Tales of True Crime

I'm not going to turn this into a News of The Weird True Crime Blog or anything, but this is weird stuff. (Carson)Some weird, wild stuff...(/Carson)

This Is Why I Avoid Canadian Mass-Transit
You never know when you'll be minding your own business, listening to your iPod, and some syrup-huffing drifter is going to decide to stab you a couple of dozen times and cut off your head. It just happens. No reason.

Saudi God Cop Breaks Religious Law
Four wives is perfectly legal, but six is apparently a no-no. You would think that he would know this stuff, since he's responsible for enforcing it... Bad cop! A fatwa on donuts for you!

Bad Serbs, Bad Serbs, Whatcha Gonna Do?
Of course there were demonstrations in favor of genocidal douchebag Radovan Karadzic, who spent his last days of freedom hanging out at the Pinoccio Pizzeria in a low-budget Dumbledore disguise. Why would you even be surprised at that?

A CTV Original

"Hey, wait a second. CTV? I'm not in Canada."

I'd been watching yet another Scrubs rerun on WGN last night when it ended and the next show began. The familiar CTV logo popped up and the next show started. It was a show I hadn't seen before called Corner Gas. It wasn't until the show actually started that it really registered that it was a Canadian show.

It was funny. You should watch it.

Canadalabama

This just in from the Weekly World N... what the hell? ...from the BBC?

Girl Could Give Birth to Own Sibling She's seven and it's her mom's idea. Yeah. It's chock full of creepy.

Dale, aren't you supposed to be keeping an eye on things up there? Canada is supposed to be the more civilized, less Jerry Springery country here. I'm rather disappointed.

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Check out my mad polling skillz: Wikipedia has Steve Buscemi listed as both an indie actor and a character actor. He can't be both. He was Mr. Pink, for god's sake. That has to count for something! But he was also Ellen's dad on Pete and Pete. What gives? Is he fish or fowl? Or meat... or err... tofu? You vote while I get this metaphor back on track.

Also, Becks let us all in on the fabulous FineTune plug in. I have to fi... um... make some small adjustments to my playlist, but it's up and running amidst the staggering amount of crap in my sidebar. Give it a spin. Even if you hate my song choices, blow through enough of them and you'll at least get a mildly amusing message from the folks at fine tune. Have at it!
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Thank Diebold

The votes from the Reader's Choice poll are in. Things were neck and neck for a while, but Dale put Hunter Spot Thompson out in front and it never looked back.

The final votes, courtesy of Diebold and Gahanna, OH, are:

The Obvious: 258
Zero: -3.1417
Hunter Spot Thompson: 260
George Bush: 3893

I think something is amiss, so I'm going to award the election to Hunter Spot Thompson. HST will be my avatar until I get bored and decide to change it. In the event that Hunter Spot Thompson cannot fulfil his duties, or if inappropriate images of Hunter Spot Thompson turn up on the internet, The Obvious, as runner-up, will step in to fulfil those duties.

Thanks everyone!

It's Friday, Everybody's Doing it.

I was going to write something about the evils of Open Access publishing, but I'm all out of enthusiasm. Instead you get this. Enjoy. Or not. Whatever.

iPod Shuffle: The Unhinged Coworker Mix

1. Heart in a Cage - The Strokes
2. Deadbeat Club - B52s
3. Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge
4. Going Back to Cali - LL Cool J
5. Push It - Garbage
6. Fix Me - Black Flag
7. A Hole In The Wallet - Gang of Four
8. Ma & Pa - Fishbone
9. Times Like These - Foo Fighters
10. In These Shoes - Kirsty MacColl

1. Heart... Strokes... there's probably a joke in there somewhere.
2. They're everywhere today.
3. My wife really hates these guys.
4. He had a hillarious cameo last night on 30 Rock. "Go get my nose back."
5. If she'd had a TV show in the fifties, it would have been My Favorite Manson.
6.-8. Eighties goodness.
9. Nine, nine, I forget what nine is for. Wait... that's not right.
10. Blame Dale. Como se puede bailar? Es un escandolo.