Minnesota Bigfoot

http://www.startribune.com/local/78975102.html?elr=KArksUUUU

Bigfoot sighting in Minnesota.

Watch where you step

(Thanks to my brother for this picture.)

This is a sewer tank.

Would be very unpleasant to fall in there.

God made him do it

WLEX-TV reported the man told the guard that God wanted him to steal a Dodge Charger.

- AP/azcentral (link here)

Sounds plausible.

Doomsday

http://www.llewellyn.com/journal/article/2058?utm_source=emagazine1109&utm_medium=email&utm_content=emagazine%2Bnovember%202009&utm_campaign=LEM1109

Interesting article on doomsday predictions.

The 2012 Mayan date is going to be interesting.

Azathoth

http://www.llewellyn.com/journal/article/1973

An inspiration for all who fight for chaos.

The Devil made him do it

A 58-year-old man is blaming the devil for making him hold up a bank in North Branch, Minn., federal authorities say.

- Star Tribune (link here)

Sounds plausible to me.

Kensington Runestone

http://www.startribune.com/local/west/59801142.html?page=1&c=y

Mentions the book "The Hooked X" by Scott Wolter.

Mystery plume

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46526/title/Bubblin%E2%80%99_plume

Yet another X-Files case.

Fortuneteller

He [Nick Nefedro, a self-described Gypsy] argues that fortunetelling is part of his heritage and that prohibiting him from working as a fortuneteller amounts to discrimination.

- Washington Post (link here)

More power to him.

Wagalabagala

http://wagalabagala.com/index.html

I saw him at the Oconomowoc Festival of the Arts today.

I have bought a couple of his prints before.

I should have bought the print "Unfinished Business" today. It is a tribute to chess genius Paul Morphy.

Next time.

Dragonmar

http://www.dragonmar.com/index.html

I saw her at the Donna Lexa Memorial Art Fair (Wales, Wisconsin) today.

I bought a print of "Screech Owl."

Rose fairy

http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/rose-fairy-v4?item=9042&_m=d&trid=353943320

The Arctic Sea

More than a week later, there's no sign of the ship or its Russian crew.

- AP/ajc (link here)

It is an X-Files case.

Krazy Glue

Court documents say the man agreed to be bound with sheets and blindfolded by Ziemann, and that she used Krazy Glue to attach his penis to his stomach.

- AP/azcentral (link here)

Ouch.

Save water

New TV ads are encouraging Brazilians to save water - by urinating in the shower.

- AP/azcentral (link here)

Excellent.

Into the Wild, Part 2

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12975359?source=rss

Yet another tragedy.

Vampires

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/opinion/31deltoro.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Brief, but interesting, essay on the history of vampires.

Tunguska

Night-shining clouds created after space shuttle launches may offer clues into the cause of the Tunguska event, a mysterious blast which rocked southern Siberia more than a century ago.

- Science News (link here)

Interesting ideas.

That Look

Michelle had that look.

The Innsmouth look.

Spooky.

Genie

A family in Saudi Arabia has filed suit in a religious court against an unnamed genie, or jinn, who sounds most unpleasant: It steals cell phones, whispers threats and occasionally flings stones.

- LA Times/azcentral (link here)

Gotta watch out for those genies. They can be a lot of trouble.

Juli Adams

http://www.juliadams.com/

Some very interesting and bizarre paintings.

Willy Wonka

Authorities say a man died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate in a New Jersey processing plant.

- AP/Miami Herald (link here)

Stripper acused of extortion

http://www.startribune.com/local/50140987.html?elr=KArksUUUU

This shows how little I know about the subject.

I thought strippers were supposed to be beautiful.

Dryad

http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/treehuggers-dryad-bundle?item=9383&_m=d&trid=680540487

Naked Hiking Day

"There's no way to explain it until you experience it," said Andrew Williams, 28, a machinist from Warren, Pa., who first hiked naked six or seven years ago. "It's not about being lewd and crude and all that. It's just enjoyment."

- AP/azcentral (link here)

Like a jar of pickled bologna

"Another claimed that although Dillinger's penis was twenty-three inches long flaccid, he was not a great lover because whenever he got an erection he passed out from lack of blood in his brain."

- Elliott J. Gorn (2009) Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One, page 190.

Wow.

Cthulego

(Thanks to Andrew for calling this to my attention.)

http://www.brothers-brick.com/2009/06/15/mark-conjures-monsters-from-the-beyond/

Spooky.

Nightmare

A demon named Jamsek.

He did it for love

A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday.

- AP/azcentral (link here)

I am surprised that they were not able to reattach it.

Nightmare

Difficult to make any money building models in dungeons.

Nightmare

Sprawling mansion and approaching tornado.

Cannot find the stairs to the basement.

Spooky.

Rip Torn

I hope I look this good when I am 78 (link for picture from AP/azcentral here).

Ivory sculpture

A 35,000-year-old ivory carving of a busty woman found in a German cave was unveiled Wednesday by archaeologists who believe it is the oldest known sculpture of the human form.

- AP/azcentral (link here)

Natufians

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1858121,00.html?imw=Y

Interesting article about the burial site of a Natufian shaman.

Twin urinals

Excellent.

Make him fit

"....a macabre rumor began circulating in this small town that the undertaker had to cut off his legs to fit him in the coffin."

- AP/Miami Herald (link here)

Seems like a reasonable solution.

An acrid stench so vile....

The bus driver wrote on a misbehavior form that a 15-year-old teen passing gas on the bus Monday to make the other children laugh, creating a stench so bad that it was difficult to breathe.

- Ap/ajc (link here)

Excellent.

A reaf-life Nissifer.

Satan had a big part

A woman accused of taking more than $73,000 from the Arlington church where she was an administrative assistant blames the devil.

- AP/azcentral (link here)

One thousand witches

Authorities in Gambia have rounded up about 1,000 people and forced them to drink hallucinogens in a witch-hunting campaign that is terrorizing the tiny West African nation, an international rights group said Wednesday.

- AP/azcentral (link here)

A return to the Dark Ages.

Houston in the news

A client list seized by police includes more than 1,500 names, including professional athletes, doctors and lawyers, according to investigators.

- Dallas Morning News (link here)

Pathetic.

Curtie

Did somebody call Curtie?

Demjanjuk

German prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S.

- AP/Las Vegas Review-Journal (link here)

I am amazed bordering on stupification that Israel let him go in the first place.

Egregious error by people that you do not expect to make mistakes like that.

Excellent shirt

Spontaneous combustion

Investigators are baffled as to how a man suffered second- and third-degree burns inside his apartment - even though the only sign of a fire was a candle in the bathroom. Knoxville Fire Department crews found the 56-year-old victim inside his apartment bathroom Monday afternoon with third-degree burns to his face and second-degree burns to his hands.

- AP/Miami Herald (link here)

Witchcraft in Lithuania

In these difficult times for creditors, a Lithuanian debt collector is offering an unconventional service to retrieve arrears: witchcraft.

- AP/azcentral (link here)

It is a dilemna

http://dsquared22.com/blog/2007/01/06/the-dilemma-dilemna/

I grew up in that alternate universe that is mentioned in the above link.

Burnt weenie

"I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else. ..."

- Rajini Narayan, an Australian woman accused of setting her husband's genitals on fire, quoted by AP/azcentral (link here)