Archive for November, 2011
Elvis Costello Tells Fans Not To Buy His New ‘Too Pricey’ Box Set
In a move that will certainly anger the record executives at Universal, Columbia, Warner Bros. and Mercury, Elvis Costello has written a blog post not only telling his fans not to buy his latest album but asking them to purchase a set of Louis Armstrong albums instead. In a post entitled “Let’s Make Things Sparkling [...]
Word Of The Year 2011: Tergiversate Says Dictionary.com
The word of the year is Tergiversate (see definition above) according to a panel of experts. The group composed of writers, editors and lexicographers from Dictionary.com decided that the verb Tergiversate which is pronounced [tur-ji-ver-seyt] and comes from the Latin tergiverstus meaning to change one’s mind repeatedly or to desert would be the word of the [...]
Kidnapper Sues Hostages Over Broken Promise
Even if we wanted we could not made this stuff up. A kidnapper has counter sued his two hostages for $235,000, because they broke an oral contract the trio had. In September of 2009, Jesse Dimmick from Denver was being chased by police for beating and killing a Colorado man named Michael Curtis when he [...]
Wifi Enabled Laptop May Hurt Sperm
The journal of Fertility and Sterility has published a study confirming the claim being whispered for years now that men who often have their laptops on their laps eventually end up having difficulties reproducing later in life. Researchers, from Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva in Argentina and the Eastern Virginia Medical School, teamed up to conduct the [...]
Oscar Wilde’s Tomb To Be Protected After Kisses Damage
Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland has decided to put an end to a tradition that is ruining his grandfather’s tomb. While no one knows who nor why it started but since the 1990s it has become customary for female fans of the philosopher to pucker up and leave the trace of their lipstick or lip-gloss [...]
Quai Branly Museum Puts Humans On Display
Former French soccer player and writer Lillian Thuram is the curator of an interesting exhibit currently being held at the Quai Branly Museum that shed lights on the barbarism that took place during the colonial era. The museum is featuring the many racist and degrading ways that the whites treated those with darker skin between [...]
Bill Eyes Food Carts Letter Grade In New York
Just the way your favorite restaurants are subject to a grade by the Department of Health and Human Services soon so will be street-meat vendors. Senator Jose Peralta of New York is pushing a piece of legislation to have all food carts in the city graded. The bill has received public support from Mayor Bloomberg, [...]
