This Place Is a Stranger

I've always wanted to go to comic con, and last year I had a chance to go with the Suicide Girls but I had to go to camp instead. At any rate something hilarious/horrible there happened yesterday right before Seth Rogen went on to speak about a new movie or something: someone got theys ass stabbed.

You read it here second, folks:

The attacker was later seen being led away in handcuffs. He had on a blue "Harry Potter" t-shirt.

Need I write more?

Scope it, courtesy of CNN.

This happened outside my door this morning.

It felt really unnatural.

Antique store find.

Of course... We didn't purchase. These were right in line with the "Afro-American" Santa's.

It's all expensive Bullshit.



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What a whore! :)

It Faces a Wall :)

I don't think it's actually a saga, but I have noticed that putting saga after things makes people pay more attention to them.

Today Laura and I went to see the exhibit at Rivergate mall. The room felt strange and the energy wasn't exactly positive. Seeing the different muscles flexed according to the task being performed was interesting but the idea of how strange it would've been for their eyes to start moving kept me slightl distracted.

Bodies for the exhibit are preserved using a process called plasticization. The only part of the body that doesn't survive the process is the eyes, which are replaced with lifelike glass replicas.

One of the more interesting displays consisted of 8 slices starting at the back of the skull and moving its way forward to the front of the face. The slices were about 1.5 inches thick and creepy when you get to the section that is just eyelids, lips, and thin layer of cheek skin.

After the entire exhibit I still couldn't help but wonder if those people ever thought in life that one day their bodies would be flexed and encased in plastic for everyone to observe....more.

The below image is of an ice cream sundae that costs $1,000. it has gold leaf and some chocolate imported from the moon and some kind of candies that only come from little martian men inside of volcanoes, none of which improve the flavor.

Everything about this sundae is what makes it the official "Most over-priced Ice Cream Sundae of This Place is a Stranger11111!!!!!!!:)"

This is a post about how Sunday I plan to make many posts about topics that cross all boundaries of real thought. The kinds of posts that someday people from space might read, or may currently be reading if what I am doing now is actually happening in the past.

The problem is that Chicago's building code requires commercial buildings to use copper pipes in indoor plumbing. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specifically states that drainpipes for waterless urinals "cannot be made of copper pipe, which corrodes."

Ironically, the urinals were a "gift," and are now being replaced at an embarrassing undisclosed cost. And now a pun: City Hall pisses away our tax dollars as usual.

I didn't keep up all too well without the late night bullshit, but I am sad to see Conan go I reckon. I haven't really watched his show since I was in college. But this is great:

I saw this while looking up information on making custard. Let's not bother picking apart why this ad is terrible, but I'd like to mention that it was produced on the site in flash. So it's awful execution is made worse by its potential.

Meanwhile, when I google "mascarpone custard drink," the third entry is a search page on Epicurious saying "We're sorry, we did not find any drink recipe results for: mascarpone custard pie. Still haven't found what you are looking for?"

Officials in Rock Island believe the death of a 61-year-old Galesburg man was due to natural causes, despite the fact he was found in the cab of a burnt-out semi-trailer at the USF Holland terminal

It seems that everywhere I go, dead bodies are burning.
From the Register Mail.

I am not going to lie; this year didn't speak shit to me as far as music is concerned. The two best guitar tracks to make their appearance in music are in Jay Z songs. On Jay Z's newest album, the tracks Death of Autotune and Run This Town have the best bass and guitar riffs I've heard this year, easily. Listen to the studio versions of those songs. The album is Blueprint III and its pretty fucking good.

Here is Jay Z doing Death of Autotune with John Mayer (and another guy who is no stranger to TPIAS, Tony Royster Junior):

Scientists, afraid women will never relate to or understand what they do, got together and wrote this bullshit "formula" for parking you car, which in the real world involves sending Blonde Woman Jr. out with the tape measurer. I honestly don't understand how the formula would help even if it wasn't stupid. It says nothing about the orientation of the spaces, your starting velocity, or scratch room, or the extra space you need so you can open your door. I'm making a bigger deal out of this than it is.

This pile of closets house is selling for about $900,000 in Britain. Besides being charming, it's also "only seven minutes walk from the tube."

I want to kill myself when I hear people talk.

before i wrote that article this morning, celebrityape.com was a working website, that i perused to obtain cannon fodder.

click that link. where the fuck did the website go?

this mostly sucks because now you cannot see the images in the article below that i had hotlinked.

Once again I am baffled by the fact that not everyone on Earth has the the same thought process as me. The attached image apparently caused enough trouble to appear as a top story on CNN.com this morning. Apparently it is racist and there was such an uproar over the fact that it is (was) the the number one return for a Google Image search that Google actually removed the picture.

On Wednesday morning, the racially offensive image appeared to have been removed from any Google Image searches for "Michelle Obama." - CNN

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Yep, can't remember how I discovered this on their website. But I assure you it wasn't from searching the term "casket." It may have been from one of those "Customers who bought this also liked:" sections.

The Federal Reserve will begin banning banks from charging many overdraft fees unless customers sign up for the service

More than 38 billion dollars in overdraft fees will be collected this year.

Finally. Something changes that I care about in the slightest.