Hernando man run over by own truck after his dog puts it in gear
Joel Anderson, Times Staff Writer | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | www.tampabay.com
RIDGE MANOR — Searching for oil leaks underneath his pickup truck, Christopher Bishop placed his Ford F-150 in neutral and left the driver’s door open.
Unwittingly, Bishop also left himself vulnerable to his rambunctious bulldog, Tassey.
According to a Hernando County Sheriff’s Office report, Tassey hopped into the truck and jumped around in the front seat, knocking it into gear and causing it to roll over the left side of Bishop’s body.
Bishop, 43, was transported to Pasco Regional Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Farewell Boa Sr. Your passing is a reminder to us all of how large, diverse and fragile our world and our humanity is.
Boa Sr, the last speaker of the Bo language of the Andaman Islands, has died. Photograph: Alok Das/Survival/Survival
Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies
Death of Boa Sr, last person fluent in the Bo language of the Andaman Islands, breaks link with 65,000-year-old culture
Jonathan Watts | guardian.co.uk | 4 February 2010 16.28 GMT
The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world’s oldest cultures.
Boa Sr, who lived through the 2004 tsunami, the Japanese occupation and diseases brought by British settlers, was the last native of the island chain who was fluent in Bo.
I think if the personal sexual behavior and histories of candidates are points of interest in elections their parenting skills should be too. One could argue, treatment of one’s own children is more important than sexual history in gauging the principles of a candidate.
Divorce hurts. Statistics show that men, fare better financially post divorce then their spouse. If children are involved, typically the children suffer financially along with the mother, who is typically the custodial parent.
John Mantooth apparently has treated his daughter poorly. When the several times divorced Mr Mantooth recently ran for a primary his daughter was motivated to start a multi media campaign www.donotvoteformydad.com.
John Mantooth won the primary, we’ll see if he wins the election.
This image provided by Andrew and Jan Schill is of a political advertisement attacking Jan Schill's father, McClain County, Okla. judicial hopeful John Mantooth. The ad, which reads "Do not vote for my dad!" and features a picture of the daughter's family, also highlights cases in which Mantooth has been sued and a website the couple started.(AP Photo/Andrew and Jan Schill) NO SALES
Daughter urges Okla. voters to not vote for father
By SEAN MURPHY | Jul 26, 2010
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma judicial candidate is fending off a political attack from his daughter, who has taken out a local newspaper ad urging voters: “Do not vote for my dad!”
McClain County judicial hopeful John Mantooth’s daughter and son-in-law paid for the quarter-page advertisement, which features a picture of the daughter’s family, highlights cases in which Mantooth has been sued and lists a website the couple started, http://www.donotvoteformydad.com.
Mantooth said the bad blood stems from his 1981 divorce from his daughter’s mother.
“This is a family issue which should have been kept private,” he said Monday. “I’m very sad about this. I’m very disappointed. I’m hurt, but I love my daughter, and I want things to get better, and I hope they will.”
Men accused of beating Porky Pig at theme park
www.wafb | Jul 16, 2010 11:46 AM
GURNEE, Ill. (AP) – Police said authorities at Six Flags Great America ejected two off-duty employees from the theme park after they allegedly attacked a female colleague dressed as “Porky Pig.” Gurnee Police Sgt. Jon Ward says two young men took a photo with Porky on Monday afternoon, and then punched the mascot in the head 10 to 15 times.
Ward said park security detained the men until police arrived. He said the men wereissued local ordinance citations for battery.
He said the suspects denied the attack, but witnesses confirmed the story.
The 24-year-old woman inside the mascot costume suffered headaches and a stiff neck.
William Blake etching with his handwritten caption, 'Everything is an attempt/To be human,' at Tate Britain in London. Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features
'Everything is an attempt to be human.' One of the lost etchings by William Blake, now on display at Tate Britain
Tate Britain makes room for William Blake art found in railway timetable
Mark Brown | August 11, 2010 | www.guardian.co.uk
Curator says of eight tiny, hand-coloured works tackling big themes: ‘It’s probably best not to get into too much detail’
When viewing the tiny, hand-coloured etchings of figures being burned alive and hair being washed in blood it is fine, the curators say, to be bemused and baffled. “They are strange,” said Philippa Simpson. “Impenetrable, really, even for scholars.”
The eight hand-coloured works by William Blake, an artist as bizarrely eccentric as he was visionary, are also remarkable. Today they went on display at Tate Britain in London as part of a rehang which sees nine rooms and 170 works devoted to the Romantics.
The Blakes are being displayed as part of the national collection for the first time after being acquired for the nation last year, and their history is almost as eye-catching as their content. For years their whereabouts were unknown until someone bought a box of secondhand books at a north London sale and discovered the etchings in the leaves of an old railway timetable.
Before the jump this post is SFW. After the jump NSFW.
Kathy Griffin did a great job drumming up publicity for herself and public awareness of the simple, safe, life saving pap smear test recently.She also got scads of publicity of herself by getting vajazzled before her public pap. More gratuitous, and graphic vajazzle pics after jump.
Click here and here for previous vjazzle posts, and I’ll include this alternate spelling, too – vagazzle.
Kathy Griffin: Who Wants to See Her Vajazzled Hoo-Ha?
Apr. 15, 2010 | by Marc Malkin | eonline.com
Kathy Griffin is hoping to do for Pap smears what Katie Couric did for colonoscopies.
And taking a page right out of the newswoman’s handbook, Griffin will televise—yes, televise—herself undergoing the cancer screening test.
She’ll show it on her hit Bravo series, My Life on the D-List because, well, she couldn’t get a Couric-esque outlet to do it…
Poor Mr. Svenden thought he had cancer and was very uncomfortable. He must be so relieved. I wish him a speedy recovery. Last year a Russian man had a similar experience with a fir tree sprouting in his lung.
Some have argued “how can seeds sprout without sun?” I reply, planting a seed for most plants usually means putting them deep into the dirt, where they don’t get sun.
Pea sprouting in man’s lung
Beth Alteri, Producer | August 12, 2010 | /www.wcsh6.com
BREWSTER, Massachusetts (NBC)– A man that thought his coughing was caused by emphysema got quite a shock. Turns out, Ron Sveden had a different problem sprouting in his lungs.
For months, the 75 year old had been coughing and his health was deteriorating. When he went to the doctor’s they were unable to find anything wrong, other than Sveden’s emphysema. An x-ray finally revealed the real problem wasn’t a tumor growing in his lung, but rather a pea sprouting.
Sveden says, “I was told that I had a pea seed in my lung that had split and had sprouted.”
Tila Tequila did not do a good job of handling the unruly crowd at The Gathering of the Juggalos, an Insane Clown Posse event. The crowd pelted her with a variety of things that according to various sources may have included, stone, rocks, “stone rocks,” beer bottles, water balloons filled with urine, batteries, feces, various liquids, firecrackers and after she had taken off her shirt at least one hoodie or jacket.
The crowd then chased her offstage, broke out the windows of the trailer where she sought refuge then broke out the windows of the SUV she escaped in.
At first it seems funny. Ms Tequilla is a nebulous celebrity at best and her music skills seem weak and a poor fit for “outsider music” event The Gathering. But violence of this magnitude is not good.
According to some sources, the attack was premeditated by event organizers via TWEET. Classy guys.
Tila Tequila suffers cuts, but escapes juggalos attack
By Alan Duke | CNN | August 15, 2010
(CNN) — Reality TV star Tila Tequila suffered facial cuts when she was pelted with rocks and bottles while performing at a music festival in Illinois early Saturday, according to a witness and a law enforcement official.
“She’s pretty cut up,” said a performer who saw the violence at the “Gathering of the Juggalos” in rural Hardin County, Illinois. The witness asked not to be identified so that he does not anger the juggalos.
Tequila, a Playboy model who also sings, posted a Twitter message Saturday, saying she would sue the festival, which is organized for fans of the hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse.
“Pretty soon, the owners who run the juggalos will be bankrupt,” she tweeted.
The fans are mostly young people who sometimes wear clown make up and are referred to as juggalos and juggalettes.
Festival organizers did not immediately respond to CNN requests for a response.
Emma Joan and Taylor Nalani Bailey were born conjoined from waist to sternum and sharing one heart. Their prognosis was so grim they spent their first 18 months in hospice. But they lived, so their parents took them home.
They had 3 brothers and a sister and lived a life that was normal to them. Wanting the best for their daughters their parents consulted with medical specialist all over the world on the girls unique condition and surgical options.
Unlike the original “Siamese twins” Chang an Eng, who merely shared some tough fibrous tissue and a small part of their liver and could have been easily separated, the Bailey sisters had a shared heart and would have been difficult to separate. The enormous strain of one heart working for two people made heart troubles seem inevitable so preparatory surgeries were made for an eventual separation. During the surgery for separation each girl was to get her own heart from a donor.
Alas, there were complications during one of the preparatory surgeries which was performed on Friday August 13. The girls passed away. You may visit their blog at Emma Joan and Taylor Nalani Bailey to see pictures of the girls and their family. Condolences to the Bailey family and their friends and community who have supported them thru the sister’s short life.
Dad: Tor (old) Mom: Mandy (not as old) Paige: age 11 Drew: age 9 Cole: age 8 Emma: age 3 Taylor: age 3 Blake: age 2
Rare conjoined twins die at Seattle hospital
By TIM HAECK | Aug 13, 2010 | KIRO Radio | www.mynorthwest.com
When Emma and Taylor Bailey were born almost four years ago, doctors didn’t give them much of a chance. “We were told when they were born they’d live a few minutes, maybe a few hours,” says their grandfather Don Lybbert of Lynnwood.
The conjoined twins were linked from waist to sternum and shared a heart. The girls survived in hospice for 18 months so their parents had to decide what to do. They consulted with specialists. “Their file literally went to doctors all over the world,” says Libbert. He says there was no consensus on the best treatment for the conjoined twins.
The twins grew up and Lybbert says the almost four year old girls had unique personalities but were definitely in tune. “On the way to the hospital the other morning, they were humming a song in unison in perfect pitch, it was just amazing,” says Lybbert.
Seriously, what can go wrong in an old wooden building full of drunk people, alcohol and open flame?
Albert Trummer, Apotheke owner and self-proclaimed artist.
NY barkeep famed for flaming liquor stunt arrested
www.boston.com | June 14, 2010
NEW YORK—A barkeep whose flaming liquor show was featured in “Real Housewives of New York City” has been arrested for performing the fiery feat. Authorities said undercover fire marshals arrested the barkeep about 2 a.m. Sunday after he set alight Apotheke’s bar top, where he had poured various liquors. Chief Fire Marshal Robert Byrnes said the stunt sparked a “huge fireball.”
Baby’s Boffo Birthday: 8/9/10 11:12
Story posted 2010.08.12 | 6abc.com
Talk about perfect timing!
A newborn in Ohio is making headlines because she was born at a very cool time.
Little Ella Rose Heis was born a couple days ago on August 9 at 11:12 p.m.
That makes her birth stats read like this “8 for the month of August, 9 for the day, 10 for the year 2010, and 11:12pm for the time of night. That’s 8/9/10 11:12!
The little girl clearly wants to be unforgettable.
Kings Of Leon Concert Cut By Pigeon Poop
www.billboard.com | by Jessica Letkemann | July 24, 2010 6:21 EDT
Hold the Hitchcock jokes. Kings Of Leon had to cut short its concert at St. Louis’ Verizon Amphitheater last night (July 23) after a flock of pigeons living in the venue’s rafters unmercilessly divebombed the band with poop.
In an attempt to avoid dissapointing fans, the Followill guys had decided to go on with the show even after openers The Postelles and the Stills returned from the stage covered in pigeon excrement.
“We couldn’t believe what The Postelles and The Stills looked like after their sets,” said Jared Followill in a statement released by the band. “We didn’t want to cancel the show, so we went for it. We tried to play. It was ridiculous.” Kings of Leon made it through three songs before some of the poop landed near the bassist’s mouth and the band decided the pigeon hazard had grown too extreme to finish the show.
Live Nation has already announced that St. Louis Kings of Leon concertgoers may get the price of their tickets refunded at the point of purchase beginning on July 26.
The band continues its tour tonight in Chicago as planned, pigeons permitting.
