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when you get drunk, watch a bunch of Metallica videos, and let your girlfriend shave off your beard...
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You know, about the only thing better than going to IKEA . . . is getting someone to go to IKEA for you.( Read more... )

"People can't believe that the man they thought was quite invincible is dead." Read more. (I get news late up here in Canada)

Quick and painless reviews of . . . Lady in the Water, Waist Deep, Drawing Restraint 9, A Scanner Darkly, Birdy, Clerks II, and Kids.
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Five people have been detained in China for running striptease send-offs at funerals, state media say. The once-common events are held to boost the number of mourners, as large crowds are seen as a mark of honour. But the arrests, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, could signal the end of the rural tradition. Read more at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/ ( Read more... )

British Columbia stretches from Washington up to the southern tip of Alaska along the west coast of Canada. With the ocean on one side and the Rocky Mountains on the other, there’s all manner of hills, prairie, forests, and beaches in between, often stacked right up on top of each other. We drove up the western coastline of Vancouver Island ( Read more... )

“He [Abdul Waheed] used to smoke weed and drink a lot, but he is completely different now,” said a neighbor, who refused to be identified. “He converted to Islam about six months ago and grew a full beard” and now Don Stewart-Whyte-Waheed, 21, from High Wycomb, one of the 19 suspects accused by British officials of planning to blow up U.S.-bound ( Read more... )