Thank you human calendar!

Please leave a comment if you'd like me to flist you! -- Bill

Janet?  Nah, La Toya.

Claiming to have foreseen his death just weeks before it happened, Jackson's older sister La Toya, 53, accused unnamed members of his "shadowy" entourage of deliberately getting him hooked on drugs so that they could milk him financially.
Michael was murdered by his greedy entourage, claims sister - Scotsman.com News

"B'EAU-PAL" WATER SCARES DOW EXECS INTO HIDING
Plans to contribute to climate action in lead-up to Copenhagen begin to take shape

London - A new, beautifully-designed line of bottled water - this time not from the melting Alps, nor from faraway, clean-water-deprived Fiji, but rather from the contaminated ground near the site of the 1984 Bhopal catastrophe - scared Dow Chemical's London management team into hiding today.
Dow runs scared from water | The Yes Men

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we created our own reality.  And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.  We're history's actors .. and you [the press], all of you, will be left to study what we do."

 A Bush official (suggested to be Karl Rove), October, 2004.

cited in Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, WWI to 9/11 by Kathryn Olmsted

See step 27.

Astoria, New York, NY to Sydney New South Wales, Australia - Google Maps

The New York Connecting Railroad (which is elevated) is 100 feet from my apartment.  No problem normally, except in the last few days the Acela trains blow their horns as they com up to my street. 

This bridge was the inspiration for the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia.
Hell Gate Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cthulhu Day; What's it about?

Cthulhu Day, otherwise known as Chef Boyardee Appreciation Day, is the day where all of us petty three dimensional mortals worship our Dread Father. It is held thrice every year, on April 2nd, February 27 and December 2nd.
Cthulhu Day - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia

It was an accident waiting to happen -- an open sewer and a 15-year-old girl who was texting while she walked.
Teen Girl Falls In Open Manhole While Texting - wcbstv.com

26 seconds of "good news, everyone."

The Argyle Sweater for July 11, 2009 from www.gocomics.com

Gocomics.com: Comics, editorial cartoons, email comics, comic strips

A family who tried to lure back a lost dog by leaving a trail of their urine on streets near their home have been criticised by the city council.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol | Family's urine bid to locate dog

NSFW - language

This handout photo courtesy of Greenpeace shows Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota. Greenpeace activists were arrested Wednesday for scaling Mount Rushmore and hanging a banner next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln urging President Barack Obama to get tough on climate change.
Visiting South Dakota - Yahoo! News Photos

Remember that Tauntaun sleeping bag that was supposedly for sale on Think Geek but wasn't, because it was April Fools and they were only kidding? So many people wanted it and got angry that it wasn't available. The company has now decided to try to bring it to life for real--if the suits at Lucasfilms will grant them a license.
Los Angeles - Don't Joke About Tauntaun Sleeping Bags: Star Wars Fanatics Get Pissed - Style Council - LA Weekly

Just watched Herzog's Woyzeck, a beautiful film (well, if there can be a "beautiful" film about someone going insane and killing is wife).  My wife said that Herzog's purpose in making the film was to humiliate Klaus Kinski.  Given their relationship, I wouldn't be surprised. 

This quote was in the DVD's special features: