The Funniest thing since IAFF: ChatRoulette.com

Completely absurd.

Bananas!

Tumblr of the day:
(via nerviosismo)

Wings aren't just for pantyliners!

The Hellingly Hospital Railway

The Hellingly Hospital Railway was...
The abandoned hair salon in the now derelict Hellingly mental hospital. (Flowy's find.)

Amadou & Mariam - "Sabali"

Cat's in the Cradle Video

via Kuato AKA Edgar AKA Buzzsaw.



The hot Safeway delivery guy who was another only child Californicated product of the free-for-all 70's said this song described his dad perfectly.
I remember my dad playing that song on an 8-Track in a pea green VW van and thought he must have felt that way about his dad too.
But my dad died "unexpectedly" during the first month of the 3rd grade. Since then, I spent a lot of time missing him and feeling sorry for myself, but at least I don’t have anything to hate about him (other than his last wife). It must be far worse to have a living parent who neglects or ignores you. Only children are generally far more sensitive than others IMHO.





MP3 of Sámi soga lávlla

The Crying of Lot JS

Forget fake nails ladies (hint, hint OctoNightmare)...
This season's must have accessory is.....
FAKE TEARS!
Ummm, I don't think she cried for anyone's sins.

Via Cgunit, it appears that tears are trendy in some artistic, Eastern European enclaves...


Nice try Jil!

The Day of the Locust

Dolly, a miniature poodle, yawns as she is groomed backstage. Dolly is treated like a princess as she rests on her pink pillow and dons ribbons of the same color.

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!
OctoWomby launches website to beg for donations!
I won't encourage her with a direct link, but you can find it in the article. There's even a place for comments, but unfortunately you can't see them.

PsychoOctoMom somehow reminds me of this...

Brilliant novel and rather good film too:
The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, depicting the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of individuals who exist at the fringes of the movie industry.

Plot summary
The book follows a young man named Tod Hackett who thinks of himself as a painter and artist, but who works in Hollywood as a costume designer and back ground painter. He falls in love with Faye Greener, an aspiring starlet who lives nearby. Between his work in the studio and his introduction to Faye's friends, he is soon interacting with numerous Hollywood hangers-on, including a cowboy who lives in the hills above the studios and works as an extra in cowboy movies, his Mexican friend who keeps fighting cocks, and Homer Simpson, a hapless businessman whom Faye is taking advantage of. The book ends with a riot at a movie premiere.
Further commentary to follow
after I get a decent bowl of hot and sour soup for dinner.

I'm sorry, but Octomommy never ceases to Disgust me.

Octuplets' Mom Receiving Public Assistance

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!
Given the number of Australians (or people who live in Australia) around here, I thought others might appreciate this Australian Octo-perspective I posted at Flowing Heat's place earlier today:
NADYA Suleman must be a closet Monty Python fan.
Searching for the meaning of life, the mother of 14 children - including octuplets - turned to the film of the same name, with its rousing theme song:
Every sperm is sacred...

Nadya Suleman's retired mom has filed bankruptcy, been foreclosed on and takes care of her six previous IVF kids while her Dad is forced to return to Iraq, yet she somehow manages to afford repeated IVF in Beverly Hills, a Michael Jackson nose job, a wannabe Angelina Jolie fish-lip job, French manicure and god knows what else (courtesy of milking the state and federal government)..?
And she hasn't worked in 8 f-ing years!!!! WTF?


This sick woman is a shining example of
Everything
That is Just
So Fucking Wrong these days.
I wish I could keep my eyes off the train wreck, because it annoys me so much, but I can't.
STERILIZE HER NOW!

In other news that pisses me off Canada continues their pointless slaughter of seal pups.

Happy Fishnet Friday - the Red & Black Edition

Retrolife

Happy Fishnet Friday! We made it through another week. Woohoo!

For Muriel's continued NSFW Fishnet Friday fun check out Nuclear Tentacles.

Red and Black by ~Late-Bloomer27

As I commented earlier, the octu-baby generator Nadya Suleman's story just keeps getting more and more unbelievable. Perhaps she should start a blog like Casey Serin. Not only does the Suleman drama include foreclosure, bankruptcy, an unemployed adult living with their parents and government assistance, but 14 f-ing kids and in vitro fertilization and God knows what else will surface. This is beyond insane!

Laid Back Pin up by ~erikfoxjackson

Harlem Shakes - "Winter Water"
Fearing Words and Punishment
... Stupefaction ...

H/T Wagga for this find: Street View vehicle kills Bambi

Oh, this is so fucking groovy:

Fearing Words and Punishment
posted by Dan
Harlem Shakes - "Winter Water"
A worm runs away from home. A short note in the middle of the night, and across the field in the rain. Out of breath and hearts racing, worm reaches the city limits and turns back only for a second before heading out into the cold open air. Barely stopping to sleep, worm eventually meets others, a new gang of friends. Starts a new life, and for weeks doesn't even think about back home. Until one day worm mistakes a worm for someone he knew back home. A beautiful young worm, reminded him of a worm, a special worm, who of course wouldn't still be so young. But it all came flooding back. Now worm sees leaves and bark and earth and water, and thinks, "Yeah, worm would like this." And at nights in the new life, worm finds himself thinking, too much, of a worm.

Doug Randle - "Coloured Plastics". What seems at first like a jingle is in fact a wistful complaint, or rather it's a jingle for post-industrial angst; a psych-pop ditty that sounds as good now as it must have in 1971, warm & catchy & spry. Listening to Randle's rediscovered and reissued masterpiece, Songs For The New Industrial State, it's an outright travesty that he's been left out of the canon. And not just the Canadian pop canon; this is the stuff of John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, the Velvet Underground's Loaded. He quotes Simon & Garfunkel here (sorta), but it's to connect the dots between their NutraSweet folk-music and this world's plastic-wrapper gloss. Nostalgia's a complicated thing in a cellophane present: even the most beleaguered hearts get some battery-powered sun.
Sister Suvi - "Longlegs"

Parable of the Madman

God is dead
and we have killed him!
The time has come to face up to the fact that this planet has become nothing more than a hamster cage of ongoing BS....

Even dumber than Bush…? WTF is this woman trying to say?

PALIN'S UNIQUE SPIN ON THE BAILOUT....
Couric asked Palin, "Why isn't it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more, and put more money into the economy, instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?"

Palin, in a rambling and largely incoherent response, responded, "That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it's got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and getting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade -- we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We've got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation."

I'm sorry, what? Did she even hear the question?

Palin feels mocked by her supposed Haterz:

COURIC: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

PALIN: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land-- boundary that we have with-- Canada. It-- it's funny that a comment like that was-- kind of made to-- cari-- I don't know, you know? Reporters--

COURIC: Mock?

PALIN: Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah.

COURIC: Explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials.

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our-- our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia--

COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state.

With VP candidates like this, no wonder our country is going down the toilet and an international joke!

Pink Octopus Rides Large Koi, Christ Carwash Babes and Crazy Casey Serin

Silly crap like this helps me get my mind off of poor Colin, the whale calf who lost his mother and his life.



In case you missed it in the comments section, this Chinese Christ carwash calendar is pretty bizarre:
Mitchell said...
Strangeness alert: the People's Daily (China) serializes a car wash calendar issued by "Christ Wash Systems". Funny to see "the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China" (Wikipedia) featuring this stuff, but I guess it's been forty years since the Cultural Revolution...
August 20, 2008 9:19 PM


Casey Serin has officially lost his mind if he thinks anyone other than MOCHA or Monica wants to see him in bed.

Is that a skinned baby seal?

Kumi via SugarCut

I’d sure like to know the story behind this image. Perhaps those gloves are made of seal skin and fur.

Open Wide for Random Insanity!

Open Wide!

Saint Sebastian Shibari (NSFW) at Nietzche Koi

Japanese emperor examines tanuki crap for science at Edgar's Toilet

Grunting Fish

Bolinas fancies itself special. The town keeps a "free box" outside the natural foods store for anyone to donate or pick up clothes or household items. A few years ago, it passed a ballot measure officially declaring itself "a socially acknowledged, nature-loving town" that likes blueberries, bears and skunks. The town saloon has the word "peace" outside, written in seashells.

Koi Kihagaki at 6 Degrees of Casey Serin

Call Me Ishmael-san: "Japanese Whale Hunt" (NSFW)

BTW this is a work in progress - more to follow!

In other news, I'm rather pissed with HP Keith's suggestion that Pelosi's degree of failure is anywhere near as bad as George W. WTF? I'm not too pleased with the crap Congress has been up to lately, but that is utter and complete BS. I can't think of a speaker of the house in my lifetime who I was terribly pleased with - nor a president for that matter - but George W. Bush's egregious failures on all counts makes Nixon look like a pretty good guy. George W has been a major, fucking, historical disaster - I can only assume was designed to errode this country to nothing. I guess Keith spends too much time vacationing in Europe to get his head out of his ass.

One dollar koi and such

One dollar koi_new ver. side by *orudorumagi11
Other than a brief perusal of the NYT, I've been offline and fallen behind on my regular level of info-saturation. As I make up for lost time, I thought Mitchell’s recent comment was well worth highlighting for further discussion:
Mitchell said...
Pardon me for being boring but I'd like to brood aloud on this GSE bailout thing for a moment. It's all good; half the effect here comes from the conjunction of koi-eating octopi and mortgage securitization, right? So someone has to step up and post a comment as if this were just another housing-bubble econoblog. (Actually, it's just a lot more fun to talk about this stuff here than at the more serious places.)

So, at first it sounds bigger than subprime, much bigger. You have these two New-Deal-era institutions which own or securitize half the country's mortgages, $6trn worth. Those are their assets; but their liabilities, in the form of promised payments to bondholders, are just as big. And since housing prices are still falling, the value of their assets will shrink, and their balance sheets will end up massively in the red - which may add several trillion more dollars to the already huge ($10trn) federal debt.

Now hold on! - says the counterargument. Yes, houses may fall a lot further in value, but the GSEs own the mortgages, most of them originated pre-2005. A decline in the paper value of the house does not affect the value of the mortgage, unless it increases the risk of default, and that should only apply to people who have already tried to cash in a large part of the alleged value of their house, e.g. by taking out home equity loans. Which will be some of them, but overall the mortgages owned by the GSEs are a whole lot more reliable than the subprime ninjas were, right? So maybe their asset base won't decline too greatly in value after all.

But consider this (says the counter-counter-argument): this is the year of the great food and fuel crisis, in which the price of everything basic is going through the roof. Even if we ignore the effects of asset deflation, the simple increase in the cost of living is going to affect the ability of many people to keep up the mortgage payments, and some of them are going to default.

That's where my ability to argue with myself runs out, because to go any further you need some numbers for prospective default rates and I don't have them. Maybe someone at Calculated Risk does. Meanwhile, I'd like to point out the amazing facts about who the GSE bondholders are, i.e. the people they owe that $6trn to. It seems bizarre that the Chinese and Russian central banks should each own a slice of the American mortgage market, supposedly just as valuable as 10% of their entire national economies. It seems bizarre, and yet I feel that if I keep digging, eventually I'll come upon some set of relationships which sum up the totality of the global economy: who owns what, who owes what. It'll be like when Neo first gets his "Matrix vision". And then, as the world's foremost financial shaman puts it, the money will burn in my head forever after.
July 14, 2008 5:44 AM

dollar kois by *orudorumagi11
Don't miss the dollar toilet bowl featured at Edgar's Toilet!


Koi Pond by *orudorumagi11

Slime-Green Pools Spread to Kansas City!

It is not just in California anymore!
The Casey Virus™ continues to spread...

Hat tip (again) to Wagga for this find:

Some nights Terry and Carrie Madden won’t even step onto their patio in Waldo — the stench and mosquitoes from the abandoned swimming pool next door are
overpowering.

The Maddens’ cash-strapped neighbors moved out in August, and the lender on the now-vacant house let it fall into disrepair. The pool is slime-green.

Their foreclosures delayed, vacant homes fall into disrepair

Don't miss the slime-green video!

And the Moon over Marin Slouch in hiFi:

Thorazine for Children!

Thorazine advertisement, 1959

for prompt control of
nausea and vomiting
in children
THORAZINE* Syrup
and Suppositories
In the over 1,500,000 children in whom 'Thorazine' has been
used, jaundice or agranulocytosis has never been reported.

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Sara Goldfarb spotted at the Democratic Party’s RBC meeting!

Is she not Sara Goldfarb from Requiem for a Dream? It would seem she took a few too many of the purple pills before the Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting.

Pure Morning: part 1 by ~evilcheshirecat
Artist's Comments
“Purple in the morning, blue in the afternoon, orange in the evening, and green at night. Just like that: one, two, three, four.”– Sara Goldfarb
(You have to see the movie in order to really feel the intensity of the reality of dreams. It's morbid and harsh, but 100% true.)


Pure Morning: part 2 by ~evilcheshirecat
Artist's Comments
“You make me feel like a person. Like I’m me… and I’m beautiful.”- Marion

“You are my dream.”- Harry Goldfarb

“Somebody like you can really make things alright for me.”- Harry Goldfarb

“In the end, it’s all nice.” –Sara Goldfarb

Cara Cakes wishes you a Happy Fishnet Friday!

Cara Cakes Campy 1 '08 by ~vcateyesv

Cara Cakes Campy 2 '08 by ~vcateyesv

On this Fishnet Friday Cara Cakes would like to give Edgar Alpo a big hug!

Do you think Cara is aggravating global warming?

Counterpoint:

Zillow Book features a Fishnet Friday extravaganza!

Yutaro the Koi Boy

The Adventures of Yutaro via Neatorama

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!
Despite the fact that this guy is a McSame enthusiast, I shall link to the video due to the other aspects I agree with:

Hat tip to Edgar.

Hate Hillary? Vent here.

I seriously need some Beavis and Butthead therapy.