Mildly Interesting Photo Of The Week

(06 Jan 2007/Jax Beach, FL/Casio EX-Z750)

Travelzoo Temptation Of The Week

(24 Sept 2005/Prague, Czech Republic/Samsung D530)

I Hear Paris Is Lovely This Time Of Year
Speak Your Language Where It Was Invented
Prague In Spring: A Lot Better These Days
Never Been To Europe? $159 And One Click Will Handle It

Sorry, I Can't Stop Typing In Headlines
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Important Monkey News Of The Day

It's been a red-letter day for those of us of the chimpanzee persuasion. In keeping with our commitment here to bring you only the most excellently strange of all possible news items, here are two of the finest we've seen in rather a while. Naturally, both took place in ...um ...well... the South.

Ahem.

1. Startling Keepers, Miraculous Baby Chimp Born Despite Vasectomies

Father as yet unknown, but presumably in for an unpleasant surprise himself. Make that several. Also, why is there a chimpanzee ranch in the middle of backwoods Louisiana? We would like to know this. We think.

2. Arkansas Zoo Chimp Escapes, Raids Fridge, Cleans Toilet

[sigh] Arkansas. Fox News. Any other questions? Well, actually, we have one. No, two. Where can we find one of those, and will it also do the dishes?

Pimping The Good Stuff

There comes a time in everyone's life when one must finally break down, succumb to total laziness (i mean, ah, writer's block), and shamelessly link other pages in order to have anything whatsoever to say.

Well, maybe not everyone's life. But now that that's out of the way, here are four very important things you need to know.

1. Lark News
2. Landover Baptist
3. The Wittenburg Door
4. Credenda/Agenda

Weeks' worth of edification, i tell you.

Although not, perhaps, for the highly sensitive of spirit.

Hmm. Maybe i should've said that first.

You Heard It Here First

(image credit: foxnews.com)

BREAKING NEWS

Millions Stranded Without Power Or Government Services In Four-State Deadly Storm Disaster, And Yet Somehow Nobody Starts Looting, Rioting, Raping, Or Shooting At Each Other

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Rumor had it people were actually caring for their neighbors and taking needy strangers into their homes. Unlikely as it may seem to readers on the more civilized East and West Coasts, this was confirmed by news stories midday Wednesday. For some reason, National Guard troops delivering assistance to the area were also not shot at by the people they were attempting to help.

In addition, when interviewed, midwestern residents seemed strangely unwilling to blame the seasonal storm on the federal government. Possible explanations for such behavior, if any, remain unclear.

Florida, My Florida

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Lest my temporary adoptive state should feel left out (having no seven-legged transgendered deer of which to boast), i feel i ought to help publicize some of the richness peculiar to its own local culture. And i do mean peculiar.

My current favorite, last month, featured the police vs. the twelve-foot alligator in a tug-of-war battle for the naked guy high on crack who had decided in the course of his nocturnal wanderings that skinnydipping in a retention pond would be a fine way to finish off his evening.

Oh, there's so much more. But you don't have to take my word for it.

I only wish i could make this stuff up. Believe me.

(via fark.com)