And his name is Bob Rue. Isn’t that brilliant?

(Thanks to Andrew Diroll)

Colombian police have found the bodies of three human foetuses hidden in statues destined for the United States.

The discovery was made by officers searching for contraband at Bogota Airport on Tuesday. The corpses were wrapped in plastic and concealed inside statues of Christian icons, which were smashed open.

Colombian police chief Gen Jord Alirio Varon said the four- to five-month-old foetuses could have been intended for use in Satanic rituals…

(Found by Andrew Cha, thanks)

An undercover Orange County deputy says he went to Florida Hospital for a shot of pain medication, but instead the syringe was filled with glitter, the kind used in makeup.

It was cosmetic glitter, according to attorneys for the undercover deputy, injected right into muscles of the deputy’s hip. The deputy had gone to Florida Hospital for sinus surgery in October of 2000. Nurses were supposed to inject him with Demerol. But one shot, he says, didn’t make him feel better.

Three months later, he had a four-inch by four-inch mass near the injection site. It took another surgery to remove it. An analysis determined there was “green and red sparkling material” around the mass. In other words, glitter.

“When Dr. Nawiki came to me and said we took some glitter looking stuff out of my buttock, I was shocked…”

(Found by Bob Morales, thanks)

Oh my god, this is supernatural luck and fucking genius. Reported by Josh Friedman:

There’s only one pitch I’ve ever heard of that I wish I would have done.

My friends Scott Derrickson and Paul Boardman wrote The Exorcism of Emily Rose. For those of you who don’t know, the movie is based on a true case which occurred in Germany around 1970. While researching another project, Paul and Scott were given an audio tape by a NYC police detective who investigated the occult. When he gave it to them he said: “I don’t even know if I should give this to you. I truly believe playing this tape is dangerous.”

And what’s on the tape? THE RECORDING OF THE REAL EMILY ROSE’S EXORCISM FROM THIRTY YEARS AGO.

It was this tape that inspired them to write the movie. And it was this tape that helped them sell the project. Because what did they do? Well they did what you and I would hope we’d do if we were in their position. They’d take that scary-ass tape from studio to studio and play it for people.

The way I understood it went was like this: Scott and Paul would go into the room, do their pitch, and then pull out the tape recorder and some headphones. One of them would say: “There are those that believe just playing this tape invites darkness into our lives.” Then the curious exec would put on the headphones, thus drowning out all other EARTHLY AND NORMAL noise.

Then they’d press play.

Now from what I understand the tape is ABSOLUTELY THE MOST TERRIFYING THING YOU’VE EVER HEARD and consists of a girl DYING while screaming in German at two priests attempting to pull SIX DEMONS from her body.

Then Scott and Paul would leave.

Whenever I want to get really depressed, I go to Done Deal Script and Pitch Sales to find out how other people are getting rich:

Title: Untitled Maddock-Wilson Picture
Log Line: Centers on the Navy Marine Mammal Program and the animals being trained for military rescue operations.
Buyer: Walt Disney Pictures
More: This will be based on two pitches that were merged into “Navy SEALs” in February 2005. Patrick Aiello, Mark Ciardi, Jessie Nelson, Nina Laden and Mayhem Pictures’ Gordon Gray will produce. The film is set to be live action, but could be a CGI animation project.

(Interesting timing.)

Title: Boob Job
Log Line: A guy’s dreams come true when his wife gets a boob job, but his dream doesn’t turn out to be everything he hoped for.

Title: Live 2 Tell
Log Line: A black teen from the projects becomes a drug kingpin and then turns his life around.
Writer: Tupac Shakur

(The FUCK?)

Title: Twist
Log Line: A wimpy computer programmer switches bodies with a studly secret agent. The two become entangled in a complex web of espionage as they fight to survive and bring down their enemies.

Title: Parents on Strike
Log Line: Parents, who are fed up with their children’s behavior, decide to go on strike.

Title: Hall Pass
Log Line: A married couple find themselves going through the motions. The wife gives her husband a “hall pass,” which means permission to engage in extracurriculars. Complications ensue.

(Surely not!)

Title: Dope
Log Line: An undercover DEA agent intent on busting a rural Indiana pot growing ring, jeopardizes her mission by falling in love.

This is a record of the warning being handed to people upon returning to New Orleans.

CNN- US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay indicted on one count of criminal conspiracy by Texas grand jury, according to Travis County clerk’s office.

At BUZZSCOPE:

Mummy, I hate you.

The first close-up images of Saturn’s moon Tethys have been sent to Earth from the Cassini spacecraft, which flew past the moon on Saturday. As well as the expected craters and chasms, one image reveals a peculiar, spear-shaped feature…

(Bottom right quadrant)

Efforts to prevent the release of deadly clouds of toxic gas from two African lakes appear to be failing.

According to George Kling at the University of Michigan, US, unless urgent action is taken there is a real risk of a repeat of the tragic events of the 1980s when the lakes Nyos and Monoun in Cameroon suddenly released huge clouds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, killing 1800 people.

The dissolved gas is created by volcanic activity beneath the lakes and can gradually build up to dangerous levels before suddenly being released…

(I think I touched on the first one in an episode of GLOBAL FREQUENCY?)

Stuntman Jim Trella wore a suit that was on fire to greet host The Rock at the annual World Stunt Awards.

Today I wake up to Katie having been shot again by Zaiden of Toronto, and I put this up here because he has an interesting eye and because Katie loves the Zaidens.

(And because Katie’s own camera is buggered right now, so she’s not shooting much herself.)

Army Pfc. Lynndie England, whose smiling poses in photos of detainee abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison made her the face of the scandal, was convicted Monday by a military jury on six of seven counts.

England, 22, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy, four counts of maltreating detainees and one count of committing an indecent act.

She faces a maximum 10 years in prison.

Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies, “Get Smart,” has died. He was 82.

A landmark legal trial begins on Monday that could determine how the theory of evolution – one of the basic tenets of modern science – is taught in US schools.

In the town of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 11 parents of children who already attend the nearby Dover High school or who will in future, together with the American Civil Liberties Union, are suing the Dover Area School District for voting in new rules that will encourage children to consider alternatives to evolution such as “intelligent design” (ID).

The court’s verdict will only bind schools within the Dover district, but could influence how schools teach evolution across the country, says Witold Walczak, a lawyer for the ACLU…

“If we lose this case, I suspect it will send a green light to many school districts across the country that it is okay to teach ID…”

The US military wants to buy large quantities of anthrax, in a controversial move that is likely to raise questions over its commitment to treaties designed to limit the spread of biological weapons.

A series of contracts have been uncovered that relate to the US army’s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. They ask companies to tender for the production of bulk quantities of a non-virulent strain of anthrax, and for equipment to produce significant volumes of other biological agents.

The US renounced biological weapons in 1969, but small quantities of lethal anthrax were still being produced at Dugway as recently as 1998…

Eric O’Sullivan, I fucking hate you.

Tattoo by John Lind, as found on BMEzine ModBlog:

Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.

Experts who have studied the US navy’s cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying ‘toxic dart’ guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet’s smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.

Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea…

(Thanks to everyone who sent me this today)

A Hollywood producer has been charged after allegedly taking $5.5m (£3.3m) from investors for a TV drama he said was backed by US President George Bush.

The US attorney’s office alleges Joseph Medawar, 43, collected money from investors for two years but spent the majority of it on himself.

It said Mr Medawar had falsely claimed the White House had endorsed the proposed series, called DHS.

More than 70 investors, including churches, had invested money in the series on the basis that DHS – Department of Homeland Security – had been personally approved by Mr Bush…

Streaming-only, but go here for The Year Zero’s newest song, a quiet warm-late-night thing called “Holland, Say Hello.”

The Year Zero features Lili De La Mora of Sidecar.

Yunyu has a fun, cranky piece of altpop up for free download at the link: “You Are Expendable” also features the line “my brain cells migrate/I think through my ass..”