A Prayer for Emilio
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under In The News, music, people | Leave a Comment
I trembled when I read of Tejano star Emilio Navaira’s tour bus crash and the injuries he’s sustained. My heart goes out to Emilio, his family, friends and fans.
Read More..>>Don’t say it.
Posted on January 1, 2008 - Filed Under Current Affairs, In The News, Words and Language, Work, america | Leave a Comment
I suppose I’m largely “out of the loop” when it comes to cliches. Reuters has a piece here on words and phrases that deserve banning.
Read More..>>Glyptodontus Rex
Posted on December 12, 2007 - Filed Under In The News | Leave a Comment
Read this disturbing report on giant armadillos walking the South American soil back in the day. I’m quite glad I wasn’t around for that. The sight of modern armadillos is unsettling enough, and I strongly dislike their odor. Imagine the stink of that behemoth from Chile.
Read More..>>Jaran reads the news.
Posted on March 6, 2007 - Filed Under In The News, Television, Zagreb, croatia, entertainments, hrvatski, people | Leave a Comment
If you’re at work, this is not the time to view this post. Posted below is a clip of what I believe to be the very essence of the latenight Zagreb television program Noćna Mora. If I needed to describe the show to an American (and I suppose I am here), I’d say it’s a [...]
Read More..>>Free Jungle Girl!
Posted on February 10, 2007 - Filed Under In The News, Ringtones, music, people | Leave a Comment
About a month ago I read the story of a woman found living in the jungles of Cambodia. Thought to be the lost daughter of a Cambodian family, she was living as a damn wild woman for 18 years. Bully for Jungle Girl. Described as having “blackened skin and hair down to her legs,”Jungle Girl [...]
Read More..>>Need a Healthy Dose of Culture Shock?
Posted on January 25, 2007 - Filed Under In The News | Leave a Comment
If visiting with the inbred hillfolk of backwoods Appalachia is out of your reach, propel thineself to Malaysia, where “impressive piles of scatalogical evidence” are strong scientific proof that Bigfoot walks the earth. This is all the proof I need:
WPvideo 1.10
Anyway…
You name it, Malaysians just might believe in it. Bigfoot, midget vampires, necromancing and human [...]
Can You Really Milk A Baby?
Posted on January 20, 2007 - Filed Under In The News, food and drink | Leave a Comment
In a magnanimous gesture of international goodwill, the Beijing Health Bureau is taking drastic measures to be certain that guests at the 2008 Olympic Games won’t worry about contracting exotic foodborne illnesses and suffering explosive deaths from dining in the Chinese capital. They are imposing - wait for it - a health and sanitation code. [...]
Read More..>>Addressing the Golem
Posted on January 19, 2007 - Filed Under Current Affairs, In The News, Places, Zagreb, croatia, europe | Leave a Comment
Julia Gorin’s recently published opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun (“When will world confront the undead of Croatia?” on January 16, 2007) was remarkably insulting not only to Croats, but also to thinking individuals around the world. Better known for her lame humor and partisan opinions, Gorin should seriously consider avoiding world affairs in her [...]
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