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Coming to Kindle and Smashwords
November 2013

Dec 22, 2011

I think I got wood.....

Prometheus Trailer - Official TRUE HD

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funny she doesn't look like a person who would fatally inject a penis......

Woman Charged For Fatal Penis Injection ABC News

Woman Charged For Fatal Penis Injection

Talk about a "pumping party" gone wrong. A woman has been charged with manslaughter after performing a penis-enlarging procedure that resulted in a man's death. Kasia Rivera, 34, injected silicone into the victim's penis at—of all places—her home in East Orange, N.J. Justin Street, 22, died of silicone embolism the day after the procedure, a medical examiner reported. Rivera was arrested for homicide and also charged with unauthorized practice of medicine. Police are continuing to investigate the case and asking other potential victims to come forward

luv it....

got to respect the dedication

Motorcycle that runs on poop to take its debut cross-country journey

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Toto is Japan's biggest toilet bowl making company. You see the logo everywhere you go--at the airport, in department stores, at people's homes. Now you may also see it on the road--the company just released its first hybrid toilet-motorcycle that runs entirely on poop! As the person drives, he can poop into the bowl, and that poop will be turned into fuel for the car. It's actually part of a campaign that Toto is running in an effort to reduce its CO2 emissions by 50% in the next 6 years. The motorcycle will be making its way from Kyushu to Tokyo over the next month (departing in six days). Very exciting! I'm not sure who's driving but I'm sure that, in addition to having a drivers license, they had to check his stool to make sure its healthy and fuel-worthy.

Illustrator Yuko Shimizu's new book = perfect for your artsy coffee table

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Yuko Shimizu is a super-talented illustrator who lives in NYC. Her self-titled monograph came out about a month ago, and is full of provocative surrealistic comic art drawn first with traditional calligraphy brushes, overlaid with digital color and background to look like graphic prints. Super cool. I first met Yuko when I was working on the Studio360 piece about women artists in Japan. She told me that she had always drawn erotic women, but didn't realize she was a feminist until she came to the US for art school and her teachers asked her to analyze her own art for the first time. (The Western tendency to analyze is different from Japan, where it's more common to simply appreciate the aesthetic value of a piece.)

The '27 Club' Myth Debunked In A Study For The British Medical Journal

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When Amy Winehouse died this summer, one niggling rumor accompanied the public shows of grief and condemnation -- that the disturbed singer purposely killed herself to join the group of famous musicians known collectively as "the 27 club" -- Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, Robert Johnson and Jim Morrison. They all died at 27, just as Amy Winehouse did this year. The legend they spurred was blamed for introducing the fatal idea of a "right" age for sealing one's immortality.
But a group of scientists writing in the British Medical Journal says the pattern is nothing more than illusion. According to results from a comparison of survival rates between the general U.K. population and popular musicians, about as many musicians died between 1956 and 2007 at the age of 27 as they did at 25 and at 26, and even at the ripe old age of 32 :