So there’s a lot of wildfires burning here in L.A., the closest being in Chatsworth, in the western part of the valley, probably less than 20 miles from us, in the hills. The whole western sky is filled with smoke, and there’s ash falling like snowflakes all over. I hope they get it contained soon, but what with the 100 degree days we’ve been having coupled with strong winds, it doesn’t look good.
It does make for some beautiful sunsets though:
But my car needs a bath:
David Cronenberg, the director of Viggo Moretenson’s new movie “A History of Violence”, apparently thought that Viggo and his on-screen wife Maria Bello needed some “instruction” for their sex scenes, so he and his wife got down and dirty in front of the whole crew.
What some directors won’t do for the perfect scene, eh?
Japanese scientists have gotten the first photographs of the elusive giant squid in the wild! Awesome! I am obsessed with the giant squid after seeing a Discovery Channel special about them a few years ago. This one is 8 meters (26 feet) long. I wouldn’t want to be out for a refreshing swim and run into this dude.
What do rusty stovetops, exposed male butt-cracks, Norway and a cheesy 80’s rock ballad all have in common?
OK - from the website of the group that created the giant pink bunny:
He doesn’t look so happy from this view:
And THIS is the group’s press release:
The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.
The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbitís body, a country dropped from the sky; ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and intestines.
Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel.
Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside.
Such is the happiness which made this rabbit.
i love the rabbit the rabbit loves me.
It’s all nice and benign until you get to the part about happily walking through the decaying corpse. Then it loses me, I have to say.
This lovely pink bunny is an art installation which has been placed on a hillside in Italy. It will stay there for 20 years.
Now, I’m all for giant pink bunnies, don’t get me wrong. I would like one placed atop a hillside in L.A. to climb and lounge upon. However. I don’t really think this is art. It’s just a Big. Pink. Bunny.
Whether you’re a religious person or not, and I’m not, please pray for the people on this plane. Their landing gear is stuck and they are circling over LAX until they’ve dumped enough fuel to be light enough to attempt a landing. I hope I hope I hope everything works out OK.
Edited later to add: They’re OK!!!
You know, I’m actually feeling bad for Kate Moss what with all this furor over her getting photographed snorting coke. She’s now lost three contracts because of it. C’mon people, a) what she does in her private life is none of your business and b) like it wasn’t obvious she was doing it already (girl weighs about five pounds). I guess now there’s also going to be a “police probe” into the allegations. Give me a break. Maybe their time would be better served, oh, I don’t know, investigating real crimes like terrorism and murder and stuff. Just a thought.
Although I have to say, what is she doing out snorting lines when she’s got a baby at home, and why was she dumb enough to let herself get photographed doing it in the first place?
Listen up ye scurvy dogs! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day so ye best smartly be embracing your bad pirate self! (Th’ link will take ye t’ a page ‘ere ye can brush up on th’ lingo)
Arrrrrrrrrr!
Thanks to Michael at Pipedreams for alerting me to this hilarious comicstrip about a serial killer named Butch. Its tagline: “Because serial killers are people too.”
My favorite:
