And Damnit, He's Good Enough

Democrat and funny man, Al Franken, finally given the official win on the Minnesota State Senate race.

Yay! Yay! (accent on the 2nd "yay", as my little grandson says)

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Furious Vulvas

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Chocolate vulvas, you say? Looks like a vagina to me! Actually, the vulva is the external female genitals, the vagina is all internal. Anyway, the point is that there is an awful lot of penis-shaped chocolate out there, and we here at Lagusta’s Luscious feel it is our duty to do something to correct that imbalance.

This chocolate is really, really good, too—filled with sweetly peppery pink peppercorns and Hawaiian alaea sea salt that is naturally reddish pink because of the intense amount of healthy minerals in the volcanic Hawaiian soil.

There's a bit of a marketing stretch in my opinion to connect the "Vandanas" to Vandana Shiva but, take that, all you chocolate penises of the world. Let's hear it for the girls!

(With apologies to BD, Leopard Skin Pill-Box hat tip goes out to Anne of Ample Sanity who always has the goods.)

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Natural Born Quints

The Davis quintuplets were born Tuesday in Johnson City Medical Center. (Photos by Ron Campbell/Johnson City Press and James Watson/MSHA)

It's a boy, a boy, a boy, a girl and a girl – local mother delivers quints

from the website: Statics show naturally conceived quintuplets come only once in every 65 million births. And it happened without a hitch Tuesday night at Johnson City Medical Center (Tennessee) with the delivery of five healthy babies to Carter County mother Virgie Davis and her husband.

Natural quintuplets? No fertility drugs? And she had her tubes tied after her two children (ages 8 and 10) were born? Makes you think, doesn't it?

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Bird In The Hand

Yikes! Is she actually holding a bird's head? Nice illos and sculptures here at Kate Street's.

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Creative Grooming?

Seriously? I mean, seriously? I can understand that there are all kinds of people in the world that want to fix up their pets in some particular way. But for other people to give them awards for their "artistic grooming" just boggles the fucking mind.

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Titus Kaphar, Artist

I like how the woman pulls George Washington, the Father Of Our Country, down onto her lap. "There's a good little president." Titus Kaphar, Artist | via Right Some Good

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Felix Cane

I'm not a big pole dancing fan but I am a dance fan after having had 10+ years (ballet, tap, jazz, acrobatics) of it growing up and I appreciate a good dancer.

Felix Cane is one extraordinary dancer. She's very strong and sensual and I find it hard to take my eyes off of her. Her very last pole trick will be where she defies gravity as she twirls around and around.

Flipping around on the telly last night I saw her with the group Zumanity, a sensual act from Cirque du Soleil. Further examination told me that she was the World Champion Pole Dancer but it's her dancer's skills that probably nailed it for her.

The above video is from her appearance on Conan last night and her YouTube site can be seen at this YouTube link.

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Retro iPod via 1960s

Did you ever have a transistor radio? They ran on batteries and radios were the only way to listen to music besides playing the actual 45 record or album on your stereo.

Nights were best for picking up the larger AM radio stations. I could get Fort Wayne, Indiana's WOWO station and they played all the new stuff. And WLS in Chicago was also good. I was thrilled and listened way up into the night to all the new music.

In the early 60s there was Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Herman's Hermits, Dave Clark Five, The Beatles, Beach Boys, Peter and Gordon, Everly Brothers, James Brown. Good times!

Retrolife is a fun website of the good old days.

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Why We Protest - IRAN

Even if a ballot is silenced, the voice behind it cannot be.

The people behind the brunt of Iran Twitter information. link

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Is Britt Govea the new Bill Graham?

Britt Govea is building a music empire by doing his own thing, in Big Sur and beyond.

"BRITT CREATES A SETTING WHERE GOING TO THE SHOW IS LIKE GOING ON A PSYCHEDELIC TRIP."

Govea has been compared to great concert promoters of the past likethe late Bill Graham without the cutthroat business instincts. Proof positive: Rolling Stone magazine recently named him and Folk Yeah "Hot Promoter" in their annual "Hot List" issue under the headline: "Super Furry Entrepreneurs."

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Tehran morgue demands 'bullet fee' for release of body

What kind of no-good sorry bastard thinks that killing someone is not enough pain to inflict on one family?

"Damn, I've only just killed her. What else can I do to wig her family the fuck out?"

The family of a 19-year-old Iranian killed during clashes between security forces and protesters says officials demanded a $3,000 "bullet fee" before they could claim his body at the morgue, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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Subversive Jewelry

Justin Giunta's Subversive Jewelry won a prestigious 2009 CFDA award recently. His wondrously designed pieces are random genius.

Some of it is a little pricey but those creative ones could take a queue from his designs and pull out your old pearls, broken chains and loose stones and see what you can come up with.

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MY NEW WEB SITE

Welcome in. It's time for a change. 8D

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First look: What a weird 'Wonderland' Burton's made

Eccentric: Johnny Depp is unrecognisable as the pasty, ginger Mad Hatter
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The chatty flowers in Alice in Wonderland take their cue from the talkative trees in The Wizard of Oz.
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A Universal Declaration Of Resistance To Mandatory Vaccines

We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determination. Any attempted violation of this trust must be construed as a breach of said basic right. We are thus holding our elected Governments accountable in this defense with an issuance of notice: a preemptive Class Action Lawsuit to be served in the event our inalienable rights to choose are forsaken.

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Civilization by Marco Brambilla

Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.

Civilization is a video installation we created with artist/director Marco Brambilla for the elevators Standard Hotel in NYC. It's comprised of over 400 video clips and it takes elevator passengers on a trip from hell to heaven as they go up or from heaven to hell as they go down. Pictures of the installation and Q&A with Brambilla and Crush is posted here glossyinc.com/civilization.html.

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Poem From the Rooftops of Iran

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AnOtherMan

The current AnOtherMan magazine has many good articles in it.

There's one on Patrick Wolf, Thurston Moore, John Galliano, Werner Herzog, Jason Spaceman, and the Style Icon section has Cerith Wyn Evans on Aleister Crowley, Thomas Engle Hart on Brian Jones, Bobby Gillespie on Johnny Thunders, and Veronique Branquinho on Jacques Dutronc.

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Brooklyn Artist Swoon

Brooklyn Artist Swoon's latest adventure.

Barging In to Venice

The Brooklyn artist Swoon and her merry band of anarchists from deepest Bushwick are invading the Venice Biennale this week—on boats built from garbage. New York City garbage.

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AnOtherMan Magazine

The current AnOtherMan magazine has many good articles in it. One on Patrick Wolf, Thurston Moore, John Galliano, Werner Herzog, Jason Spaceman, and the Style Icon section with Cerith Wyn Evans on Aleister Crowley, Thomas Engle Hart on Brian Jones, Bobby Gillespie on Johnny Thunders, and Veronique Branquinho on Jacques Dutronc.

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Banksy's back: Bristol project revealed

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HITCHKING FOR FUN AND PROFIT

To answer the question, "why?" is because it was a different world back then; and because I was very naivè adventurous.

The first time I hitchhiked I was 18 and ended up traveling all over the southeast for a couple of years. Once my friend and I (we both had cars) were thumbing and decided to "spare change" everyone we got a ride with. Bright idea so we thought except when we got to our destination we were still broke. My friend was keeping the money in her jeans. The ones that had a hole in the back pocket. We got to Nashville late at night. We didn't know one single person, we were broke, cold and hungry and we didn't see any freaks hanging out at 3am to help a fellow traveller out so we ended up going to jail for loitering.

Some areas would arrest you for hitchhiking, but you usually didn't wait long at all so the cops never got a chance to see you. I always thumbed with somebody and never went alone. Phil B and I hitchhiked to the Atlanta Pop festival at Piedmont Park and so were blasted by the time we got there that we missed a lot of the good stuff. If you were traveling in the early 70s,especially to a concert, those highways were full of fellow "travelers" who were stocked with a good supply of weed and music.

I picked up most every roadside hippie (i always hated that word) I saw back then. You could I still mull it over for a nanosecond when I see someone thumbing and my husband still picks up people in distress.

After all he is the original Zig Zag man.

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Newt Gingrich Declares: "I Am Not A Citizen Of The World!"

Newt Gingrich Declares: "I Am Not A Citizen Of The World!"

This evening at a Washington DC fundraiser, in a statement that can best be described as regressive American exceptionalism, former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich said of himself:

"I am not a citizen of the world. I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous!"

Clearly Gingrich's "I'm not a citizen of the world" is a slam on Obama after the President's recent Mid-East & Europe tour. But undermining Obama's global popularity won't alter the fact that Gingrich could never achieve such acceptance. In the ever blending global arena, Gingrich is consistently bland.

Mr. Gingrich, if you are NOT a citizen of this world, then stay the eff out of it. Go back where you were ten years ago when you were forced from the House in disgrace.

BRAVO!

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Rachel Lyra

Rachel Hospodar

Rachel designs and creates for all the right reasons. Not like the plastic chotchkes that will someday add to the planet's overextended waistline, but creating as a wise steward of this planet.

Her philosophy:
Stop throwing so much stuff out.
Use natural materials where possible.
The best way to recycle is to reuse.
Use less.

Her Projects:

Medium Reality - accessories handmade from felt and recycled materials

Pandora's Trunk - a San Francisco fashion/art party and trunk show

Accessories & Other Uncommon Delights

Textile Art - Studio creations and featured product lines

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She really inspires me and makes me want to throw some fabric on the machine.

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Yeasayer Update

YEASAYER News

From the website:

It has fallen quiet on the blog because Yeasayer has left their retreat to practice for some upcoming summer shows! These gigs will feature a new stage line up as well as the band playing tracks from the forthcoming record due later later later. Expect news on a fabulous October tour happening somewhere in Europe!!!

Tour dates are here: http://www.nowwearefree.com/tours.html

The band will return to finish their next long player after their summer shows and we hope to have a final long-player in the can by September. We are pushing for a single in October and the full length release in the first part of 2010. Trust me, its not that far away.

Enjoy your summer.

Sir James Winnie
Yeasayer Manager

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*I like the forthcoming record part the best.

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Name That Schlong

"Name That Schlong" Contest

Take the Green Porno challenge and NAME THAT SCHLONG!! Unlike any match game youve ever played, this contest will force you put all your green porno knowledge to the test. Click through our brand new, grand gallery of penises and match these notorious members with their appropriate owners.

Is it a cow? A Barnacle? A tortoise? A slug? Find out and NAME THAT SCHLONG NOW!

START GUESSING

To help you find the proper penis, we have posted a Green Porno "Grand Gallery of Penises" on Sundancechannel.com.

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Take a Trip to Johnny Depp’s Private Island

With no handlers or publicists in sight, Brinkley (Douglas Brinkley from Vanity Fair), Depp, and three of the actor’s best friends set off from the Bahamas on Depp’s yacht to a 45-acre tropical paradise called Little Hall’s Pond Cay. Here are some choice nuggets from Brinkley’s travelogue:

About the yacht:

• Depp’s yacht is a 156-foot, steam-powered boat called Vajoliroja, an amalgam of the names of his partner (singer/actress Vanessa Paradis), himself, and their children, Lily Rose and Jack. There are pirate-themed touches throughout, and the ship flies the Jolly Roger alongside its official Marshall Islands flag.

About the island:

• Depp named one of the six beaches on his island Gonzo, for Hunter S. Thompson (others are named Paradis, Lily Rose, Jack, and Brando, after his partner, kids, and other great mentor). Gonzo Beach features glass tables with Thompson’s face etched in the center.

• Depp says, “I don’t think I’d ever seen any place so pure and beautiful. You can feel your pulse rate drop about 20 beats. It’s instant freedom.”

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