Thanks for the MemARRRies (Los Angeles Times)
[Shouldn’t they have posted this on TLAP day? Or perhaps this article belongs on Page 3?]
Iguana be free: Cop captures loose reptile (Daily News).
[I remember the Monkees singing this: “Iguana be free, like the bluebird…”]
Soldiers celebrate holiday relaxing with a hookah (Daily Breeze)
[Are you sure that’s not a typo?]
Lay Is ‘Hiding With Elvis’ (San Francisco Chronicle)
[Now that’s a great euphemism: “Hiding with Elvis”. There are actually loads of great Lay headlines, including “Even at the End, Ken Lay Didn’t Get It” (NY Times) and “Ken Lay’s Last Evasion” (Washington Post).]
Stem Cells Without Moral Corruption (Washington Post)
[No, it’s not about specially engineered stem-cells that produce the religious right. It does make me think about my last post, the one about the song “Keep Your Jesus Off My P…” (NSFW audio – video is safe; lyrics)]
In other news:
- Live Nation to Buy House Of Blues. Live Nation, a spinoff of Clear Channel of Borg (nor relation to Westborg Malls or Microborg), is buying the House of Blues and its related concert venues (eight amphitheaters and 10 clubs), as well as booking rights at five additional venues (on top of the 153 already managed by LiveNation). What does this mean? Probably more music you don’t like on stage.
- Merriam-Webster Updates Dictionary. They are adding words such as “google” (v), “unibrow” (n), “drama queen” (n), “empty suit” (n), “himbo” (n), “bling” (n), “soul patch” (n), “avian influenza” (n), “biodiesel” (n), and my personal favorite, “mouse potato” (n). No, mouse potatoes aren’t related to mouse balls, but rather are the computer equivalent of a “couch potato”, i.e., one who vegges out at the computer. Alright, how many of you are mouse potatoes?
- Pricey License Plates. In China, people are reportedly paying over $10,000 for license plates with 8s on them (8 is a lucky number in that culture, 4 is not). The most expensive plate — AC6688 — fetched $10,000 on a day when officials sold hundreds of plates for a total of $366,500. A man in the city of Hangzhou placed an Internet ad offering to sell his plate , A88888, for about $140,000. Puts a different perspective on buying a personalized plate for $90.
Well, the tea is cool, so off to work it is…
