When it wasn’t raining yesterday, my allergies were driving me nuts (OK, nuts-er), so I spent most of the day inside reading, and then watching some British TV on Netflix. On show I was watching is called “Waking the Dead,” which is kind of a cold case, forensics sort of show. One person was lamenting the amount of crap she was having to go through and analyze, including hundreds of smoked cigarettes, or, as she put it, “a bag full of stinky fag butts.” :rofl2: OK, I know that’s kind of a childish thing to laugh at, but I can’t help it; I thought it was pretty funny. I’m tempted to incorporate it into an e-mail signature, but people might take it the wrong way.
I know I’m old and out of the loop as far as what the kids are up to these days, but eyeball licking? Seriously, that’s a thing?
Eyeball licking, a teen fad that started in Japan, can cause blindness, “pink eye” and other health problems, health experts are warning.
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Japanese blog Naver Matome interviewed one concerned teacher who said that he ran into two sixth grade students licking each others’ eyeballs in an equipment room. After he confronted them, they admitted it was popular in their class. His independent survey of students confirmed his fears: One-third of the children admitted to eyeball licking.
When I first saw the headline, I wondered how the hell you could lick your eyeball. But then I realized they were talking about licking each other’s eyeballs.
I hate to be judgmental (and I’ll admit to having licked a thing or two in my day), but eyeballs? That seems kinda gross to me. I wouldn’t want to be on either end of that transaction.
I traded with somebody this week, so today is my long day and I’m stuck here until five o’clock. Kinda sucks, but it’s nice to get it over right at the start of the week. Plus I had a hard time getting my ass out of bed this morning (not that I was asleep, mind you), so it was nice to be able to just hang out in bed for a while. We had some thunderstorms roll in as about 2 AM this morning, and poor Fritzi was not too happy about it. His response is to climb up in bed with me and pant desperately (dripping hot dog spit on me). I need to get him to a doggie psychologist or get him some good drug or something.
Better yet, get me some good drugs.
Oh well, under a half hour to go. Time to start packing up my toys and get ready to go.
What happened to thunder shirts?
They turned out to be relatively ineffective. And a hassle to go find and put on him in the middle of the night.
My cousin uses Benadryl on her dog when the wind comes sweeping down the plains.
My sister gives her dog benadryl for allergies but that sound like a good idea. Her dogs don’t seem to have a storm problem. Hell, if she or her beau ran for gubner of VA, the state might pay for it.
Appeals court: Christian can sue Oklahoma over Native American license plate
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Yeah, I’m not quite getting his connection. And we have The Guardian atop the State Capitol Dome. :billcat:
Michael Hastings Dies In Car Accident
By Peter Sterne
Buzzfeed reporter Michael Hastings, 33, was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles, the site announced this evening.
Editor in chief Ben Smith released a statement praising Mr. Hastings. “Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians,†Mr. Smith wrote. “He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold.â€
Mr. Hastings joined Buzzfeed in February of last year, after working as a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he famously published a profile of U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, titled “The Runaway General,†which led to General McChrystal’s resignation.
At Buzzfeed, he aggressively covered President Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign and then turned his campaign reporting into an e-book, “Panic 2012: The Sublime and Terrifying Inside Story of Obama’s Final Campaign.†In October, he joined Buzzfeed’s Los Angeles bureau as a correspondent-at-large.
🙁 :gate:
Just saw that on Young Turks. My first reaction was that he’d fallen prey to some nefarious circumstance.
Just so so sad 🙁 :gate:
Still, I want Glen Greenwald to avoid walking down streets by himself. :tinfoil:
Michael Hastings, ‘Rolling Stone’ Contributor, Dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-hastings-rolling-stone-contributor-dead-at-33-20130618#ixzz2WcLf0hHd
Slim Whitman dies aged 89
Yodelling country singer best known for Rose Marie and Indian Love Call
Slim Whitman stayed at No 1 in the UK pop charts with Rose Marie for 11 weeks in 1955, a run that would not be bettered for 36 years. Photograph: Redferns
The singer Slim Whitman, who has died aged 89, was a noteworthy figure in country music, since, although he was hugely popular outside the US, for most of his career he was almost forgotten in his own country. But in the 1970s, two decades after his American heyday, he still commanded enough of a following in the UK to be voted the No 1 international star in a music poll – four times.
🙁 :gate:
I will forever associate him with Una Paloma Blanca. At least the 15 or so seconds of it in the commercial for his greatest hits album that ran incessantly during my formative years.
RIP, James Gandolfini.
:gate: 🙁