Improv Everywhere organizes over 200 people to stand frozen for five minutes in Grand Central Station.

Other Improv Everywhere events:

Slo-mo Home Depot
Redhead Protest (was at first reported in the mainstream press as a serious protest).
Suicide Jumper
...and many others...

I've done a quick calculation:

We've recieved as much snow thus far this February (1st to the 13th) as we had all last winter (Dec. 21st, 2006 - Mar. 21st, 2007).

This Feb = 56 cm.
All last winter = 57cm.

(this is not counting what we accumated yesterday)

You will tell your grand children of this month, and they will call it THE MONTH IT SNOWED IN ( Read more... )

A Finnish man has had his jaw replaced with one grown from his fatty tissue stem cells inside of his abdomen.

To clarify the above:
HIS JAW WAS GROWN INSIDE HIS ABDOMEN!

Chew on that for awhile...

This is a brilliant piece of flash...

I've seen this kind of clock in various forms before, but  never as a flash app.  It's surreal to see the numbers change in a blur, and astonishing when you change the time frame to "today."

I just got all heroic and rescued the downstairs cat from impending hypothermia and severe break-my-heart cuteness.

It was stuck on the downstairs balconey, so I put on a slinky fireman's outfit, broke out the shiny new extendo-ladder(tm), climbed up there in harrowing -15 degree weather and scooped up its furry shivering ass.

Neighbors are nowhere ( Read more... )

 My mother just told us that we are related to one of the kids who were killed in the vehicle accident near Bathurst, New Brunswick on Friday evening.

My cousin Ginette's son was 17.  He died with 6 other boys, and the wife of the coach of their team.

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No woman has handled an organ quite like this...

"That was super Ms. Smith, now let's really get hot!"
"Yeah! Let's go below the border for some south american jive..."

From the film Bathing Beauty, 1944.

This is a fascinating video installation by Lenka Clayton and James Price. (7mins)

Viewing it, you get a certain sense of outer beauty / uglyness versus inner beauty / uglyness.  What we see and what we hear from others about themselves are almost never in sync.  In fact, fascination for a person seems to be created by allowing them to tell their

I just came across this series on youtube called "Dinner for Five"  The set-up is to have celebrities chat over dinner about work, life and culture.  The episode that I am posting is a brilliant conversation between practitioners of schlock cinema:  Corman (Little Shop of Horrors), Campbell (Bubba Ho Tep), Zombie (House of a Thousand Corpses) & ( Read more... )

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Before I forget again, let me express my wishes for a harmonious year to you all!