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• Commented on Hitler: football coach?
  Really? Five percent thought Hitler was a german football coach? Was that a freely given answer or one of the options on a multiple choice test? A WWII theme park? That's another one that kids just randomly blurted out? If...
• Commented on Happy Saganseve, Everybody
  I was in my last year of HS when THE DEMON HAUNTED WORLD came out, and more than my then favorites Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot, that book gave me a sense of urgency as to how important science and...
• Commented on Careless forklift driver brings down the warehouse - video
  The Huffington post reported on this earlier.. Yikes! $150K! "A fork lift driver in Moscow was sampling too much of his own product when he drunkenly plowed his vehicle into the stock shelves of vodka and cognac in the storeroom...
• Commented on Cheese sculptures
  I love cheese. I love it so much that i can't even fault bad cheese for being awful. At a party the other night, I looked in disgust at their pedestrian cheese plate and then proceeded to eat it all....
• Commented on Auditions for Maker Faire 2009 to be held in San Jose on Sunday, March 8
  Pssst. Do you really mean March 8th?...
• Commented on Disney duck family tree
  My mind has been blown, my day has been made. I'm surprised that the Glomgold branch is so detached from the McDuck family tree. you'd think the Scottish duck families would be extremely intermarried....
• Commented on Webcam border stake-out
  There are several reasons this is an assured "Fail" 1. Texas 2. Sherrif 3. Who wants to come into the US during a depression? This is all part of the pathetic Dobbsian notion that illegal immigration is an issue of...
• Commented on Interview with Crowleyana collector
  Crowley is all over southern California. Its amazing. My brother and I made a documentary for the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, and you couldn't get ten feet from the place without someone Invoking Crowley, the occult, and L.Ron Hubbard....
• Commented on Rock'em Sock'em monks
  Catbeller: Clay of my claaaay....
• Commented on Rock'em Sock'em monks
  This setup is so effed up that a ladder placed on a ledge over the entrance sometime in the 19th century has remained there ever since because of a dispute over who has the authority to take it down....
• Commented on Rock'em Sock'em monks
  The place is shared by a lot more than just the two current brawling factions. There are custodians there from Eastern Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox ,Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, and Syriac Orthodox Churches. The protestant churches didn't...
• Commented on How to make a squirrel sandwich
  The next governor of Alaska....
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  Ok, maybe I'm nuts but "Tickle's Playport"? It may have just been an Eighties aberration in Colorado Springs. It was sort of a fun house indoors at malls. The Museum of Natural history and the Planetarium were classics. Celebrity Sports...
• Commented on A visit to Casa Bonita restaurant in Denver
  Good Lord, Mark! Casa Bonita is not meant to be viewed by adult eyes who can discern shit from shinola. The continued existence of the place is owed to word of mouth falsehoods from one child to the next. When...
• Commented on Video: Gordian worm leaves its cricket host
  TAKUAN: Reead the diabolic post. Zombie Snails need Braaaains....
• Commented on Video: Gordian worm leaves its cricket host
  I did a whole post on mind controling parasites including Gordians on my blog a while back. The terrifying flatworm of Doom is my fav, and video..is included "Leucochloridium paradoxum are a parasitic flatworm that prey on birds. The worms...
• Commented on Experiment: 96% of passers-by ignore famous artist's street painting
  Living in Los Angeles and not being completely vacuous is an exercise in observation. This city offers some of the most visually stunning, but tragically neglected planning and street art in the world. From the Compton Towers to the various...
• Commented on Woman goes on YouTube to air divorce grievances
  Maybe i have a different view of this since I work in the entertainment industry, but this is just tragic. By the looks of her, and by her mentions of going to London to revive her career, I would venture...
• Commented on Happy 107th birthday to my grandmother!
  Incredible. My Great Aunt passed away a month ago, she was a buck, and two pennies. When we visited her over the Holidays, i showed her pictures of my life here in LA on my iPhone. As i was leaving...
• Commented on Julian Cope's Japrocksampler blog
  Oh mercy! The blog was interesting, the pictures delightful, but you try to google JapRock and it makes your ears bleed. Before I write a hasty blog about how awful my jorney into JapRock was can anyone direct me to...
• Commented on Pictures of guys in clubs with spray tans
  I'm not sure what's more disturbing. The "Crown of thorns" hair, The Orange goop dripping off their foreheads Or theterrifying "Pouty" pose. What the hell is going on in NJ?...
• Commented on Video of man firing 18 rounds from a pistol in 3 seconds
  I'm reminded of the opening to IDIOCRACY. He can shoot an intruder 18 times in the head before he even gets near, but he can't choose a salad once in a while?...
• Commented on Six Steampunk saints fit on a quarter
  With the Stan Lee Art, and now, this. Boingboing has tapped a deeply covetous part of me. Too cool....
• Commented on Why it's good to leave your WiFi open
  Last night my roommates and I came home from a get-together and were trying to find parking on our street. Since today is trash day, everyone had their garbage up on the curb to allow ample parking for everyone. Except...