“Keeping It Peel:” An evening devoted to John Peel, recorded from BBC Radio 1. (John Peel was the greatest DJ in the world ever, and if you don’t know anything about him, you could start here.) You’ll need to be a member of the UKNova site for the torrent to work, but that’s easily done.

It’s the BBC. I paid for this with my license fee.

An employee at Integrated Health Systems of Dunn, a nursing and rehabilitation center on Susan Tart Road, entered the facility’s den Sunday morning to find a 50-year-old mentally impaired, wheelchair-bound female patient involved in a sex act with a one-armed man, police said. The man reportedly fled on foot…

The Queen of the Sea was nearing its destination when the waves knocked it sideways.
Up to 1,500 people were crammed inside the train as it travelled 75 miles (110km) along the Sri Lankan coastline from Colombo to the southern city of Galle. At least 802 died and hundreds remain unaccounted for.

Reeling from the waves the train spun over and over, cartwheeling four times before coming to rest on a hillock. The force of the wave threw the train’s eight cars into a bog and left the coastal railroad a twisted mess of metal…

Accused serial rapist Naoki Akamatsu, the 25-year-old lead guitarist of Hysteric Blue, which was forced to shame-facedly disband in April following Akamatsu’s arrest for rape, has given up his plectrum for a plucky fight in the courts. He is fighting to limit the amount of time he spends behind bars having admitted guilt to 11 sex charges.

In the courtroom, the once charismatic rock star was but a mere shadow of his former self, the weekly says, adding that his once trademark long, blond tresses were now gone in favor of the crew cut generally seen as a sign of atonement by wrongdoers in Japan.

Akamatsu even dragged in his heavily pregnant wife and their 1-year-old boy. Astonishingly, the spouse had the temerity to beg the court to turn a blind eye toward her husband’s misdeeds, saying it had been her confinement that had ended their sex life and drove him out onto the streets to prey on other young women.

A cop covering the case says that Akamatsu has come up with an even more outlandish excuse for his actions.

“Akamatsu has a habit of slashing himself. He often cuts his wrists several times. He’s apparently incapable of feeling at ease unless he’s watching the blood roll down his arms any number of times each day. He says he started raping women to wean himself off slashing himself…”

Detail from photo by Bruce Sterling:

Peruvians can blast away their frustrations with unpopular President Alejandro Toledo this New Year with the best-selling Toledo firework bomb.

“Effigies of Toledo loaded with rockets and other fireworks are selling like hot cakes, especially ones where the body is shaped like a bomb with a fuse,” said Luz Aliaga, who sells them for $11.

Letting off fireworks at midnight is a traditional New Year celebration here.

The idea of a “Toledo bomb” was born when a reporter tried to hand the president a fake bomb — a football painted black with a fuse — during a public event this month after a survey showed most respondents would give him a bomb for Christmas.

Peru has clamped down on firework sales since more than 300 people died when a firework demonstration in a Lima shopping district shot out of control in 2001…

A man allegedly bit off and swallowed another man’s finger during a bar brawl, court officials said Thursday.

Alex Nyarubakora, 39, appeared in court in the town of Chitungwiza, 15 miles south of Harare (Zimbabwe), on Wednesday charged with assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Prosecutor Isau Janhi said Nyarubakora was arguing with his wife in a bar last week when he became angry at a second man’s attempts to intercede. After the two men began fighting, Nyarubakora is accused of biting off his opponent’s finger, chewing and swallowing it. No remains of the finger were found by police at the scene, Janhi said…

Two Long Island women who sold hot dogs and sodas from a truck were arrested on charges that their menu also featured sexual acts in exchange for money.

Catherina Scalia, 38, and Rose Skorge, 34, were arrested Wednesday afternoon after they “offered and agreed to engage in sexual conduct with others in return for a fee” at their hot dog stand, which was parked at Sunrise Highway and Rockwood Avenue, Nassau County police said in a news release. Scalia offered to expose her breasts to an undercover officer who was buying a hot dog and Skorge offered him oral sex in exchange for money…

Okay, seems that “Takako Mini” could well be Takako Minekawa.

For the many people I forced to listen to her “Fantastic Cat” — the pieces linked below don’t sound anything like her, and she doesn’t sing on them.

Takako Mini, identified on last.fm only by the photo below, is/are responsible for a suite of doomy ambient/experimental noise available as mp3 downloads here on insine.net.

Does anyone know anything about Takako Mini? I am quite fond of this stuff. warrene @ aol.com if you have information for me. You will be rewarded by my not destroying your town from space when I become Paramount Leader.

“Scott was the victim of a mobile home fire at the age of 15 and was burned over 85% of his body. To re-grow skin on his legs they, “Used skin from his chest in a skin graft,” as Scott tells it. Hence when the skin grew, “A nipple grew too and I thought it was cool to pierce it,” explains Scott…”

Of course you have money left over from Xmas. You want to buy a gift for yourself that you actually want, as opposed to the anal firming creme Auntie Bonobo gave you. Yes. You saw her licking her lips. AVAILABLE LIGHT is available from khepri.com at an $7.50 discount (just scroll down a bit).

Reviews: 1, 2, 3

Bloggers Without Borders has launched, commencing with a Tsunami Outreach program. I’m acquainted with one or two of the people behind BwB, and you can trust a donation through them.

Rachel Smythe starts a new sequence in her gleefully fucked-up The Doctor Pepper Show:

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Out this week: QUIT CITY, me and Laurenn McCubbin, the imaginary first issue of a series that doesn’t exist.

On release from December 29:

IRON MAN #2, ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #14, ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE #4 (Of 5)

I wrote an episode of the JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED cartoon, entitled “Dark Heart”. It screens in the United States on Saturday December 11, broadcast on the Cartoon Network.

8.30pm Eastern time, 7.30 Central, 6.30 Mountain, 8.30 Pacific time, 9.30 in Alaska and 3.30pm in Hawaii.

JLU Official page.

Four pages, right here: