I've been watching the weird-news circuit lately, and some of the stories are kind of sad and some of them are kind of horrifying, but here's one about a twenty-year-old who drank a lot of vodka and told police he was a werewolf, and that's just right.

Holy cow, sometimes these things actually get solved.

Severed feet in British Columbia identified as belonging to missing person.

My archive has several examples of this, but tahmthelame covered this specific one. Don't think you're off the hook, north Pacific coast! I got my eye on you.

Hunters doin' it wrong! Happy Tuesday, everybody!

Three Florida women arrested in evil spirit cleansing scam

Just to keep everyone up to date.

Moar dead fish in Brazil.

Still moar dead fish in New Zealand.

The UK shakes it up with forty thousand dead crabs.

Oh yeah, and Hurley's numbers won the lottery yesterday. Not a joke, although not quite as awesome as the headline would have you believe. Still.

ETA: More downed birds in Kentucky, and just in ( Read more... )

At this point I feel I have an obligation to report to you that there are dead birds in Sweden, and oh yeah did you hear about the birds in Louisiana and the fish along the Chesapeake Bay? Yeeeah.

IS EVERYBODY WEARING THEIR APOCALYPSE PANTS?

ETA: For those curious about how the bird rain, the fish massacre, and last month's earthquake cluster line up,I have created a map.

ETA 2: Map updated to include New Year's Eve tornado.

HONK HONK DIVE DIVE THE APOCALYPSE IS AT HAND THIS IS NOT A TEST

I'm baking tonight, and in case you are too, or aren't and would like to be, here are my two designated Christmas cookie recipes. First: molasses cookies, which are seriously the easiest cookies in the world as they can be done with one bowl, one spoon, a 1/2 tsp measuring spoon and a 1/2 cup measuring cup, and that's it ( Read more... )

Guess what time of year it is!

It's feet wash up on the north Pacific shore time!

I like to think that in posting these news items, I'm unknowingly dispatching someone to go take a look at them: that someone even more serious than me watches, hovering close to the keyboard, gun in hand, waiting for the post that will kick off a new adventure. If that's the case, then congratulations, guys, you're goin' to New Zealand.

ETA: It ( Read more... )