A BBC Omnibus TV documentary from 1978, wherein a BBC crew attempt to keep up with Hunter S Thompson and Ralph Steadman.

* Saturday Night Open Mic

(link)

(biker in Aswan)

(Orca underwater)

“No-one needs to see a man getting sexual relief from a cat in slow motion. Trust me.”

Snakestress

Ninive

Maddie Greene has a fine, angry summation of the recent discovery that an “empowerment fund,” intended to aid women in the comics industry fight legal battles against sexual harrassment and assault… doesn’t, in fact, exist.

(Down)

(because it made me laugh)

“Toccata (part three)” – Wang Yi-Dong

“The Birth And Death Of The Day” – Explosions In The Sky

Also currently listening to the new Besnard Lakes, will probably play you a bit of that tomorrow.

(all mp3s provided for review purposes only and expire in seven days. Contact me if you need them taken off)

• Monica Bellucci Discloses Porn Movie Offer
  Italian silver screen siren Monica Bellucci and actor husband Vincent Cassel were once approached by director Gaspar Noe to appear together in a pornographic production
  (tags: sex film)
• AVN :: Articles – Site Honors Deceased Adult Stars
  “The Fallen Stars of X is an opportunity for all of us to share in honoring the memory of those in the adult industry who have made an impact and helped pave the way to make the industry what it is today,”
  (tags: sex obituary)

(The first group is conspiring)

In regard to my posting the strange logline for THE RICH INNER LIFE OF PENELOPE CLOUD: I have to say that I just got an email from the pilot’s writer, Jeff Greenstein, who was extremely cool about the somewhat misplaced hate in the comments section, and assures me that the show is in fact fucking genius.

I mean, I wasn’t going to not watch the pilot of a show with a title and logline like that. But now I think it’s only fair that you watch it too.

NOTE TO WRITERS: Don’t read fucking comments sections on the internet. I can barely stand to look at the comments sections on my own fucking website most of the time.

IS THIS?

(ModBlog)

No, really:

Two circus clowns have been shot dead during a performance in the eastern Colombian city of Cucuta, police say. Local reports say the audience of about 20 people, mostly children, thought the shooting was part of the show before realising both men had been killed.

Last year, a prominent circus clown, known as Pepe, was also shot dead by a unknown assailant in Cucuta…

Project Condign, the British Mininstry of Defence’s investigation into the UFO phenomenon, concluded in 2000 that UFOs (or UAPs, as they designated them, for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) weren’t physical artifacts, but in fact “strange plasmas, which are on the fringes of scientific understanding”:

A set of newly released internal Ministry of Defence documents gives a fascinating insight into the military’s interest in UFOs. They tell the story of the MoD’s decision to investigate the threat they might pose and whether alien military technology could be used in the defence of the realm. They also reveal the conflicting attitudes within Whitehall to the subject and the lengths that officials went to in order to keep the project secret.