LAST NIGHT'S PARTY - FRIDAY

Chilling in Soho.

Erin makes a visit to NYC. Mmm, hot and muggy New York afternoons.

Mariya shows no love for the camera. Who the fuck does she think she is? Paris Hilton?

Akash is also visiting NYC.

We then got pizza at my favorite joint (on Thompson and Spring). Mariya eats her pizza really really fast.

We then went back to Kzar's apartment to drink and watch the drama that is The Hills. Kzar is captivated by Heidi's emotional breakup with her boyfriend. Thank you MTV for letting me live vicariously through the lives of 18 year olds.

Look your best ever with Miller Lite.

Akash enjoys the photoshop wonders of Maxim girls.

Akash, she isn't going to become real if you offer her Miller Lite. That only happens in beer commercials.

Cy also stops by. Kzar offers a hungry Cyrus some frozen tacos.

Cab ride downtown.

Heading to Kush. Since we have one too many, Erin hides from the cab driver.

Peace in the middle east.

Some hookah action.

Erin, don't drink that! That's a candle!

A belly dancer gives us a show.

Someone gives her the thumbs up.

That would be Cyrus giving the belly dancer a thumbs up.

Akash using the pick up skills he learned from Maxim.

Cy gets in on the hookah action.

Hanging out in a hookah bar is gangsta.

Group jump!

Kaizar insisting that Erin look at his tongue. "ERIN! LOOK AT MY TONGUE!"

On our way to another bar, I noticed a guy getting his photo taken with a sneaker.

Yeaaa.

We met up with Kenny and his friend.

Cy horrified at being molested by this random chica.

The most action Kzar's gotten in a while--a bike.

Then we got some food at St. Marks.

Cyrus reenacting a scene from LL's new music video.

Passing out.

The End.

MAN IN ARMORED 'DOZER WRECKS TOWN

This is a crazy clip of a pissed off man who destroys a town by driving around in an armored bulldozer, which the police cannot stop.  CRAZY.  Maybe the cops should have a few RPGs in their arsenal. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwFkJMiN1Ak]

UNDERCOVER POLICE LEAD ANTI-WAR GROUP

In May 2003, Oakland police thought it necessary to to infiltrate anti-war groups and in May 2003, two undercover officers got themselves elected to leadership positions.

Two Oakland police officers working undercover at an anti-war protest in May 2003 got themselves elected to leadership positions in an effort to influence the demonstration, documents released Thursday show. The department assigned the officers to join activists protesting the U.S. war in Iraq and the tactics that police had used at a demonstration a month earlier, a police official said last year in a sworn deposition.

[...]

The extent of the officers' involvement in the subsequent march May 12, 2003, led by Direct Action to Stop the War and others, is unclear. But in a deposition related to a lawsuit filed by protesters, Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said activists had elected the undercover officers to "plan the route of the march and decide I guess where it would end up and some of the places that it would go."

For anyone that knows anything about the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 70s, this story ought to remind you of the infamous COINTELPRO program headed by the FBI to suppress and disrupt political dissident groups.  Glad to see that not much has changed.

FUN MOVIE TRIVIA GAME

Test your movie fu knowledge with this fun trivia game.  I got 9 out of 28, which actually felt like quite an accomplishment.

STRIPPER FOUND WITH BODY PARTS

An undated "headshot" of Linda KayAny story that begins with the word "stripper" is bound to be good and by "good" I mean of course, "bizarre" and "strange." And if that stripper is from New Jersey, even better!

A stripper from New Jersey faced criminal charges Wednesday after police found a severed hand and six human skulls in her home.

[...] Officers responded to a report of a man wanting to kill himself with a hammer, but instead discovered a hand inside a jar filled with formaldehyde on a dresser in a bedroom. Six human skulls were found in an upstairs bedroom, South Plainfield Police Capt. Paul Brembt said.

"The Middlesex County medical examiner responded to the scene and determined that the hand and all the skulls were from humans," Brembt said.

The story gets even more bizarre:

Brembt said Kay, who works for Hott 22, a juice bar with topless waitresses in Union, N.J., refused to tell authorities where she got the body parts.

Two people who knew Kay told The Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark that the hand, which Kay nicknamed "Freddy," was given to her by a medical student who frequented Hott 22.

Don't you love how it's a juice bar? I love the entrepreneurial spirit in this country. Who doesn't want their daily wheat grass smoothie made by a topless chick? And what's up with the "medical student" who tips with body parts? Reading this made me feel so normal.

I'm sure the writers at Law and Order and CSI are scrambling to be the first to rip this stripper tale from the headlines.

To read more (and there's a lot more to read)...Click Here.

STAR WARS THEME--BANJO STYLE!

My nerd brain exploded after seeing this guy playing the Star Wars theme on his banjo. [youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQBRSwZiYS4"] This guy should have been on America's Got Talent.  Watching that show and banjo man here makes me wish I was extremely good at some sort of obscure thing, like balancing a shopping cart on my chin, or driving a nail through my nose, or playing a banjo.

I can juggle three objects (as long as it isn't on fire and sharp).  I was once locked out and I successfully picked the lock.  I'm okay at Ultimate Frisbee.  I once watched television for 16 hours straight (other than to get take out food from Johnny Rockets and use the bathroom).

I don't think any of those "skills" will get me on television.

MROD GETS A JOB (AND MY BLOG BECAME POPULAR)

[EDIT] Wow. This is kind of neat. My blog is currently number 12 10 on the most popular Wordpress Blogs of the Day list.  I'm top 10!  Crazy.  Ya'll Bravo Runway fans are nuts and I love it!

Two things.

First, every six months or so, I'll post an entry that for some reasom is highly relevent to some news or cultural event ju jour and thanks to Google and a few message boards, my readership skyrockets in one day from a humble few hundred readers to a thousand, if not thousands. It's happening right now.

I wrote a while ago about some minor potential spoiler to Project Runway--it wouldn't reveal who actually won per se-- and it appears that much of the traffic arriving at my blog is from people that are dang curious about who is going to win this fashion contest.

The other exciting news is that I just got a job offer (and accepted) from a very rad company. This will be the last time I'll probably talk about my job (this blogger ain't gettin' fired). But I'm very excited about this opportunity and starting a new (non-academic) chapter in my life. Go Team MRod!

MUSIC VIDEO FEAT. KAL PENN AND BRANDON ROUTH

This is an amusing, but slightly bizarre music video with one of the members of Lonely Island (which brought you the Chronic-what?-cles of Narnia) and Kal Penn from Harold and Kumar along with a surprising what-the-fuck cameo by Brandon Routh aka Clark Kent aka Superman.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlxhD284RKM]

JOCKEY "ZIDANES" A HORSE

Horse jockey Paul O'Neill was caught on tape head-butting ala Zidane his horse and of course, YouTube is there! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWfr_DfxX4]

Apparently Mr. Ed said something offensive to O'Neill (something about the immorality of his mother), which triggered the jockey's helmeted response.

CONGRATS ROBB!

Congratulations to Robb and his lovely wife on the birth of their new baby! There are now 299,311,410 299,311,411 people living in the US.

NEW CULINARY INVENTION: KIMCHINANA.

At Kzar's earlier today and I made myself a delicious new mixture: Kimchi banana!

Chomp!

Mmm.

VANESSA PAWNS NICK FOR A KISS--JUST A KISS, NICK!

Here's an amusing video clip shot by the paparazzo of Vanessa Minnillo sitting outside at a cafe with Nicholas Lachey as she tries numerous times to squeeze out a kiss from her heartbroken lovah. But Nick knew the papos were across the street and he gives her the denial. While watching the video, I felt that they should have that Sebastian from the Little Mermaid singing "Kiss the Girl." Nick, just kiss de girl!

Is your mind numb yet? No? I have more thoughts on this:

Actually, I don't blame Nick for his wariness with the papos around, because Vanessa strikes me as a bit of a social climber and she might be trying to attach herself to Nick's coattails and step up her own game.

GOOD LUCK TO THE FUTURE LAWYERS OF AMERICA

Best of luck to all the people out there taking the bar exam tomorrow. Just go to your happy place and rock that test!

SLEEPING BEAUTY

Your 2006 Miss Universe is Miss Puerto Rico (Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza) who promptly fainted during the post-crowning press conference because her "dress was too tight" and the room was "too hot." And because she hadn't eaten in 2 week. The highlight of the show undoutedly was the "national costume" part (I actually didn't watch the airing, but apparently a lot of 18 to 49 year olds did). Here are some that I pulled off the Miss Universe website featuring the hottest "national costume" this side of the "It's a Small World After All" ride at Disneyworld:

(As I was typing this, I realized that the second best blogger ever Kev already covered it...whatevs)

This costume helps the Hermit Nation and China forget Japan's past aggressive foreign policy tendencies.

Despite our lone cowboy ways on the diplomatic and political international stage, I've never been ashamed of being an American. Despite Bush, Cheney, Haliburton, secret prisons, Iraq, and our military industrial complex, I've never been ashamed to say I'm American. Until now. This outfit that blondie is wearing makes me ashamed to be an American.

Is she wearing a cape made out of black construction paper that I used in elementary school??

Channeling The Tempest?

This is why I want to go to Australia. Girl is dressed no different than the hot models I see walking around Soho.[EDIT: Just noticed the boomerang!  Hot ya'll!] This is why Americans make fun of Canada. What culture is she suppose to be reflecting? Trashy Vegas variety shows??

The song playing while she walked out: The Wind Beneath My Wings.

Apparently TGIFs is a country. I want my baby back baby back baby back ribs.

I learned from this girl that if I ever go to Croatia, bring an umbrella.

If I was a Peruvian, I'd demand that she cover up her sash because this is downright embarrassing.

Afterwards, Russian President V. Putin lifted up her skirt and kissed her uh "stomach."

SHAMU WATCH #8

And he rode through the village announcing "Shamu is dead!  Shamu is dead!"  All good things eventually come to an end and so it is with the seemingly implacable Shamu essay in the New York Times.  This essay is now nowhere to be found in the top ten of the NY Times Most E-mailed List. It's been a good run and we'll miss ye.

JEN LOVE HEWITT LIKES THE IVIES

I suspect the closest Jennifer Love Hewitt has come to Dartmouth is a used cock in her mouth.

CEASEFIRE?: PICTURES SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS

This cover from The Independent regarding the current crisis in the Middle East is rather revealing and it ought to make one question whether the US foreign policy compass is pointed in the right direction.

MUSIC VIDEO ABOUT MYSPACE

A pretty decent hip hop video poking fun at MySpace. Are you emo enough for it?[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TnlSVKuy34]

(ANOTHER) CAT WITH TWO FACES

It's not an optical illusion and it appears to be a legit story.  A Millbury woman owns a healthy cat that just happens to have two faces.

The cat has two mouths, two noses and two working eyes. A third eye in the middle is not functional. Marty named her cat “Frank and Louie” so each face would have a name. Only one mouth, the one on the cat’s right side — or Frank’s side — is connected to an esophagus, so Frank gets all the food.

I think its kinda cute.

SHAMU WATCH #7

Shamu is now totally hemorrhaging blood--its dropped all the way to the seventh spot, and falling, on the NY Times Most E-mailed List. Just thought you'd like to know.