Changing: my plans for the weekend

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Who would have thought that innocently cleaning a lawnmower in your bedroom while smoking a cigarette could possibly be dangerous. They should really put a label on those things.

Enjoying: Grand Theft Awesome Four

Pretty well sums up the experience - although I think I enjoy the game more than this guy does - and I don't cheat.

Loving: Chainsaw Maid

I'm not sure if I will ever understand the Japanese mind if their pop culture is anything to go by.
I'm just happy that it is so consistently, mind-blowingly awesome.

This claymation by a 22 year old college student called takena is one of the most violent ones I have ever seen - but it's funny because it's claymation.

Watching: the dog cloning, Mormon missionary abducting woman story get stranger

In the beginning there was a woman called Bernann McKinney who was the first person to pay to have her dead dog cloned. It was a Pit-Bull named Booger and she paid nearly $50000 (Australian) for the privilege to a lab in Korea, who in turn gave her 5 puppies.

Ok, a little odd but it's a brave new world we live in so I thought, huh - what an odd name for a dog, lets move on.

Being the silly season in the Northern Hemisphere, this story quickly spread and once a few people had seen her picture, the question was soon asked - is this the Joyce Bernann McKinney who in the U.K in 1977 was charged with abducting a 21 year old Mormon missionary and securing him to a bed with mink handcuffs to have sex with him? The same woman who skipped bail with her alledged co-conspirator and left the country posing as a pair of deaf-mute mime artists?

While she initially denied this, before long she fessed up that it was her but claimed to be innocent of the charges, claiming that it was all consensual. (They had apparently been having an affair in the U.S some time beforehand)

Riiiiiight - so you would think perhaps that this was weird enough right?

Almost.

Now stories are emerging, just to ice that oh so fruity fruit cake that in 2004 she may also have instructed a 15 year old boy in Tennessee to burgle a house so that she could raise money to buy a wooden leg for a favourite pet horse.

Really.

All things considered though, this is someone who probably deserves their moment in the media sun - unlike the rich girl fame-whores that we're used to seeing. At least this woman is interesting.

Did I mention she was also Miss Wyoming in her youth?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1042506/A-cloned-dog-Mormon-mink-lined-handcuffs-tantalising-mystery.html

Preparing: Music for Monday

These are some of the tracks I have lined up for the show this afternoon - 4 - 6pm 98.3fm Canberra

1150 Closer To The Boxer.mp3 The Kleptones 24 Hours (Disc 1) 4:55
Anarchy In The UK Sex Pistols Rage - The Songs Most Chosen By Rage Guest Programmers 3:32
Bananas And Blow Ween White Pepper 3:35
Theme From Shaft Isaac Hayes The Best Of Blaxploitation (Disc 1) 4:37
Do Your Thing Isaac Hayes Greatest Hit Singles 3:18
Life On Mars David Bowie Best Of David Bowie 69-74 3:52
I believe in a thing called love The Darkness Permission to land 3:36
She bangs the drums The Stone Roses The Very Best Of 3:50
Descent Into The Maelstrom Radio Birdman The Essential Radio Birdman (74-78) 4:24
England 2 Colombia 0 Kirsty MacColl Tropical Brainstorm 3:46
Bohemian Like You The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia 3:32
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again [The Angels] Rob Craw Used And Recovered By 4:25
Running One Tykwer/Klimek/Heil Run Lola Run 5:32
Loaded Primal Scream Screamadelica 7:03
You Never Had It The Magic Numbers Those The Brokes 2:58
Fashion Death Trends Frausdots Couture, Couture, Couture 2:51
Bird The Knife The Knife 4:34
This Land Is Your Land Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Naturally 4:31

Blogging: about the blog feedback buttons

It's kind of hackneyed (but so very meta) to blog about your blog (you know that a song-writer is uninspired when you start hearing songs about life in a band on tour) but I thought I'd just mention the new You Say: feedback buttons that will hopefully appear at the bottom of each post now.

If you have a response to a post but can't be bothered putting a full fledged comment together (and face it, we're all busy people here clearly) then you should now just be able to take your pick between funny, interesting or meh but just clicking on the button. (Yes, it is skewed in my favour - that's the power of the media I guess)

So please, let me know what you think (assuming that this has worked) - it's always nice to know you're not just spouting off to the ether. (Or because of it)