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[apocalypsos]

The pope fears Harry Potter blurs the line between good and evil. Once again, the phrase "Didn't you actually read the books?" pops into my head.

Owen Wilson's going to star in a remake of Walter Mitty. Meanwhile, I'm going to roll my eyes out of my head. Just watch! (Did I ever mention my aunt Carolyn's college roommate dated Owen Wilson? Supposedly, he's a nice guy, but still. I just want the remakes to go away, damn it.)

Mystery 'sex change' has curious flocking to Myanmar monk-to-be -- ACK. She just all of a sudden grew a penis?! Please don't become an epidemic, please don't become an epidemic ...

A naked guy was caught robbing women on a Latvian beach. That gives the term "Stick 'em up" a whole new definition, doesn't it?

Norwegian homosexuals are set to launch their own soda brand, "Homo light", at an upcoming gastronomic festival, in the hope that it will help promote tolerance.

An Ohio man with the breasts of a woman has been charged with indecent exposure after he was spotted shirtless.

State wants to weed out marijuana-flavored candy. EWWWW.

A Saudi woman defied a ban on women driving to get her husband urgent medical help after he collapsed at the wheel, Al-Watan newspaper said Tuesday. Okay, that's just cool.

Skateboarder jumps the Great Wall of China. Oh, I so have to look for video of that when I get home from work. :)

Also, movie trailers -- Rent, The Baxter, Saraband, The Warrior, Asylum, The New World, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Secuestro Express, The Brothers Grimm, The Constant Gardener, Last Days, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Transporter 2, and Elizabethtown. (Hee. See what happens when I don't do a trailers post for a while? The list gets looooooooooong. ;))

Comments

[akacat]

A naked guy was caught robbing women on a Latvian beach.

If this ever happens to me, I hope I have the presence of mind to laugh at his equipment. That should scare *him* off pretty quickly.

[themikado.livejournal.com]

It's a weird world.

[phillyexpat.livejournal.com]

Re: Owen Wilson and Mitty-for awhile, Jim Carrey was attached. I remember because I invested in Mitty on HSX for awhile.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Urgh. In that case, Owen Wilson's an improvement.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

'She just all of a sudden grew a penis?! Please don't become an epidemic, please don't become an epidemic ...'

At least it grew whereabouts it was supposed to, instead of, say, her forehead, or her armpit. (Calling Dr. Cronenberg...)

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Re: Penis growing: File under New Things To Worry About.

*shake*

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Actually, its not. Its a genetic thing, where a male child got too much estrogen in the womb, and then re emerges as a male during puberty. It happens every so often in some Central American Villages. In other words, if you have hair in places you don't show in public, and get an irritating to be around as men are all month, you're fine.

Re: *shake*

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

"Shake"?
Also: I was joking.

*shrug*

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Well, I just thought it was worth mentioning that there are girls who actually grow up with the real possibility that they may become boys someday. Something to do with the genetics of the village, I think.

[cimarosa.livejournal.com]

Those fucking Norwegians. They're so cute.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's pink, pear-flavored gay soda and I want some. Oh, how I want some. Mmmmm. :)

[vass]

Homo *light*? Fuck that shit, I want the heavy homo soda.

Did I say that out loud?

Please don't become an epidemic, please don't become an epidemic ...

If it only strikes people who are praying for it, I'm OK with that.

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

She just all of a sudden grew a penis?! Please don't become an epidemic, please don't become an epidemic ...

Heeee. But was it an intellicock?

State wants to weed out marijuana-flavored candy.

Urg. Y'know... I enjoy marijuana. I do. (I mean, icon.) But let's just say I don't enjoy it for the taste.

See, that's just silly.

Transporter 2-- eee, really? With more Jason Statham? There is NOT NEARLY ENOUGH Jason Statham to go around. I want MORE!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I really have to get around to seeing the first Transporter. Oh, yes.

[octopedingenue]

Yes you do. It has an entire fight scene lovingly devoted to Jason Statham rolling around glistening in oil.

[valerie]

And *convieniently* losing his shirt when some guy he's fighting tears it off him.

And apparently the second movie will have at least some shirtless!Jason, so yay. He's got a bod to die for.

[akacat]

Mystery 'sex change' has curious flocking to Myanmar monk-to-be

I saw a special a while back -- it was probably on Discovery Health or National Geographic -- about hermaphrodites. There's one variation of hermaphrodism that's almost exactly like this article describes. The person appears to be 100% female until they hit (a somewhat late) puberty. Then ze, almost overnight, becomes male in appearance.

There's a village in South America(?) where this condition is so prevalent, kids pretty much wonder what they'll be when they grow up.

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

That's true - it's a genetic defect in that person's production of hormone during development. During puberty they don't need that certain hormone to produce testosterone and hello penis!

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

Hello penis? oh dear.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

What's funny is that in Ohio it's perfectly legal for both men and women to go topless, yet every year at Comfest they arrest women for showing their titties. Yet in Northampton, Lesbian Capital of the United States, it is technically illegal for women to go topless, and ladies go topless whenever they damn well please and can't even get arrested if they try.

Ohio: Cornerstone of Stupid. And yes, I live here.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Maybe Ratzi is annoyed that the Potter kids don't go to Chapel each Sunday. And without the weekly brainwashing, the church is screwed

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Owen, did you see this (http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/001097.html)?

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

She just all of a sudden grew a penis?!

I think I saw a porno like that once.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

Yoooo hooooo... http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

OOO. OOOOOOOOOOOOO. *desperately wants to look right now, but can't*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

It'll wait. I learned new words AND a new way the world could end!

[dorei.livejournal.com]

As much as I enjoy Owen Wilson at times? No one, and I mean absolutely NO ONE, could replace Danny Kaye.

Them crazy monks

[chaosphaere.livejournal.com]

In order to become a Buddhist monk or nun, you must not have changed sex more than three times.

I asked a Tibetan Buddhist monk how this could be... how did they go about gender reassignment back in the Buddha's day?

He said it happened spontaneously. That a monk suddenly started becoming a woman.

"What happened to him?" I asked.

He said, in his unassuming Tibetan accent, "Well, she became a nun."

[chaosphaere.livejournal.com]

Oops - left part of that out - he said he had *witnessed* this person's transformation. Personally.

My new theory is that the laws of physics in Tibet are different than elsewhere in the world. If something seems improbable, it is probably happening in Tibet, or at least anywhere where there is a significant Tibetan population. Tibetan physics are different from Western physics.

So maybe it is the same with Myanmar.

[doqz.livejournal.com]

Elizabethtown looks like a big-budget Garden State.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

THANK you! I was trying to figure out what that trailer was reminding me of, and I was drawing a total blank. :)

[divabat.livejournal.com]

"weeding" out marijuana candy?

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

The pope fears Harry Potter blurs the line between good and evil. Once again, the phrase "Didn't you actually read the books?" pops into my head.

Well, of course not. Reading promotes thinking, and the church can't have that. ;)

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Re: the skateboarder - I saw a video of it on the Daily Show last night, and that ramp was huge enough that I got vaguely nauseous when he was on the way down. I mean, JESUS CHRIST that's a long way down.

Possibly it made me uneasy because I can't even stand on a skateboard without falling over. Possibly. Possibly.

[torificus.livejournal.com]

An Ohio man with the breasts of a woman has been charged with indecent exposure after he was spotted shirtless.

...so, when I read that, I totally pictured a guy running away in glee while holding stolen breasts. There may be something wrong with me.

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

Thought I had while watching the news: if the Pope is infallible and contradicts a previous Pope (JPII, IIRC, liked HP as much as I like acronyms), does that mean the Pope's infallability only lasts as long as they're alive? And if he turns out to be fallible, can he still be canonised?

Not!Saint JPII would make me one happy Smurf. But then, I have issues and was heard singing "ding dong, the Pope is dead".

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

The Popes reserve the infallibility for important theological questions, and the idea of infallibility is actually pretty recent (like, 19th century recent), so it hasn't come up.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

All hail the Penis Fairy!

[cmstephens.livejournal.com]

The Great Wall jump happened over the weekend. I saw one advertisement for it (I think it was from DC Shoes), and then didn't hear anything about it until it was on ESPNEWS. So, for something so cool, why was it kept so low-profile?

Elizabethtown (the actual place) is like 150 miles away from here. I remember seeing articles in the paper for casting calls like a year or two ago...