Seattle native Michelle Marie arrives to us from F-listed.
Friday, August 28, 2009
This week, we leave you in the Evergreen State
Seattle native Michelle Marie arrives to us from F-listed.
Premature FAIL
Found via Drudge Report on the St. Augustine Record:Shortly after the jury gave its verdict in the case of William Telano Evans on Thursday afternoon, it was clear something was wrong.
In the courthouse hallway, Evans' wife, Peggy, used her cell phone to call her husband, who hadn't returned to court after lunch to hear the verdict.
"They found you not guilty," she said. "Please, please don't do anything."
He never got the message.
[....]
Deputies arrived at the Evans' home on Stokes Landing Road at 3:55 p.m., just as a 911 call came in from the residence.
Relatives had gone to the house to tell Evans he needed to go back to the courthouse. Instead, they found him dead at the rear of the house.
[....]
Prosecutor [Dennis] Craig had the last word in the trial, and his rebuttal left the five women and one man on the jury with the most damning evidence against Evans, the "apology letter" that he had apparently written to the victim as part of counseling, eight years before he was charged.
Evans' wife, daughter, son-in-law, sister and brother sat on the defense side of the courtroom and listened to Craig read the lurid details.
Peggy Evans hung her head.
The victim cried.
Evans jotted on a notepad, as he had done throughout most of the trial.
The letter, dated April 10, 1996, described how he was "overcome with selfish desires."
After several years of taking advantage of her nightly fear of what might happen and her youthful ignorance about sex, he promised to stop, according to the letter.
"For a while, I kept my promise."
Apparently big in the UK
Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott is some new British pop singer. I haven't knowingly heard any of her songs. Who knows? She might actually be good.Found on Hollywood Tuna.
Breakfast Granola for 8/28/9
This Friday is determined to start right, with a breakfast trifecta of WIN: Krystal Forscutt, Joanna Krupa, and Sarita Stella, as seen on Hollywood Tuna.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
L'Etranger
Carrie Milbank is heretofore unknown and unclassified ore, but recently discovered on Holy Taco. I like her dimple.
Gymkhana v3.0
This particular performance by Ken Block is distinguished by two factors:
1) It was on Top Gear, so the cinematography was way better, despite some of the flash of v1.0 and stunts in v2.0.
And 2) it has a surprise guest star.
1) It was on Top Gear, so the cinematography was way better, despite some of the flash of v1.0 and stunts in v2.0.
And 2) it has a surprise guest star.
The Inner Mind's Eye
There's a reason that time travel in fiction is a dizzying affair, and there's a graph to prove it. From io9:David McCandless created this visualization as part of his upcoming book of chart porn, The Visual Miscellaneum. Here, he charts the temporal paths of different TV and movie time travelers (Doctor Who was omitted for the sake of sanity, though he hasn't ruled out making a separate chart for the Time Lord), and, just for fun, imagines what might happen if time travelers who landed in the same year happened to meet up (I suspect that, despite his ingenuity, Marty McFly would not fare well against the Terminator). McCandless did feel that his research revealed one key deficiency in time travel stories: nearly all time travel journeys he mapped originate and land between the years 1900-2100.
Chevy is teh suck
Found via Consumerist on Consumer Reports:My frustration began to boil since the dealer set the 3 p.m. appointment. I waited an additional half hour and a manager comes over and apologizes for the delay and gives me his card and says that I can have a free oil change when I come back. Finally, I get to the finance guy, fill out the paperwork and buy the car. I've been at the dealer way too long and I just want to leave.Maybe because my car was ordered from afar and I had to pick it up the next day, my experience was very different. I arrived at the appointed time, my dealer and the finance lady had me sign some final things, I was shown around my shiny and gassed-up car, I signed off on that tour, the dealer stuck on my temp tag and removed a numbered card from the dashboard, and I was off.
Just when I thought I was free and clear, the salesman comes over and asks me to wait "just a minute" so he can go and fill the car up with gas. Of course, he had been doing nothing for over an hour and then he suddenly decided to fill the car. I couldn't believe this was happening.
It was now late Friday afternoon and the peak of rush hour. And I wound up waiting yet another 20 minutes. He finally came back and again offered to go over the car with me. Again I declined. The salesman thanked me for the purchase and hoped that I would come back if I wanted to buy another car. Ha.
Sadly, this dealership is now closed in the wake of the Carpocalypse, but I guess my point is that the good, unfortunately, seem to die young, and evil is immortal.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Corrupted memories of Anna Paquin
For some reason, my brain swapped her for Thora Birch as Sally Ryan in Patriot Games. Very strange...Found on Holy Taco.
Conan the Governor
Speaking of bikinis...
I'll miss them as much as you will, so let's have one last gasp until next year. I leave you with Shellie McCallister in a bikini.Found on Coed.
Breakfast Granola for 8/26/9
With the school year upon us, summer seems now at an end. No more bikinis, but the outlook on skirts is optimistic. Just ask Bianca Beauchamp, shown not in plaid wool schoolgirl but in PVC outre schoolgirl.Kids these days...
Found with a big batch of other schoolgirls on Coed.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
I always wanted a Luxo Jr.
Apparently, now I can get one:Grab yourself a copy of Pixar's latest classic and a fine desktop holder for your Pixar Blu-ray collection with the Up - Limited Edition Luxo Jr. Lamp Pack ($130). Produced in limited quantities, this set includes the heartwarming Up in three formats — Blu-ray, DVD, and digital — and a desk lamp modeled after Luxo Jr., who appears in Pixar's animated logo and in the classic Pixar short of the same name, with a custom-crafted base designed to hold and spotlight your other Pixar Blu-ray discs.Found on Uncrate.
Breakfast Granola for 8/25/9
Seven hundred and seventeen posts WITHOUT Keeley Hazell!? I am equal parts surprised and disappointed. The madness ends here.Found by way of a little wandering of the intergoogles on Manofest, which has a whole gallery of Ms. Hazell.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Phoenix (NOT Arizona)
Today's trivia: The phoenix was a mythical bird of fire that would be reborn from its own ashes. Picture unrelated.Phoenix Omani was found on Hip Hop Wired.
I hate Facebook and Twitter so much
The Mine requires a refrigerator such as this. Full of delicious edibles and WIN, instead of an iceberg, waterfowl squeezings, and FAIL. So sad.Found, with other evidence that your place of work also sucks it, on Funtasticus.
Once you go Black...
...you might move up to Green. Found by FMD Crankmonkey on Luxist:In September, Johnnie Walker Black Label will release a special collector's edition bottle honoring the famed Scotch's 100th anniversary.
Celebrating the brand's enduring achievements in blending, innovation, and quality, the limited edition black glass bottle contains the signature 12-year-old whisky and will retail for $50.
Seafoam
Funtasticus gave me this gallery of assorted girls partying up and wildin' out, and I'm passing the savings along to YOU!
Two-pieced!
Uncoached brings us a tremendous cavalcade of strikes to the noggin caught on film. Behold, and feel everything except the agony of defeat.
Breakfast Granola for 8/24/9
No matter how your weekend was, it couldn't possibly suck as much as this dummy's...
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