Lethal Dose

Didn’t Michael Richards “feel” Jewish too? Hell, why don’t they just convert like MM and Liz? Speaking of, I missed Liz’ bday. Sorry Liz - you know I worship you!

Anyway, read on …

“Surviving with Wolves”, first published 11 years ago, has been translated into 18 languages and was recently turned into a film.

But in a statement issued by her lawyers, Misha Defonseca, who was born Monique De Wael, confessed that while her parents, members of Belgium’s resistance, were killed by the Nazis her family was not Jewish and most of the events of the book were made up.

“Ever since I can remember, I felt Jewish,” she said. “There are times when I find it difficult to differentiate between reality and my inner world. The story in the book is mine. It is not the actual reality - it was my reality, my way of surviving.”

Madonna: feeling Jewish in her own reality.

Sammy: really Jewish.

MM: really Jewish.

“What now?”

It’s Friday and I need some PL to finish up my second week of rejoining the workforce. I heard that PL was alive and well and living in London … I hope she googles herself and finds her online fans. I wonder if she knows she’s had such an effect on so many of us?

From “The Beautiful People’s Beauty Book”, page 105:
“Putting a Total Look Together”

“When I stepped out of the elevator in a Houston office building last winter, a man stopped and stared. “Honey,” he drawled, “you sure don’t look Texan.” I take this as proof that there really is a contemporary Italian look. Just after the war it was bosom and bottom and pointed shoes with spike heels. Now, it is just as easy to spot, but harder to define: a way with accessories, a good head of hair, a straight nose, a well-defined eye, a sense of sustaining bone under the surface. There is an open quality to the Italian face, a gaze that says, “I am ready to enjoy whatever falls into the net.”

Sadly, PL, I work in Beverly Hills, where the hair is false, the straight nose is via the plastic surgeon and there is a distinct lack of sustaining bone. What should I do? And what’s wrong with bosom and pointed shoes with spike heels?

NYT, 2/28/08–Whatever their reason might be, a passing hearse or simple discomfort, Italy’s highest court ruled that men may not touch their genitals in public. The ruling settled an appeal by a 42-year-old worker from Como, north of Milan, who was convicted in May 2006 of “ostentatiously touching his genitals through his clothing,” though his lawyer argued it was a problem with his overalls. But the court struck against a broader practice: a tradition among some Italian men of warding off bad luck by grabbing the crotch. The court ruled that this “has to be regarded as an act contrary to public decency, a concept including that nexus of socio-ethical behavioral rules requiring everyone to abstain from conduct potentially offensive to collectively held feelings of decorum.” The judges suggested that if they need to, men can wait and do it at home.

Hagiography is the study of saints.
A hagiography refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people

HAG !

ie:
Adapted from Franz Werfel’s book, the 1943 film of “The Song of Bernadette” , was nominated for twelve Academy Awards; and Jennnifer Jones won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Bernadette. The film begins with: “For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible”.

So now I can put my profession as “hagiographer.”

In the Lewis Carroll News Dept:

UK Telegraph–Police are investigating whether a man choked to death while taking part in a competition with friends to see how many fairy cakes they could eat at once.

The 34-year-old, named as Adam Deeley, collapsed at the Monkey Cafe in Swansea during the early hours of Friday.

A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service said: “We attended after receiving a report a man was choking at the Monkey Cafe.”

“Police: Woman Stabbed Man Who Called Her Ugly”

YONKERS, N.Y. — A woman in Westchester County is facing charges that she stabbed a man who said she was ugly.

Kyeisha Fuller of Yonkers was awaiting arraignment Wednesday on charges of assault and weapon possession.

Yonkers Police Lt. Sean Mullins said Fuller, who’s 23, argued on Tuesday with a guest of her roommate, and it turned violent after the “ugly” remark. She allegedly used a kitchen knife to stab him in the shoulder.

Police were called and found the man bleeding on the street.

Mullins said officers saw Fuller coming out of the building while holding a knife, then ordered her to drop it and arrested her.

She’s cute! What’s his problem?

More here.

put some clothes on me!

I was looking for “wiglets” on ebay. I was looking for something like this:

to my horror, I found several of these!

– pageant moms sell wiglets for their little beauty queens, but blot out their faces w/photoshop or silly putty. i guess it’s fine to parade your kid around like a streetwalker but god forbid they show up on ebay!

i was so disturbed by that photo (it was used in several listings) that i had to look at a baby jesus/infant of prague just to get my eyes back to normal:

… back to my usual dazed state. relief.

Nobody beats Capn Wacky when it comes to sick cards (and even better comments):

All three of the St. Valentines are martyrs which means they had horrible deaths. I like this one: “Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known.”

This sounds more like it to me:

From Chaucer’s Parliament of Foules:

For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne’s day
Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.

Foul? Fowl? Fool?