©2009 GarritoOne ladybug (or ladybird, to some) is adorable. A thousand ladybugs? Creepier than a convention of Furries. Apparently, this is known as overwintering, when they huddle together in a protected place (sort of like Furries at a convention). I don't know...when a single ladybug lands on me I consider myself lucky, but when I came across this mob I considered myself lucky to get away with my life.
I do have one gnawing question: when two ladybugs mate, does that make them lesbians?
Shiny Object brings you an impressive float from the final day of Carnaval in Rio. In this photo, we see a couple in the classic DiCaprio/Winslet "I'm the king of the world" pose, with a colossus unable to take his eyes off their PDP (Public Display of Penetration). In those skimpy costumes, the dude is probably thinking: If Saturn's behind me, that must be Uranus in front of me.
If you've been to Brussels, Belgium, you've likely seen the Manneken Pis (Dutch for Little Pee Man) because, y'know, nothing washes down those famous waffles and frites quite like faux urine.
He's been taking a whizz now since the 15th century, with competing legends behind his origin. (My favorite: a young lad witnessed foreign attackers planting an explosive charge, and peed on the burning fuse to save the city. Me, I get gun shy in a public restroom. What a kid!)
So besides peeing in public, what does he have to do with The King? Well, they often dress him in one of several hundred costumes, from a Tibetan Monk to Mozart to Nelson Mandela to Santa Claus. I was lucky enough to have caught him in the above-pictured Fat Elvis bejeweled white jumpsuit. Talk about a #1 hit!
Well, another year, another mostly snoozefest. Almost everyone not attached to a movie about a discarded Pitt or directed by an unsightly Boyle might as well have stayed home.
The show did have its moments. Ben Stiller's spot-on unshaven, unwashed, Joaquin Phoenix-in-space impersonation, Seth Rogan and James Franco's pre-taped Pineapple Express stoner segment, and Steve Martin and Tina Fey's "Don't fall in love with me" bit helped me forget about Best Sound Editing, Best Costume Design, and every other Best I-Really-Don't-Give-A-Crap-Who-Wins filler award.
To his credit, Hugh Jackman did a good job as a song-and-dance man, but they seemed to stretch the definition of "host" as he was largely a "ghost" throughout the broadcast. Alas, my hopes for an Aniston/Jolie gown-shredding catfight went unrealized.
PS. I think Jerry Lewis may need to be put down soon.
As someone who used to regularly put an entire 5-piece pack of HubbaBubba in his mouth, I'm in awe of this 7-pounder.
It's called Kauri Gum, a fossilized resin from the Kauri tree once found in sheep-like abundance in New Zealand, and used for all sorts of things from, yes, actual chewing gum to furniture varnish. (It was big in the late 1800's, so take your tongue off the coffee table!) There was even a name for people who dug up gum like this. Surprise! Gum-Diggers.
This "gem" was unearthed by Andrew Silby in his mum's (see how I used the colloquial term?) garden. He wants to sell it. Me? I'm thinking pull a Lebowski and go bowling.
Leave it the Brits to recreate the only cannon ever recovered from an English ship that battled the Spanish Armada in 1588. Ah, the glory days, pip pip, cheerio, and whatnot. Imagine their surprise when it actually works!
From Elizabeth's Lost Cannons on BBC Two, clearly the lesser of the BBC's.
This one lost control and crashed moments after I took the shot. Not my fault. I swear.
Too many sharks, not enough jets. (I swear, that's my first and last West Side Story reference.)
This one clearly fit into both the "pathetic" and "slow" categories.
Did I forget to mention the WTF category?
This was a bittersweet day for NY Mets fans as Shea Stadium, opened in 1964, was torn down to make way for shiny, new Citi Field. I grew up with Shea and loved it as much as any inanimate object not named GI Joe, right down to the Home Run Apple (which, if you don't know, is a large apple that came out of a top hat when a Met hit a home run -- silly, but it was our silly, second only to "Bernie Brewer" sliding into a giant stein of beer in Milwaukee).
Of course, I didn't realize how brutally ugly Shea was until I started seeing other ballparks around the country. And boy, was it ugly, with the deafening sound of planes taking off and landing at nearby LaGuardia throughout every game.
But it was the magical place where I got to witness Doc Gooden chalk up 16 K's, the inaugural interleague game against the Red Sox, and even the Police in concert with REM opening for them.
So, I will miss you Shea Stadium, warts and all.
JERSEY CITY (WABC) -- A chunk of burning hot metal crashed through the roof of a Jersey City business this morning, and it wasn't immediately clear where it came from.
The hunk of mystery metal made a two-foot square hole in the roof of the business, Al Smith Moving at 33 Pacific Avenue, at around 9 a.m.
The metal has two holes in it and was reportedly so hot that workers at the business couldn't touch it for a half hour.
Nobody inside the business was injured.
In 2007, a mysterious piece of metal landed in a Bayonne home.
Aliens 2, New Jersey 0 - Garrito
©2009 Garrito
©2009 Garrito
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