Joy and Gladness Will Be Found

I can't say much other than my heart is completely broken. This is the theatre I work for in the summer months and a number of items that I hold near and dear to my heart were lost in this fire.

clipped from www.wral.com Fire Wipes Out 'Lost Colony' Costumes Posted: Today at 1:02 p.m. Updated: Today at 1:06 p.m. Manteo — Fire destroyed almost all of the Lost Colony theater’s costumes early Tuesday as it burned through the Irene Rains Costume Shop and a maintenance shed, the theater said. The performance area and seating were undamaged. Except for some costumes that were being dry-cleaned and others that had been sent to the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh for an exhibition, all the costumes were lost, including those for the characters of colonists and Native Americans. Rains and then Fred Voelpel had made the costumes from the 1940s through the early 1980s, the Lost Colony said in a statement. In 1947, a fire destroyed most of the props and sets at the theater, the organization said, but Rains saved the costumes that time by quickly taking them from dressing rooms to the beach.

Genius

I wish I could tell you who made this. Just stumbledupon it and had to share. Kudos to the artist, whoever you are.

clipped from www2.planet.ee

WWE is Having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Today, while watching CNN, the report of Chris Benoit's autopsy finally came out and they believe he suffered from severe brain damage.

The tests, conducted by Julian Bailes of the Sports Legacy Institute, show that Benoit's brain was so severely damaged it resembled the brain of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient.

Bailes and his research team say that this damage was the result of a lifetime of chronic concussions and head trauma suffered while Benoit was in the wrestling ring.
-ABC News

This could extinguish the idea that the murder/suicide was actually a result of "roid rage" if it turns out to be correct. In case you didn't already know, Benoit murdered his wife and son before hanging himself in his home.

Speaking of "roid rage" and the WWE, it has come to light in the last week or so that 10, maybe more, wrestlers have been suspended for steroid use but they haven't released just who it is yet. However, if you're a wrestling fan, you just might be able to put some of the story line clues together and figure it out.

Over the weekend, WWE taped its Monday Night Raw, ECW and Smackdown television shows in preparation for a tour of South Africa this week. Following the earlier reports, there were some curious happenings.

On Monday Night Raw, Umaga lost the intercontinental title to Jeff Hardy. He later was beaten and bloodied by Triple H and taken out on a stretcher.

On that same show, John Cena attacked William Regal, who was later checked out by paramedics and replaced as Raw commissioner by Jonathan Coachman.

In the final segment of the show, it was revealed that Mr. Kennedy is not the illegitimate son of WWE boss Vince McMahon. For weeks, the plan had been that Kennedy would fill that role and be involved in the biggest story line of his career.

On ECW, champion John Morrison lost his title to CM Punk.

During the taping of WWE Smackdown, Chavo Guerrero lost an "I Quit'' match to Rey Mysterio after having his knee smashed with a steel chair. Mysterio had the same thing done to him by Guerrero in a match last year to explain a long absence, during which he had knee surgery.

In other news, the company also cut ties to Bucci, who formerly wrestled in the WWE under the name Simon Dean before taking a management position.

Smackdown wrestler Eugene (Nick Dinsmore) was given his release from the company over the weekend. His name did not come up as part of the federal investigation.

Members of the tag-team Cryme Tyme, which consisted of Shad Gaspard and JTG (Jayson Paul), also were given their release -- because of behavioral issues.
-Orlando Sentinel

One Ring to Rule Them All

All your Apple gadgets that is.

With a stylish design and wireless Bluetooth connectivity with the iPod and iPhone, the iRing allows you to control playback and volume on any of the Apple media devices. iRing features a bright OLED status display with a touch sensitive function strip, and a rechargeable battery life of up to 2 days.The Apple logo on the top isn’t completely functionless either, when you tap it, it acts as a play/pause button and then to the immediate left and right of the Apple logo are the skip and rewind buttons.

bluepoly.com

Improv Everywhere - And I Missed It

I can't tell you how bummed I am to have missed out on this. Sadly, I was still in the OBX at the time (celebrating Virginia Dare's 420th Bday to be exact! Y'know, the first English child to be born in the new world?) Anyhow, the turn out was clearly impressive. Make sure you check out Part 2 for the rest. It's truly genius. I can't wait for their next experiment. I'm so there.

Basic gist of it, they asked people to download and MP3, meet up and follow the instructions. Genius.

The site.

Random Thought

I was browsing through postsecret.com last night when a question occurred to me. If someone close to you, say a significant other, saw you looking through Post Secret or their book and said "Y'know, I had a secret published in that.", how would you react? Would you flip through the entire book and/or website desperately seeking out the secret and try to figure out which one it was?

Me? I guess it really depends on who it is. I can see myself looking for a few minutes and then getting bored with it and then begging to know which one it is, to no avail I'm sure, and then just calling it quits. But I can guarantee it would drive me crazy for at least a day.

That or I'd say "Oh yeah? Me too!" and see how they react, whether it was true or not.

*P.S. - No, I have not, as of yet, posted a secret. Just in case you were going to go flipping through it.

If Paper Tried to Take Over the World

I found this on, well, foundmagazine.com. Apparently I'm pretty slow to the punch line here because I googled it thinking this must be some kind of Jack Handey type quote and although I can' find out who originally wrote this, it is all over the blogosphere already and has been for quite some time. Either way, it made me laugh and perhaps you haven't seen it yet, so here ya go!

**later**I feel like a dope now. I should have known this would be a Dane Cook quote. Well, at least I figured it out.**

clipped from www.foundmagazine.com

Ebonics 101 - Not Yet An Official Language

I wish I could find more pictures of this pamphlet. I bet it's very....educational. Do you think they included the lines from Airplane?

clipped from www.click2houston.com A Houston Independent School District police officer was suspended after officials said he wrote and distributed a controversial handbook titled "Ghetto Handbook: Ebonics 101" among other HISD police officers, KPRC Local 2, Your Education Station, reported Friday. The handbook caused outrage in parents.

USA! USA! USA!

I so thoroughly enjoyed this in my sleepy state this morning. I had no idea there was even such a thing as "The World Beard & Moustache Championships 2007" or even beard clubs. Heck, they even have a website. I particularly enjoy their catch phrase "Let us tickle your fancy" and the Jimmy Edwards (he was a british comedian) song that opens up the website.

My favorite category in the competition: Natural Beard Freestyle.

Congrats to the winners, especially the 23 year old American who snagged the Natural Beard category! Well played!

clipped from www.newsvine.com One contestant had a mustache twisted into the shape of London's Tower Bridge; others sported bushy beards that would make Grizzly Adams envious. In the end, Beard Team USA nabbed four of the top honors — by a whisker — at the World Beard and Mustache Championships.

Overheard In NYC

I just wish I had seen it is all. It's the little moments like this that tickle me.

She Spent an Hour in Her Driveway This Morning Telling Her Car to Go

Clerk to woman trying to use debit card: You have to confirm.
Woman: How I do that?
Clerk: With the keypad you're holding.
Woman, using keypad as cell phone: I confirm!

--Electronic store, Times Square

Overheard by: French dude

via Overheard in New York, Aug 30, 2007

Verily Indeed

Because when I saw it, I giggled out loud. I believe it was "I must levy a fee" that got it out of me.

clipped from surreality.info

An Internets Business Meeting - In Comment Speak

Seriously, that chart is clearly photoshopped.

Pot Plagues Prison Yard

I read this and couldn't help but wonder, did the place they bought the soil from do this as a practical joke? Because if so, that's freakin' hilarious and kudos to them! I love a good prank!

clipped from www.foxnews.com TOKYO — A Japanese prison is scrambling to eradicate marijuana plants that keep sprouting up on its exercise ground, officials said Tuesday. The marijuana plants started sprouting at Abashiri Prison on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido about a year ago, said prison official Takeshi Okamura. He said officials plucked out as many as 300 marijuana plants and treated the ground last year, but several more sprouted again this year. Prisoners reported them to the guards. Officials believe the plants are wild. "Apparently, somebody knew how to tell marijuana from other plants," Okamura said. Local botanical experts concluded the marijuana seeds were inadvertently brought in with the soil used for the exercise ground, Okamura said. "It's a headache," Okamura said. "This isn't a farm." Abashiri Prison, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) northeast of Tokyo, currently has about 1,080 male inmates serving terms of up to eight years in prison.

Covered in Bees

Stumbledupon this interesting story this morning. Noticed there isn't much chit chat about it so I thought I would share. Of course, whenever I hear anything about a bee, I think of Eddie Izzard because that's how my weirdo brain works.

I like my women like I like my amber, covered in beeees!

Okay, I'm done now.

clipped from dawn.com WASHINGTON - Aug 30: An ancient bee carrying the pollen from the first orchid fossil known to science. Fossilised orchid pollen on the back of a bee preserved in amber has offered the first evidence that these delicate flowers existed around the time of the dinosaurs.—Reuters