The three singers of Journey, Steve Perry, Steve Augeri, and most recently Arnel Pineda (discovered from YouTube) "reunite" to sing "Open Arms." [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEKhzHrSXiE&fmt=18]
[Thanks Stan!]
A recently published study by David Atkins at the University of Washington has noted that infidelity has increased among young married couples where "between 1991 and 2006, the numbers of unfaithful wives under 30 increased by 20% and husbands by a whopping 45%."
One explanation for this trend is the higher median age of marriage, which leaves people more time in their premarital relationships to essentially pick up bad habits, such as cheating from one relationship to another. Experiencing a couple break ups of long term relationships also may dilute the repercussions of marital infidelity. In addition, people are less likely nowadays to give up their social network of friends of the same and opposite gender once they are married unlike among the older generation.
Even friendships with members of the same sex generally used to fall by the wayside when people got married or, again, change in scale or importance. Ms. Sollee, who is in her 60s, recalls her own generation's attitude toward them: "The idea that these friendships would take any priority over your husband was unheard of." But she cites a number of 20- and 30-something women she knows who still have "girls' nights out" at bars and even go on vacation with their friends and without their husbands.
Read more here.
Fun winter holiday themed photobooth action.
I'm a big fan of my new look. I think it'll kill with the ladies under the mistletoe.
Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
- Mark Twain
[Thanks Annie!]
Here's Nirvana singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" in 1993 just after appearing on RuPaul's TV show in the UK. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxxqiFMjzU&fmt=18]
I'm getting flannel shirt flashbacks.
Paint porn. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/2386886]
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In 1941 Oregan State's football team made the Rose Bowl for the first time and upset second-ranked Duke. Jack Yoshihara, a Japanese American sophomore reserve on the team couldn't make the trip and instead, per President Roosevelt's excutive orders following the bombings at Pearl Harbor, was sent to an internment camp in Idaho for the duration of the war, along with countless other Japanese Americans and immigrants.
LA Times reports:
In June, Yoshihara was among the Oregon State students of Japanese ancestry, interned during World War II, who were given honorary degrees by the university. After receiving his diploma, Yoshihara was asked to hold up his 1942 Rose Bowl ring, given to him 1985, bringing cheers from the crowd at Reser Stadium.
87-years-old Yoshihara now runs a refrigerator and air conditioning shop in Portland.
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Ashley Simko hits the right note with this shirt:
Want.
Senator Fred Thompson is renting his luxury apartment for next month's inauguration. He wants to git his too!
A source tells us the ex-Republican presidential candidate and part-time actor, who did 142 episodes of "Law & Order," is offering to rent his luxury one-bedroom condo in Washington, DC, for five days. The price: $30,000. "It has a balcony overlooking the inaugural parade route, the Navy Memorial and the US Capitol, and comes with a reserved parking space," said our insider.
The hustle!
African-American student Virginius B. Thornton receiving tolerance training before picketing. This promotional cake for the TV show Prison Break included, predictably a key hidden inside.
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You know this already because all of you are intelligent and brilliant, but zeitgeist of course is a German word meaning "spirit of the times." Aggregating the billions of searches on their site, Google recently released their annual zeitgeist highlights from around the world.
A slip of the tongue when he meant to say "banks," instead British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gets laughed at by the Commons when he states that he "saved the world." [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BsTzXEIK2k&fmtp=18]
Now that they've had their fun can they please work on fixing their own banking crisis?
Who said the following lines? A New Jersey mob boss or a crooked Illinois governor
1. "Unless I get something real good...shit, I'll just send myself, you know what I'm saying."2. "What the fuck am I, a toxic person or something?"
3. "Log off, that "cookies" shit makes me nervous!"
4. "They're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. Fuck them."
5. "You got no fuckin' idea what it's like to be number one. Every decision you make affects every facet of every other fucking thing."
Read rest and check your answers here.
[Thanks Brian!]