Emily Dickinson
“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.” [Quotes of the Day]

So, as I was writing that last post I just saw that Johnny Cash has died too. CNN has it as breaking news, with no full story link yet.

From CNN:

Emmy-winning actor John Ritter dead at 54

(CNN) — Actor and comedian John Ritter has died unexpectedly after he was rushed to the hospital for a “dissection of the aorta,” his publicist Lisa Kasteler told CNN.

Ritter, who would have turned 55 next week, was the star of the ABC series “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.”

In a statement, Kasteler said Ritter was rushed to the hospital after suffering from an unrecognized and undetected flaw in his aorta.

Surgeons at the hospital tried to save the Emmy Award-winning actor but were unable to do so, the statement said.

I was a big Three’s Company fan when I was a kid. And I remember watching a bunch of it when it was in syndication. And of course John Ritter played a psycho robot on Buffy in recent past.

This also caught my eye because my Grandfather died in a similar way. It was very sudden in his case too. Bleh.

I’d just written a big long post about setting up SpamAssassin and ZOË. And then Kung-Log crashed. So I’ll just say this: ZOË is cool. Go read about it. It seems to work quite well. It really is like Googling your email.

There’s this meme that’s been floating around LiveJournal lately and I wasn’t sure that I was going to partake in it. But after some urging from someone to “post! post! post!” I decided to do it. And since my primary posting place is my blog, I’m now also releasing this out into the blog world. So, here goes.

There ya go. Enjoy!

I really didn’t know what to expect when I downloaded some episodes of an anime called Princess Tutu. I figured it would be some cutesie magical girl show. I was not prepared for the bizarre show I was inflicted with. It’s about this girl, Ahiru, who is learning ballet (her instructer is a cat person who threatens the students with marriage if they don’t do well). And she saves people by turning into Princess Tutu, a magical ballet dancer (or at least that’s what it looks like so far). Oh yes, and she’s not really a girl, she’s actually a duck. If she happens to quack when she’s in girl form, she turns into a duck until she gets wet.

This has to be one of the stranger shows I’ve seen, but it’s also one of the better ones I’ve seen. There is just something that is very charming about it. I’ve been downloading more to watch and hope it continues to be as good (though, from the reviews I’ve read it sounds like I don’t have to worry). Oh, and you can also click on the image to read a review of the show and see some more images.

This was supposed to be on my anime blog, but I’m lazy and don’t want to move it. Oops.

I give you the SUDDEN GIANT NOSTRIL GALLERY. The name speaks for itself really. It’s a gallery of giant nostril pictures. I personally like the one to the right the best.

I’m not quite sure what I think of this.

Strip clubs recruit student bodies

(CNN) — A chain of strip clubs is offering to pay tuition for co-eds who work as strippers — and keep up their grade-point averages.

With classes beginning this week, a full-page color ad, featuring a voluptuous blonde and the promise “We pay your tuition,” appeared on the back cover of The Lance, the student newspaper at the University of Windsor in Ontario.

“A girl who wants to better herself, who wants to progress, makes for a higher level entertainer,” said Robert Katzman, who is recruiting talent for his adult clubs in Windsor and in Detroit, Michigan. “They’re happier young ladies. They’re doing something with their lives.”

Katzman said his company will pay $1,500 to $2,000 in educational expenses per year to women or men who work three or four seven-hour shifts in his clubs. The money is on top of the $10 an hour that dancers are paid, in addition to cash they get from tips and private dances.

But there is a catch.

“They have to maintain a B or above average,” Katzman said. “They have to bring in their transcripts and prove they got the grades.” [CNN]

So is having strippers who have at least a B average like a big thing? Is that a turn on? I mean, I like smart girls, but I’ve never thought about what grades any other type of female entertainer got in school. I wonder if you could say you wanted a private dance, but only from an A student.

I had my browser on Boing Boing in the background for a while and kept getting distracted by this optical illusion. It’s from a site with lots of them. Many of them just as eye boggling. I decided I should inflict it on all of you.

John A. Wheeler: “If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.” [Quotes of the Day]