Weather Harp--Melbourne, Australia

Loatus

Instead of a hiatus.  Yeah, I'll be gone for a while to deal with a family crisis that has not only scaled new heights of douchebaggery...it has climbed OVER THEM. 

I'll post new blogs and pages I'm following periodically.  See you back here soon, ok?

Can I Eat A Little Somethin' First?

Robert Alton Harris, the subject of the documentary Procedure 769, shown here in a 1990 mugshot. 

Harris and his brother, Daniel, killed two 16 year-old boys in San Diego in 1978, one of whom was the son of the police officer who arrested the Harrises.  Robert Harris was executed by lethal injection on April 21, 1992.  More grisly details of their crimes here. 

If Robert Harris is not in the Guinness Book of World Records for Largest Last Meal, he ought to be.  His last meal?  A 21-piece bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, two large Domino's pizzas, a bag of jelly beans, a Pepsi six-pack and a pack of Camels.

It's A Little Hard To Pronounce, So...

Swedish parents Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding, in protest of the 1982 Swedish law requiring the approval of particular child names (originally enacted as a precautionary measure against families not born into nobility giving their children noble names), named their child Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116. 

It is pronounced Albin.

A Clip From the Film "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" With Subtitles From a Dolph Lundgren Movie

Dragon Ping Pong

The sickest thing I have ever witnessed.

Bad Water

The rashes on this woman's back and the backs of her arms is not due to a reaction from a histamine release; it is from an instantaneous exposure to a physical, non-allergic stimulus.

In her case, it's water.

Her urticaria--or skin rashes that are otherwise normally caused by airborne pathogens and bacteria--is called aquagenic urticaria, resulting when she is exposed to any variation in the exposure of her skin to water.  In most cases she will have to use extreme caution when confronting an emotional situation prompting her to cry, running out to her car to retrieve something she'd forgotten while it is raining, getting really excited about kicking the soccer ball around in the backyard with her or someone else's kids and needing desperately to jump in the shower before a date.

There is no known treatment.