good night, mood

1. The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas is doing some rebuilding, including custom suites. Okay, "Erotic Suite", the usual honeymoon thing. But I would seriously pay out for the "Bowling Suite" that includes two regulation sized lanes. Damn.
   
   
2. I don't have a big problem with heights, but I think I'll be avoiding the glass bottomed bridge 4000 feet over the Grand Canyon they're putting in next year. Ulp.
   
   
3. Ursi found a giant jpeg of Ground Zero NY from the air at 1016 dpi.
   
   
4. Here's a great big pretty site all about playing cards and their history.

When your best song isn't yoursr

The following musical artists are best-known for one or more cover songs that far outstrip their own originals commercially and/or artistically, whether they or their fans think so or not. These are in no particular order and may piss you the hell off. I'm not including "interpreter" artists who do almost only covers. Also some of these 'artists' really suck and you don't need to tell me that, mmkay. Add as you wish!

The Lemonheads
Alien Ant Farm
Orgy
Natalie Imbruglia
Bauhaus
Cowboy Junkies
Dillinger Escape Plan
Sixpence None the Richer
Anthrax
Soft Cell
Dynamite Hack
Kim Carnes
Manfred Mann
Quiet Riot (Slade, TWICE!)
Jose Feliciano

pennies for the geyser

1. theuglyvolvo has a wonderful office story that I won't spoil for you; just read it.
   
   
2. Oops. They built too many of those stupid Hummers. Thanks, kniwt!
   
   
3. everyday_people has a really sweet shot of some young musicians. Aww.
   
   
4. I grew up watching European animation and loving it, especially Bruno Bozzetto. Someone has collected Flash versions of a few of his shorts, including the wonderful Horror movie one.
   
   
5. Usually landscape and nature photos leave me cold, but Adamus is freakin' amazing.
   
   
6. Using lots of "hip" 1990s design for the "kids", McDonalds is taking the McRib on a "farewell tour". Someone should tell them that their food is bacterial and not viral. Plus, the McRib has had more comebacks than Anna Russell. Plus, it's gross.
   
   
7. The pharmaceutical industry commissioned a sub-Crichton novel about how terrorists use important Canadian drugs to kill us all. I am not making this up. Makes me wonder in retrospect how much Crichton was paid for Airframe.
   
   
8. Totally cute little Famicom Micro will make Nintendo fans and all video game aficionados happy.
   
   
9. Uh, someone found a SUITCASE FULL OF HUMAN BONES WITH A HAT ON IT.
   
   
10. Religious conservatives who support the Republican party should know that the guys in charge call them "wackos" and manipulate and mock them.
    
    
11. How to become an outlaw legend, high speed chase style. Not your average chase video. Wow.
    
    
12. Welcome to sunny Southern California, where parents host "Pimp 'n' Ho" parties for their 14-year-old kids.
    
    
13. Louisiana doesn't have the $3.7 billion that the feds say is "their share" of the cost of Katrina.

The part of "psychotic First Lady" is to be played by Piper Laurie

Possible explanations for this photo include:

1. David Icke is right. Both the English Royal Family and the U.S. leadership are actually evil space lizards, or "reptoids". In this shot Laura Bush has just seen Icke across the room and is uncontrollably morphing into her true reptilian self.
   
   
2. Prince Charles, on a desperate Bond-like mission to save the world from the Bush administration, has his Walther PPK in the small of the First Lady's back as he tries to force the President to resign. This is a doomed effort because the President doesn't give a shit about his wife or anyone else.
   
   
3. It has now been proven that if you give Camilla Parker-Bowles an injection of curare directly into her spine she turns into Laura Bush.
   
   
4. Condi Rice is across the room and she and the First Lady are having an "evil face" contest.
   
   
5. Cocaine.
   
   
6. As Mrs. Bush explains to Charles that they'll be snacking on babies later with Karl Rove, he desperately tries to catch the eye of his assistant to get him the fuck out of there to somewhere he can drink this whole fucking visit out of his head.

Add yours as you please!

Solid ivory shift knob made from the bones of the dead from Iraq also available

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