Sounds That Annoy Cats

Most cats dislike the harmonica? Who knew?

Hooray!!!!!


Supreme Court won't look at adult site

By Lisa M. Bowman
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 25, 2002, 9:55 AM PT

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will not hear a case involving an attempt to shut down an adult Web site by the city of Tampa, Fla.

The city had tried to shut down exhibitionist site Voyeurdorm.com, which provides 24-hour live Webcasts of a residence full of women while they "study, work out, bathe and live the lives of college co-eds." The city said the Tampa residence violated city zoning ordinances regulating the location of sexually oriented businesses.

Have we no shame?


:From the Associated Press:
The U.S. Air Force will adopt Sept. 11 passenger Todd Beamer's words "Let's roll!" as a slogan on several aircraft until the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America.

Some of my friends don't know who Rose McGowan is. So here's a picture.


And here's a picture of her as a green-skinned slave girl from Orion.

Classic Spam

Look what I received today. It's a beautiful specimen in its way...

>From Mr. JUBRIL
Tel, 00228 910 6087
Lome Togo West Africa


SIR,
RE :CLAIM&TRANSFER OF USD 28 .500 .000 DOLLAR
Firstly, I must solicit your utmost confidence in this
proposal. This
is by virtue of it‚s nature as being utterly confidential
and top secret.
I got to contact you because I have the impression that you
will be capable of handling such an enormous amount for me.
I am a Sierra-Leonean taking refuge in the outskirts of
Lome-Republic
of TOGO and the son of a top aide to the former RUF
(Revolutionary United
Front) rebel leader „ FODAH SANKOIT ‰ who is currently
detained by the
government of Sierra-Leone since the 08 of May 2000 because
of his role
in the uprisning of February last year. After which the
people of Free
town stormed his villa,but before the arrival of the mob
the leaders
of his revolutionary United Front (RUF) fled out of Free-
Town including
my father was in-charge of RUF Diamond Treasure Fund..
My father took advantage of the laid siege and ran away
with TWENTY EIGHT
MILLION , FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US
$28,500,000)
stashed away in security form when the military Junta was
overthrown.
My father and I landed in TOGO with the Money and took
refuge in the
outskirts of Lome-TOGO leaving my mother and four of my
younger ones
behind in Sierra-Leone.
We both took the Fund to a security company where it was
documented and
deposited as daimond. After the deposit of this fund
(daimond), my father
went back to rescue the rest of the family and they all
became victim
of the sortie (killed). Now, I am left in agony and
mourning of the whole
family. And I am in possession of the fund deposit document.
I will be relieved from my bereavement if only your
organisation could
come to my aid by assisting me morally and financially in
the claim and
transfer of this fund out of Africa for the faithful use of
this fund
for charity purpose and to pray for the departed soul of my
entire family.
For your role and assistance, your organisation will be
entitled to 20
% of the total sum, 20 % for charity purpose,5% for any
expenses that
might be incured in the process of the transaction And the
balance 55
% will be kept intact for investment, pending my arrival in
your country.
I must acquaint you with the fact that this transaction is
not known
to any other person except you, me and the security company.
I will appreciate your urgent response to this proposal.

Your Sincerly


JUBRIL

This is Brandy, the dog with a 17" tongue. Check out www.tungdog.com. You can even advertise on the site!

The word "trepanation" is in Eudora's spell check dictionary. That gives me hope for the world.

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The American women's curling team beat Norway today to advance to the medal round. Let's get sweepin'!

Who would believe that you can get it on sale?

The A-List is a super-bitchy website that claims to have the real dirt on Hollywood celebrities. Most of it is about sexual preferences (who knows how much is true) and it is quite humorous. For example, "Macdowell, Andie. The light's on upstairs, but nobody's home. Possibly mildly retarded. Seems to have an aversion, in private life, to wearing any clothes. Recovering drug addict. Linked with Dennis Quaid."

Now this is how a rock band should behave.

No, it's not. But it is about a Robot Dog, of sorts.

"This is cool. My
friend and I have been surprising each other for many years. Last year, he
tried to get me a charter membership in the Cockroach of the Week club. I
cancelled that membership after receiving my second surprise package. Now, it’s my turn.
I invited him to come over, but didn’t tell
him that I had payback on my mind. I put a sign on the front door. "John - I’m in the back," was taped to the front door. I
turned on my VCR, tuned in to the camera at the side of my house, and
pressed RECORD.
I could watch John open the gate and start
walking around the side of the house. When he got close to the camera, my
ROBODOG started barking and spotlights at each corner of the house came on.
You should have seen John freeze for a second, then run to the front of the
house. Actually, I’ve got a video tape of all the action.
A few seconds later, John was pounding at the
door.
"What was that?"
I let him in. I had a "gotcha"
smile on my face. John knew that, this time, I outdid his cockroach prank.
"What was that?" John asked
again. "What kind of dog was that?"
I told him "it’s my RoboDog." He
stopped and thought for a minute. He thought for a minute more. "A
Rottweiler-Boston Terrier mix? Is that even possible?" I had to laugh.
No, it’s my Robo. I took my keychain remote
out of my pocket, and pressed the button to turn on the ROBODOG.
Immediately, the dog started barking again, and the lights outside came back
on.
I explained that the outdoor motion detector
included with the ROBODOG is always on. I told him how, when a warm body is
detected, it sends a radio signal to my ROBODOG. I explained that the lights
at each corner of the house were set to a single X10 channel, and that the
Wireless Motion Detector sends a signal to turn the lights on.

It is 3:25 pm on Sunday. I thought, "Hmm, perhaps I will watch a little of the Winter Olympics." Turned on NBC -- Daytona 500. That's fine, if your name is Cletus. But wait, NBC has two other channels-- CNBC and MSNBC. Nope and Nope. Not even Ice Dancing. I'm bitter.

From The Washington City Paper

Harlem Rose: A Love Song to Langston Hughes Don't go to Harlem Rose: A Love Song to Langston Hughes expecting a biography. In this love song, the beloved's identity is as anonymous as those of the folks who opened the 14-line valentines Shakespeare penned. You might guess that Harlem Rose is a love song to Harlem, via the words of Hughes and the sounds of jazz, blues, and African-American-oriented popular music--but there's not a lot of Harlem in it, either. Giorgios Tsappas' functional set design for the MetroStage production offers the five cast members a variety of surfaces from which to emote, and Adam Magazine's lighting ably demarcates different moods and performers, but there's no real sense of "the dark sash of Manhattan" in the setting. And the cast keeps things light--no chiaroscuro here, just a lively musical review. Really, Harlem Rose is a love song to love songs. The production includes some 25 musical numbers, mostly standards like "Take the A Train" and "Walking My Baby Back Home" but also some originals by musical director William Hubbard. Blended with the music, spoken-word passages (largely from Hughes' writings), dance, and pantomime reveal couplings and uncouplings (all hetero, by the way, though Hughes' history suggests other possible interpretations), with a smattering of landlord-bashing and churchgoing to vary the flavor. It would be a fine, light entertainment if it were audible: Too often the vastness of the theater swallows up the sound. The night I was there, it was hard to make out some of the poetry, and the female vocalists, in particular Beverly Cosham, were more overheard than heard. Hubbard seems more at ease with the songs than anyone else--which makes sense, given his authorship. His piano is the centerpiece of the stage, and his playing is the fulcrum of the action. He's also a surprisingly engaging actor, more natural in his speech than any of his compatriots. Scott Leonard Fortune's lightfooted agility and comic facial expressions are big enough to fill the Capital Centre; he and Hubbard are the only performers who never seem in need of a volume boost. Desiré DuBose has a Betty Boop pertness and a distracting tendency to show off her bodacious curves by running her hands all over them. Although her voice took a while to get warmed up, she delivered an accomplished version of "God Bless the Child" about three- quarters of the way through Friday's show. Not much is demanded from Ron Oshima as an actor; he's mostly in charge of sax punctuation, a task he performs with capable amiability. Cosham, though, is a real letdown, only because expectations for her run so high: Stone-faced and meek-voiced, she nonetheless hits the occasional musical high note or interpretive fillip--especially in "Come Rain or Come Shine"-- that suggests that in other circumstances she could carry a whole production. (PMW) MetroStage 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. Friday, Saturday, & Thursday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 7 p.m.; matinee Sunday at 2 p.m. $30 to Mar. 10 (703) 548- 9044

I watched a little bit of the Women's Curling competition last night. It was pretty interesting.

DEAR ABBY: I have a huge problem. My fiance and I have been together for three years and are being married in October. The problem is my soon-to-be mother-in-law. She is a great lady and we get along very well; however, she insists on accompanying us on our honeymoon! She keeps pushing the idea of making it a family trip.

My fiance told her the honeymoon is going to be just for us. He tried to tell her we all could go someplace together another time, but she got upset. She abruptly got off the phone with him, saying she was "only joking," but she'd work on me.

This is a nightmare. She's normally a pleasant and reasonable person whom I like a lot. That's why I don't understand why she can't see this is a huge intrusion.

Please help. I don't want to have to change my honeymoon destination to someplace she may not want to go. -- BRIDE-TO-BE IN NORTH CAROLINA

Dear Bride-to-be:
GET OUT NOW! Unless maybe Mom wants to have some kind of kinky threesome with you and her little boy. That's okay.
--Dr.Crankypants

In honor of the Westminster Dog Show

More Happy Valentine's Day

I don't know much, but I do know this -- Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, and Renee Zellweger have got to be the three hottest women ever to be up for the best actress Oscar at the same time. Not to mention Dame Judi.

Happy Valentine's Day

from the Onion.

The genius that is Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld:

Rumsfeld: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

Please, please, please, do not click here.

This is an actual graphic from the Republican National Committee.

The Washington Post review of Harlem Rose.

Ready for the War in Colombia?

More U.S. Military Aid to Colombia Possible-Report

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - The United States, which has concentrated military aid to Colombia on the anti-drug struggle but will now help defend an oil pipeline, could upgrade its assistance to the country's war effort, the U.S. ambassador here said in a newspaper interview.

In Colombia's El Tiempo newspaper on Sunday, Ambassador Anne Patterson said decisions on future U.S. military aid would hinge on the success of a new initiative to train and equip a Colombian army brigade to protect the pipeline.

Asked whether the plan to spend $98 million helping Colombian troops prevent leftist rebel attacks on the much-bombed Cano Limon duct could be followed by other aid to protect infrastructure, Patterson replied: ``Yes. But we are going to see how this project goes with the Cano Limon.''

She said there were more than 300 sites with infrastructure of strategic importance to the United States in Colombia and securing Latin American oil supplies was more important now with growing tension in the Middle East.

U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman said on Tuesday the U.S. government would ask Congress for $98 million to protect the 490- mile (780-kilometer) Cano Limon, which pumps oil produced by U.S. firm Occidental Petroleum Corp. .

It comes on top of massive military aid to Colombia's armed forces to fight the drug trade under President Andres Pastrana's ``Plan Colombia.''

Until now, the United States has said it only wants to fight the cocaine business and not get directly involved in a messy 38-year-old war which has claimed about 40,000 lives in the past decade.

Ask Dr. Crankypants!

Dear Ann Landers: I am engaged to be married in a month. We are having a small wedding with family and close friends only. The wedding will be at our church, but the reception will be a small, elegant dinner at a friend's restaurant.

Our budget is quite tight, and we cannot afford much. The wedding dinner will be $15 a plate, which is more than we can manage. Would it be rude to ask our guests to pay for their dinners? How do we tell them? -- Indiana Bride

Perhaps you should offer to turn tricks in return for some recompense -- it would be more dignified than asking your guests to pay for their meal.
--Dr. Crankypants.

From the New York Daily News:

Bush viewed the musical "Cats" as modern theater at its finest, Bruni writes, and openly admitted that martial artist Chuck Norris was his favorite film actor.

A not-so-good review of Harlem Rose.

I just like Liberace.

Mmmmm, mmmmmm, good.

Michael Cimino -- bloated with undeserved self-esteem:

"Would you ask Picasso to explain Guernica?" Mr. Cimino demanded, with a straight face. "Would you ask Nabokov to explain Lolita? Would you ask Tolstoy about War and Peace? No, you wouldn't dare. It's like an old love affair, tired and worn out. People have tried to talk to me about it, and I've said it's all up on the screen. It's tired and tiring."

(Click here if you don't know about the fabled 1980 debacle that was Heaven's Gate, Cimino's first movie after winning the Oscar for the Deer Hunter.

Science Made Stupid is on the web! I reccomend it highly!

Nutritional Wisdom of the East

Here are some great posters that will brighten up any room -- after all, they have ferrets on them!

I always like it when some part of culture that I do not like gets a proper hammering. Slate has an article talking about how bad a novel Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men is. I tried to read it once, but gave up after an overlong description of a man's loogie.

Looking for a new source of income -- well, click here for an amazine web idea.

Visit this very disturbing web site for more pictures of mega-babes digitally altered to look like the green-skinned Orion slave girls of Star Trek.