ok world, now i hate myself for loving pork so much that i want to cry.

from the Daily Mail:

They can live for up to 18 years, but make popular pets as they are low maintenance, quiet and surprisingly clean.

‘Micro pigs make fantastic pets as they are very low maintenance. You don’t have to take them for walks and they have very few health issues,’ said Miss Croft.

‘They don’t make much noise, they are easy to toilet train and once they have bonded with you they are very loving.

AWWWWWWWWWWW!

The photos I’ve seen from this Sydney dust storm are amazing. They remind me of this science-fiction short story I read as a young teen where Earth became inhabitable and people had to live on Mars.

Pics via Flickr

With a layer of coastal stratus coating the valley floor of Santa Rosa and Healdsburg, Calif., moisture from tropical storm Linda is seen as lightning stikes early Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009 over Sonoma County.

In celebrating the 40th anniversary of the First Man on the Moon, the NYT blog recently posted about this Pink Floyd Moon-Landing footage that I had no idea about. This atmospheric instrumental aired on BBC TV during live coverage of the moon landing.

David Gilmour had this to say:

We were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23. The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall.

Pretty amazing, because that would never fly on network tv these days. God bless the 60s. I get goosebumps watching this.

I am so sad that I couldn’t watch the impeachment trial for Blagojevich today due to work. My friend said that the straight faced re-readings of those f-bomb loaded tapped calls were hilarious and I can’t help but picture it to be like that scene in Waiting for Guffman when the old soft spoken man auditions with that Travis Bickle “Are you f—ing talking to me?” scene.

Can’t wait to see this asshat on Rachel Maddow tonight.

There is this group on facebook for fans of Aretha Franklin inauguration hat and a few of the submitted fan photos are hilarious

Attacking George Bush’s helicopter

file under guilty laffs

Yeah I teared up last night with strangers and friends in a packed bar during Obama’s acceptance speech. As you may know, I was so excited that I crashed my bike because I was distracted by the communal bliss in my neighborhood. I never thought I would live to see a black POTUS and not only is that a huge achievement in itself, but a black democratic candidate who could carry Florida and Virginia. WTF? I took a long hiatus from ranting about politics because I get so riled up and because I became so cynical and disgusted with the Rove-era of corruption/scandal and how the perpetrators, for the most part, had a slimy talent for wiggling out scott-free. I never imagined that I could feel so proud of my country. Even though I am still wary of campaign promises, I am very impressed with his stature and personal ascension and see in him someone who inspires hope not just for the US, but for our global community. Even Condoleeza Rice could not hide being pleased and I had forgotten that one of her childhood friends was killed in that bombing of a baptist church in Birmingham, AL in 1963.

But I have to confess, despite his hostile supporters booing his calls for uniting behind Obama, I was touched by McCain’s concession speech and felt really bad for him.

Back during his rally when he was calming and correcting that woman with the crazy hair who said “I’m afraid of Obama he’s an arab”, the look on his face was so obviously conflicted and even he appeared to be shaken by the hatred and ignorance that his negative campaign had spread. When not in election mode, he seemed a decent person to me and has proved in the past to be a rare breed of politicians that would extend an olive branch to break free from political gridlock to get things done. Last night, I saw signs that he would continue that again.

But yeah, he and his clueless campaign strategists made some epic bad decisions though—on a Faustian level by a) hiring the same folks who smeared him ruthlessly in the 2000 primaries and b) selecting Bible Spice as his veep. I don’t think he will ever forget that. I can’t help but think of that line from JFK’s inauguration speech:

“Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.”

Rings so freaking true.

i caught the all star homerun derby on TV last night and now officially admire the hell out of rangers outfielder josh hamilton. how this guy can come back from a hardcore addiction to alcohol, heroin and crack to completely dominate the home run derby by mashing 28 home runs in the first round (3 of them past 500 feet) is beyond me. this guy is for real. not to mention he is leading the major-league in RBIs with a ridiculous 95 before the all star break. WTF? his comeback story is like a real life awesome baseball movie. or as hamilton puts it, proof that hope is never lost.

yesterday, the first 20,000 attendees at yankee stadium got fake mustaches. This is because that gross one on jason giambi’s face is so popular at the moment and helped improve his batting average. i wish the giants or a’s had hilarious fan giveaway days like this.

i’m fascinated by this news story

Amazon Indians from one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with striking images released on Thursday showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows.

The photographs of the tribe near the border between Brazil and Peru are rare evidence that such groups exist. A Brazilian official involved in the expedition said many of them are in increasing danger from illegal logging.

guess i’m really disconnected from my catholic heritage because it’s been at least a decade & 1/2 since my moms last badgered me about mass attendance and/or important catholic-related holidays that i must celebrate to avoid eternal damnation. so, i forgot how fun easter can be! i didn’t know until today, but the washington post has a peeps diorama contest. pretty fun me thinks. the birds one is killer – i loved that they used the boat scene. hitchcock & bodega bay forever. seriously, this scene looks like a scene i would enjoy eating.

finally got around to making that Slap Shot fan-art T i said i would a month or 2 back. it’s a little messed up since i used iron-on transfer but i’m gonna make a better one in the near future and hopefully find a tomboy nerd who can appreciate a hilarious & subversive dudestravagent violent hockey flick from the 70s, give it to her and make her day. excuse the mediocre pic, young took it.

This made me laugh

Loudspeaker Karaoke Scares Conn. Teacher
1 day ago

ROXBURY, Conn. (AP) — Karaoke can be scary, but threatening? A school custodian’s impromptu after-hours karaoke performance prompted a police response when a teacher thought she was being threatened over the loudspeaker.

State police say the teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a Guns N’ Roses song over the public address system for a threat.

She was working after hours and thought no one else was in the building. Then she heard someone say over the loudspeaker that she was going to die.

Six troopers and three police dogs showed up and found three teenagers, one of them a custodian at the school, who had been playing with the public address system.

Police say one of them sang “Welcome to the Jungle” into the microphone. The song contains the lyrics “You’re in the jungle baby; you’re gonna die.”

The teenagers were cuffed for about 15 minutes while police investigated. They didn’t realize anyone else was in the school at the time. No charges will be filed, said state police Sgt. Brian Ness.