I Loved This...



I love Tanya.

Russian High Heel Sprint.



You've gotta love it.
Really.

Sunday Click Around

The Sexy Side of PEZ has some great old time graphics. Sex always did sell, even if it was candy.

This terrible Canadian PSA is still cringingly funny.

"The internationally renowned Canadian portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) created an enduring legacy through his art. For over 60 years, he documented history by recording the influential people of his time, leaving us with striking and memorable portraits of such celebrated people as Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, and Helen Keller."

The Great Dictator - "read" by the Wal-Mart smiley face. I found it terribly amusing.
While we're on Walmart, here are some Walmart Shenanigans...is Walmart so big that employees don't recognize each other?

I love how some people really feel that public and private propety belongs to them.
I'll tell you what.
If I owned some land and I paid hundreds and thousands of dollars to purchase it, and a "tent city" was set up there creating a human sewer and garbage dump at my expense...you bet your ass I'd have their asses removed.
Call me what you like.
Insensitive, cold...I don't give a shit.
As a taxpayer, I don't want them trashing public property. Even less so if the property belonged to me. We have social services, and homeless shelters, we're not a third world country.
The fact that some people choose not to use those services is not my responsibility.
All the gab about "this Capitalist society" and "giant wallets" is really rich coming from people who have never lived under a Socialist or Communist Regime. Believe me when I tell you that over that side, they wouldn't have just mowed down the tents, they would have mowed down the people too, and no one would have even heard about it...and if you talked about it, you might end up really, really far away with no one to tell who even cared. So, North American urban socialists just need to calm down and appreciate the rights and freedoms they enjoy here.

GOLD-FINGA!!!

Katsushika Hokusai Crop Art is pretty amazing.

There is a serious disconnect between this kids looks and his voice. His voice kind of reminds me a bit of Al Jarreau's in how he enunciates. Speaking of Al Jarreau, here is My Old Friend, and one of my favourite Al Jarreau songs, If I Could Change Your Mind.

So while we're on "morna" like songs, I'm a big lover of Cesaria Evora. Here is "Yamore", and "Beseme Mucho"...and since all cultures have "mornas", here's "Kukavica" from Ceca. Whenever I hear it..sva se najezim (I get goosebumps). Especially when she does it acapella.

When I heard Sri Lankan singer Karunarathna Divulgane for the first time a few years ago, I immediately fell in love with the feelings he conveyed in his songs. I didn't need to understand the words. Here's another from him, just for good measure.

I'm a sucker for talking wildlife.

I really, really liked this.

Brian from Getting On's daughter has a travel blog that looks pretty good. I'm not sure I like the Canadians that she's meeting though.

Ok, last but not least...if you live in the Toronto area, and you want to get rid of that pesky guy who harangues you for your phone number, give him this one: 647-476- 4910. Seriously. Call it. It's hilarious, and brutally to the point.

Ok, kids...that's it.

You Gotta be...

More Studies about studies.

"LONDON — Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research that reignites the issue of whether pot is dangerous."
I dunno. Is it perhaps possible that people with mental illness issues gravitate toward drug use to escape their anxieties?
Perhaps it isn't so much that marijuana causes mental illness, but rather mental illness seeks out self-medication.
Anyway, wait for the next study that cancels out this study.

Up and coming "bad girls".
The kids of the stars. Too much money and not enough sense.

While I like the idea of dailing a number to get rid of that tailgating, speeding, dangerous lane changing little prick. I'm not confident that any of it could hold up in court without cameras....and with the cameras, we shouldn't need a snitch line. All we need is Sgt. Cam Wooley on the scene.

Dose of Amy

Blackened Salmon at Papamo

Today's Quote:

"Chile, God must love yuh for de Devil to be chasin' yuh suh"

...When you dream that your agnostic Uncle who has heart trouble, and is like a father to you is quoting scriptures from the Bible to you, I think it's time to rush over to see how he's doing.

When I told him my dream, he laughed and said:
"Ya, eef I even gonna no scriptures fram da bible, den yu for shur yu hev to cam an see me, bekas da Gad eez gonna be tellink me heself".

Jesus Christ.
 
Another Darwin Award Winner who didn't survive to claim his prize.
Just say "no" to drugs, kids.

"Canadian Tuan Lam is $4.84 million US richer today after finishing in second place at the main event of the World Series of Poker".

I'll be honest with you people.
When I saw the picture of Mr. Lam, at first I thought he was Queen Latifah...until I saw his arms.

'Ghetto dude' gets personal apology from Premier.
Cash in dude.
I'm sure "Ghetto dude" isn't going to have a breakdown about it...but he needs to get the payout, since they probably weren't going to hire him anyway.

Ok...I'm off into the world.

Sunday Click Around

The photo to your left is by Artist Donna Angers...this particular painting is reminiscent of Gustav Klimt...whose art I love.

While we're on art...buildings as art...while we didn't get to Barcelona, I would have loved to see the architecture of Gaudi. Here are some pictures.

Here is some silly but probably effective parental advice.

This is only funny to me because I had a shitty Dodge for years, and years.

Serbian brides kill me.
You know that they only get wild because they're taking shots at the door with you.

How to create an evening look in seconds. I got this from someone who visits here, please identify yourself..I did this and it works...I just don't suit it. Ford has a whole slew of videos on hair and make up.

I loved this. Probably because I love old YU movies, and I love the gypsy band. But while watching, I realized that all cultures have a word for when you're referring to someone in the vernacular. A generic term, like "bro"...Indians have "yaar", Mexicans have "ese", Serbians have "bre".

I'm glad I love my in-laws.

Remember Charlie the Tuna?

I love doubles. I really need to try this...and since her recipes are fantastic, there should be no problem.

Balkan history in 17 minutes, and I know you can't sit though 5.

My Grandfather was in Dachau...this site is haunting for me.

I love Viceland's Do's & Don'ts.

Sorry guys, that's all I've got for you this week.
I know it's shoddy.

I'm really loving Amy Winehouse lately.
Maybe you do too.

You know, sugar daddying/mommying has been going on forever.

It used to appear to be an independant business. One individual Golddigger, plying their trade, pretending to love and care for someone who had the money to afford the pretend love that would generally be out of their reach.

I was reading this article on an agency who will do the legwork for the Golddigger.

Like Ashley Madison who will hook up marrieds...this organization basically says what the head honchos at A.M. said when criticized for contributing to the downfall of morality:

"Hey, don't hate the player. Hate the game".

They're just providing a service...like sugardaddie.com does.

Either society has become infinitely more shallow and vapid, or people have become so disillusioned about love and relationships, that it just isn't worth even trying anymore.

Sad, really.

Dose of Dorothy

Interior

Her mind lives in a quiet room,
A narrow room, and tall,
With pretty lamps to quench the gloom
And mottoes on the wall.

There all the things are waxen neat,
And set in decorous lines,
And there are posies, round and sweet,
And little, straightened vines.

Her mind lives tidily, apart
From cold and noise and pain,
And bolts the door against her heart,
Out wailing in the rain.

When NOT to Hyphenate Your Name....

This poster ad outside of a furniture store says to me:

"We want to include the gay community, we're just not sure our other customers are ok with it...
...so c'mon bring your "friend" and buy some furniture..."

Sunday Click Around

You can caption your own picture here. I did mine in mind of their whole racist T-Shirts controversy.

There may be public outcry for you if you're a visible minority...but they can make all the fun they want if you're Russian.

Sometimes, I can't tell if someone has had plastic surgery, or if they have just aged a bit and matured in looks...other times it's ridiculously obvious. In this little video photos are shown side by side...and I must admit that with some, I couldn't tell if it was "work" or make up and not being a teenager anymore.

Asperger's Syndrome. Part of Autistic Spectrum Disorders just shows us how very complicated our brains are, and that the fact that so many people are born "normal" is a miracle... when it really should be the other way around...wait...maybe it is.

Divorce is ugly business. When games around custody, support, visitation, and parental alienation are concerned, sometimes people go over the edge. Violence of this kind isn't all that much of a problem here in Canada yet...but, don't worry, the Family Responsibility Office is working on it, there should be shootings at Old City Hall in no time.

Remember Donny & Marie?
Here's an interview with both of them: Part One, and Part Two.

Here's a great insight into Mehndi and Indian Weddings. The Bride is absolutely gorgeous as she discusses wedding traditions...for more on the Indian Wedding, check out this users videos.

This page is all things tattoo..photos of tattoos, piercings, scarring, and all kinds of other things. Plenty of NSFW photos....only two observations to share about some of the photos on the site.
I spent a lot of time going through them, and it surprises me the number of women who tattoo themselves with the word "C*nt" or "slut"...and guys who pierce, or tattoo their privates...their penis's all look like they've been dragged through a bush backwards, while hitting every branch on the way through. I guess when there's nothing left to do with it, you tattoo and pierce the crap out of it.

While we're on tattoos, that site brought this story to my attention.

Photo mistakes, or opportunities?

This is for Glacia.

Ok...that's all for now.

What if...

Anyone who has experienced melancholy more than once knows that as much as it's despised, it's also familiar...
...like that old friend that you try to cut out of your life, 
but they always come back. 

One thing about melancholy is that is consistent, you can rely on it.
When other things fall by the wayside, you can always depend on it.

It seems a strange thing that I say...melancholy as an old friend.

There is an old Russian saying that goes:
"misery is the only thing that is your own, no one else wants it. It's the one thing that no one will take from you."


Misery whispers in your ear.
God sends you a test.
Are you who you think you are?

If I hear the phrase;

"At least kids are reading!" one more time, I'm going to gag.

Who cares if they're reading...if this shite is all that they're reading.

Balkan Air Freshener



Thanks Marica!