Ivan and Mary begin their 3,500 bicycle journey from Seattle, WA to Norfolk, VA, and are blogging about it. The URL is a sassy combination of their last names, Cockrum and Saucier.
Bat to bra in three sentences
I love how Harper’s Weekly connects dots in their weekly emails. An unaltered paragraph from their latest digest:
“The British retailer Marks & Spencer defended a policy of charging extra for bras that are bigger than size DD, saying the charge represented “a small premium for [necessary] specialist work,” while the protest group Busts 4 Justice derided the price increase as an unfair tax. A British teenager who assumed that tremors in her bosom were caused by her vibrating mobile phone found a baby bat nestling in the padding of her 34FF bra. The World Health Organization warned people not to go into Ugandan bat caves after a Dutch tourist died from the Marburg virus, a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola.”
Bruno is the new Borat! With Iranian missile “enhancement”.
They’re filming Sacha Baron Cohen’s next movie, it seems, when things like this appear in the news:
Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing _ a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of “Borat” fame.
…The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and share a brief kiss reminiscent of one between Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell in the film “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.”
An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600’s reaction as the two men “went right up to the line” of the city’s morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.
The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. “It set the crowd off lobbing beers,” Holland said. “They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.”
The article finishes with a bit of Mike Huckabee trivia!
If the cage match visits came from Baron Cohen, it wouldn’t be the first time Arkansas fell for a practical joke. In 2000, then-Gov. Mike Huckabee fell for a prank and congratulated Canada for preserving its icebound Parliament, calling it a “national igloo.”
National igloo! He ran for President! National IGLOO!!! Brüno releases May 15, 2009 in theaters.
Is having Photoshop overseas a recipe to enhance your missile testing? Iran thinks so, and got most major US dailies to run the photo untouched!
A double-dose of The Stranger
I normally just skim our alt-weekly The Stranger, but this week provided two must-read articles: one person’s perspective on the economic slowdown, called United States of Anxiety, and a book review of Steven Seagal’s filmography and discography, relived in order of release.
Humanity is not dead in “Wall-E,” but it is in peril. The world’s population cruises the heavens ceaselessly on a mammoth luxury spaceship that it boarded in the early 22nd century after the planet became uninhabitable. For government, there is a global corporation called Buy N Large, which keeps the public wired to umpteenth-generation iPods and addicted to a diet of supersized liquefied fast food and instantly obsolete products. The people are too bloated to walk — they float around on motorized Barcaloungers — but they are happy shoppers. A billboard on the moon heralds a Buy N Large outlet mall “coming soon,” not far from that spot where back in the day of “Hello, Dolly!” idealistic Americans once placed a flag.
from the Frank Rich column, “Wall-E for President“
The Lemonade Stand in the New Economy
My next door neighbor’s daughter and her friend opened a lemonade stand this week. I admired their entrepreneureal spirit and bought a glass each for Ellie and I… what I didn’t expect is shown below. I can’t wait to show this to my accountant at the end of the year!
Kennedy’s first birthday party
Ivan and Mary… Married!
I’ve known Ivan longer than I’ve known anyone in Seattle, so when I received the evite for a combination moving day/marriage ceremony, I was more-than-excited, and brought my daughter Ellie with me to help celebrate. Photo galleries from the wedding are posted here and here, with some snapshots I’ve snagged of interest below. For their honeymoon, Ivan and Mary are headed off on a two-month bike journey from Seattle to Norfolk, VA! A safe journey and congratulations!
Near the water at Shilshole, Green Lake
Pictures of Ellie and Zera at Shilshole, diggin’ it — and from the wading pool at Greenlake.
Design-y
Photoshop creations of unpopular movie-based video games, everything you wanted to know about custom typeface designers, and this rather brilliant idea of portable water purification:
LifeStraw® water purifiers have been developed as a practical way of preventing disease and saving lives, as well as achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water by the year 2015.
