Nympho Sex Goddess (yeah, you so know you're going to check out this site...ya Pervs)

Labels: NTM, WTF

I learn lots of things every day, but this just blew my mind. I'm sure you'll be overwhelmed (sarcasm.)

Ok, so the first time I listened to Pink Floyd The Wall in it's entirety was the same day that I watched the movie, almost choked to death on a piece of ice, on the same day that dropped acid for the first time. As a Senior, I was already out of school but my friend Mike from another school, had skipped that day to drop with us at another dude's house, and midway through the movie his mom found us at the dude's house and dragged him out of there screaming and hollering at him.

There was also a full stolen prime rib that was cooked and eaten, but that is neither here nor there. Unless it was actually a baby, I don't know I didn't see it go into the oven...but I digress.

After Mike was dragged off, I went home and listened to the rest of The Wall by myself in my tiny bedroom tripping balls.

It was a pretty intense day and it is a very intense album. I don't listen to it too often, and never all in one sitting.

I have Rebuilding The Wall a bluegrass version in it's entirety by Luthor Wright and the Wrongs. It's very good, and not nearly as intense.

So as an aside I decided to see what Wikipedia had to say about The Wall. And this is what I read.

Pink's mindset deteriorates behind his freshly completed wall, with his persopnal crisis culminating during an onstage performance. Hallucinating, Pink believes that he is a fascist dictator, and his concerts are like Neo-Nazi rallies where he sets his men on fans he considers unworthy, only to have his conscience rebel at this and put himself on trial, his inner judge ordering him to "tear down the wall" in order to open himself to the outside world. At this point the album's end runs into its beginning with the closing words "Isn't this where..."; the first song on the album, "In the Flesh?", begins with the words "...we came in?" – with a continuation of the melody of the last song, Outside the Wall – hinting at the cyclical nature of Waters' theme.

So thanks to digital technology, you can now play the last song first back to back with the first song, so you can hear the melody and the jump. I suggest you turn the stereo up real loud because it's hard to hear, and it freak your own shit out.

Pink keeps looping around, and around, and around...for-everrrrrrr.




The related thing I learned 2 weeks or so ago

That the band Disaster Area in Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the end of the Universe is based on Pink Floyd. Disaster Area's concerts end with them smashing a starship into a sun, causing wild supernovas, and Pink Floyd has the song, Set The Controls to the Heart of the Sun

I new DNA was a Pink Floyd friend and fan, and that he named the album The Division Bell and for his 50th birthday got to play guitar on stage with them. I also knew Floyd had the song, but I didn't have the connection between the pieces of information to bridge the gap.

I like the feeling of connection when it comes together. Yesterday I heard a song on a Brazilian soap that sounded familiar, and after a few minutes of mental wrestling with 10,000+ songs in my music collection I was able to pinpoint it to a song by The Dandy Warhols.

Labels: WTF

I was idly flipping through the local Alt Weekly when I came across an article with a picture of a woman I used to know it.

Clayton police referred the case to the FBI. According to a Clayton PD memo, in July of last year an FBI agent notified the department of an alleged domestic disturbance at the Gladneys': A confidential informant told the FBI that Gladney threw a beer bottle at his wife on July 18, and that Susan Wu had a black eye and bruises on her legs the informant felt had been caused by Gladney. The document shows that Wu asked the informant not to leave the house.

Clayton police twice tried to check on Wu, according to the memo, but no one answered the door. On the second occasion an officer saw the blinds of a third-floor window open and close. "It is to be noted that A. Gladney has a sophisticated surveillance system with cameras around his house as well as access to numerous weapons," states the memo.

In a motion to deny bail in the extortion case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Howard Marcus cites Gladney's collection of Asian anime porn, including one DVD that "contains animated graphic depictions of abductions and rapes." He also quotes a letter written by Susan Wu that was seized by the FBI. "I cannot take another episode where Andrew's 'righteous' anger that [sic] flashes into his terrible violence," reads the letter. "At one point, he had tied and gagged me with duct tape. Then terrorized me with descriptions of my torture and death. At one point, Andrew chased me out of the home, holding a gun, telling me that he is going to shoot me in the head."

Both me and my friend Rich had crushes on her about 15 years ago. And at one point, I tried really hard to get her to break up with her boyfriend so I could date her. But alas, I wasn't the one to do it.

This is the first physical abuse story of someone I know of, and it really saddens me because Sue is a very nice woman. And it appears, she's really been beaten down because, according to the article, she faithfully visits her husband and talks to him on the phone regularly.

Bleh, the whole thing just makes me sick to my stomach thinking about it.
Rat fucking bastard should be beaten death.

Labels: WTF

LIMA (AFP) - Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday.

Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odor," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said.

Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.

"Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned," he said.

Good thing this occurred in a remote village, it's morally easier to nuke from orbit than Main Street USA, when the villagers turn into Flesh Eating Ghouls or Body Snatchers.

Get well soon.

Labels: WTF

The Abduction Pillow.

Found by Alessandra

Labels: WTF

happened Sunday Night. Over the past few weeks I've been growing my visual thinking perception, and I've been doing some layman's research by getting into articles from Visible Language, the journal of the Institute of Design from Illinois Institute of Technology, (I have a Proquest access to thousands of pdf journals, but that's another story). As a result, when the incident occurred I visualized it pretty much like this. Let me know if I'm able to get the point across. The first person to tell me what occurred Sunday night wins a prize.

The idea here is that the story should be understandable for illiterate (but not unintelligent), people of all nationalities. And I decided to use the generic AIGA Symbols for aesthetic purposes as I learn to draw, so the piece looks kind of primitive. Sorry about that.

Anyway, you'll need Adobe Acrobat or other pdf reader to view it. You are encouraged to zoom. Click the picture to begin download.

Labels: Worth your time, WTF

Ultimately, this film will most likely piss off any American who watches it. Those who are dead-set on hating everything Michael Moore releases will be infuriated by his trademark style of re-arranging of events to fit his position.sicko.jpg There are going to be those who will attempt to stop the distribution of the film because of his trip to Cuba, where he succeeds in providing an entourage of people in dire need of health care with access to Cuban doctors. Others will find his pointed statements about Hillary Clinton’s acceptance of funds from the medical lobbyists to be an assault on a beloved Democratic icon. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum though, it would be hard to ignore the truth at the heart of this film, that truth being there is something decidedly fucked up about the health care industry in this country. While this film proposes no solutions, it does most assuredly provide a point of entry into a debate that will not go away until people stop making money at the expense of the health of others.

Dowload it Here


Note: You will need to download a bittorrent client: Azureus:Java BitTorrent Client - Download to watch it, but you should do it today.

Labels: The Man, Worth your time, WTF

...But they now have an arresting color that combines green and garnet, and a bracing sour-sweet taste that they owe to a long marinade in cherry or tropical fruit or strawberry Kool-Aid.

Kool-Aid pickles violate tradition, maybe even propriety. Depending on your palate and perspective, they are either the worst thing to happen to pickles since plastic brining barrels or a brave new taste sensation to be celebrated...

"You pull the pickles from the jar, cut them in halves, make double-strength Kool-Aid, add a pound of sugar, shake and let it sit — best in the refrigerator — for about a week.

On Kool Aid Pickles: Jesus Christ, can we modify more things to stick in gobs? Pickles are supposed to be sour, not sweet, anyone who tells you different is retarded. I mean I'm not surprised because this comes from the South, home of the Deep Fried Twinkies, Obesity and a Diabetes epidemic, but still...

It's a blasphemy I tells you, I just can't cope. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

via: The Consumerist

Labels: Rant, WTF

After being told repeatedly by my placement agency that "everyone thinks you are doing a great job" and "everybody really likes you" at the place I'm working; today I received news that the client was terminating my all too brief temporary production gig at their company.

Apparently I made some comments which they said didn't jibe with their idea of a full time employee and they felt I didn't belong there.

What were these comments? When asked, the placement representative said that I referred to the Color Correction guy as "competition." and another comment was made about my disappointment that hours were being taken away from me and given to the said Color Correction guy.

Yes, that's it. The only thing I apparently said. That's what told them I was not T_ material. Despite the fact this guy was in fact working on my jobs while I was asked not to come in, and mentioning it was grounds for dismissal.

I can clearly see that this was a result of relaxing my guard around some people. I mentioned in my April 23 post "it's almost like they are treating me like a regular, but I can't forget I'm the temp because if that happens, you can bet something is going to turn around and bite me on the ass." I did and look what happened.

All I can think of is the only woman I told my concerns to (as well as telling her how much I hoped I could be brought in full time), is the same woman who totally bagged on the place, told me that I didn't want to work there and said she was looking for another job because she hated being there. She's the only one I had this discussion with.

But I don't know. I'm not a fucking watchmaker, I can't see the mechanism that works behind the dial and I can't read anything into it, nor make any judgement calls because I really don't know who fingered me.

All I know is I'm totally reeling about today. I was on super-good behavior too! I was stepping up and taking responsibility for going above the duty of a standard temp, smiling to everyone, bringing in music to the mp3 archive, donating props to photo shoots, helping the Intern. I was hoping to go full time and now I'm back on the couch with a phone in my hand.

I sent them a their parking passes back with a nice thank you letter, and it is sincere. I'm totally baffled. This really fucking sucks.

Labels: Aww Man, Holy Shit, personal, work, WTF

Laura Bush wants you to know that when it comes to Iraq, no one is suffering more than the First Couple. No one.

Yeah...go tell this woman: From an Angry Soldier

via- AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Labels: The Man, WTF

The Church of Scientology has dispatched 'ministers' to provide 'grief counseling' for shell-shocked youth at Virginia Tech - but critics suspect the sect hopes to convert the vulnerable students.

"It's shameless, how they milk human tragedy to promote their organization," charges Rick Ross, whose CultNews.net has long tracked the group, which counts Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley among its members. "These young people [at VT] are experiencing trauma. What they need are qualified mental health professionals."

HollywoodInterrupted.com's Mark Ebner brands the Scientologists as "vultures" who are "hindering legitimate, heroic rescue efforts with their spurious 'therapies,'" such as a "touch assist" - a light massage, which, Ebner says, is "supposed to distract them from their tragedy. It's a form of mini-hypnosis."

"They did this at Ground Zero [after 9/11]," says Ross. "They did this in New Orleans [after Hurricane Katrina]. They look for very high-profile disaster that can be milked for photo ops" to promote the Church.

Church official Sylvia Stannard tells us that about 20 "ministers" are in Blacksburg, Va. "We're doing a lot of emotional counseling, which is kind of our speciality," says Stannard. "We prohibit our people from proselytizing," but she adds, "they are going to tell them they are Scientologists" and "they will answer questions."

The church, which preaches against all psychiatric pharmaceuticals, has already seized upon early reports that Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman accused of Monday's bloodbath, may have been taking antidepressents.

Stannard says the killings demonstrate "these mind-altering drugs" make "you numb to other people's suffering. You really have to be drugged up to coldly kill people like that."

Even before Cho's name was released, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group founded by the church, said in a press release that "media and law enforcement must move quickly to investigate the Virginia shooter's psychiatric drug history - a common factor amongst school shooters."

Ebner argues that the commission "claimed psychiatric drugs caused the Columbine High School shooting. But it came out later that the shooters went wild because they were off their meds.

via-NY Daily News:

Labels: WTF

I was transporting a black 17 year old, unwed mother last night to a meeting. She used to live in the county, but now lives in the city where she says she can't walk down the street (7 months pregnant) without constantly getting hit on.

"I don't want Blacks as friends, they just all want to be gangstas. I picture myself surrounded by a group of white friends. I want white friends who want to do something with their lives."

Lovely (and lonely) girl with great drive to remain in a positive environment.

Still, I could claim her generalizations are a result of time spent in the mediasphere, or the result of the broad generalizations we create about everyone we meet, but it is most shocking to hear someone say something like that. It opens up a HUGE number of issues that force one to look at their own prejudices as well as causes one to think about the whole concept of being prejudiced about one's own race.

Labels: WTF

In this video clip, Stephen Colbert points out that Barack Obama has referred to himself as a 'black candidate.' Colbert's guest, Debra Dickerson, disagrees with Obama's description of himself and says that in the American political context, Obama is not black.

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Via The Raw Story'

Labels: Culture Wars, Insanity, WTF