Religious Joke Of The Day

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever

That's right the Hold Steady have a new album set to come out on May 4th. Although NPR is streaming it as of right now for your listening pleasure. Check it out here

12 Uses For Coca Cola

This list of uses was tested on ordinary, original Coca Cola, not the diet kind, or any of the variations there are available.
1. Cleaned a burned saucepan by pouring Coke into it and boiling. This takes out all the staining.
2. It’s easy to make a modern photograph look like an old sepia one. Just lightly brush the photograph with Coca Cola and dry quickly. Don’t wet it too much or it will buckle. Photocopied black and white pictures make great looking “antique” prints, if you treat them in the same way. Maps photocopied and treated this way, look fantastic in antique style frames.
3. If you dye your hair and the result is too intense, flat Coca Cola will help to lighten it.
4. Give old coins a soak in Coke. This gives a brilliant shine for collections and decorative items.
5. Pour Coca Cola into your kettle and leave all day. This will remove limescale and leaves it clean inside.
6. A can of Coke poured into the toilet will clean it. The acid in the drink gets to work right away.
7. Make an excellent barbecue sauce by mixing Coke and Ketchup , half and half. Coat chicken, meat, etc with this before cooking. It’s mouthwatering.
8. Flat Coke makes a good hair conditioner. Pour it over your hair, rinse and dry.
9. Put Coke into flat wide dishes in the garden and it will help to rid your plants of slugs. They are attracted by the sweet smell and once they fall in, they can’t get out.
10. Rusty bolts can be loosened by soaking a rag in Coca Cola, and wrapping it around the bolt. Leave for a few hours and it will be easier to move.
11. Clean your jewelery in a glass of Coke. Brush with a toothbrush and rinse well. (Not recommended for valuable items, or those with gem stones in them.)
12. Flat Coca Cola helps to settle upset stomachs. Don’t use fresh, fizzy Coke as this could irritate the condition. (Take the fizz out by adding a little sugar, if you need to.)

20 Strange and Mysterious Medical Syndromes

Doctors have come across some baffling day-to-day ailments, but few conditions are as strange as these 20 disorders, which range from biological to psychological to cultural in nature. 


Foreign Accent Syndrome
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a speech disorder that causes sudden changes in speech pattern, intonation and pronunciation so that the victim is perceived to speak with a "foreign" accent. FAS usually results from severe trauma to the brain, such as a stroke or head injury, and typically develops within one or two years of the injury. Of the 50 to 60 cases that have been verified since 1941, only a few FAS sufferers regained their normal speech pattern, although some experienced success through speech therapy.

Sexsomnia
Sexsomnia is a sleep disorder that, much like sleepwalking, compels the sufferer to engage in sexual activity while asleep. Identified in 2003, sexsomnia has since been cited to acquit defendants accused of sexual assault in British and Canadian criminal cases.

Exploding Head Syndrome
People with exploding head syndrome intermittently hear loud, explosion-like noises that seem to originate from within their own head. The "explosions" usually occur within an hour or two hours of the victim falling asleep. There's no physical pain, but sufferers understandably experience fear and anxiety after such attacks. While it's not clear what exactly causes the syndrome, it's been linked to stress and fatigue and often vanishes without any treatment.

Fatal Familial Insomnia
Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a genetic sleep disorder that causes increasing sleeplessness, typically starting around the age of 50. The victim's brain develops a plaque that inhibits the ability to sleep, and with less and less sleep, mental illness -- including phobias, panic attacks, paranoia, dementia and hallucinations -- set in. Within six months to three years after onset, the patient dies. There is no known cure.

Congenital Insensitivity to Pain
People with a congenital insensitivity to pain (CIPA) cannot feel physical pain, typically due to the mutation of a gene associated with the transmission of pain in the body. As such, they are more susceptible to death by trauma, since they might not be aware of the extent of damage done to their own bodies. There have been around 100 cases documented in the US.

Genital Retraction Syndrome
Genital retraction syndrome (GRS) is a mental condition prevalent in specific cultures that causes sufferers to believe that their external genitals are shrinking or slowly disappearing into their bodies. The widespread belief of the occurrence in portions of Asia and Africa has led to so-called "penis panics," episodes of mass hysteria in which thousands of cases, often tied to local beliefs in witchcraft, may be reported in a short period of time.

Werewolf Syndrome
Hypertrichosis, or werewolf syndrome, is a medical condition that causes the excessive growth of body hair -- typically on the upper body, including the face.
There are only 50 or so documented cases, and sufferers generally acquire it through genetic inheritance. In 2008, scientists at Columbia University found that an injection of testosterone significantly helped in long-term hair loss in patients with hypertrichosis; the finding was hailed by many as a cure.

Pica
Pica is a compulsion to eat non-edible objects. Sufferers have been known to consume paper, dirt, paint, hair, glue, rocks, lint and laundry detergent. Related disorders include acuphagia (the eating of sharp objects) and hyalophagia (the eating of glass). There is no concrete cause, but pica is believed by many to result from a mineral deficiency, and as such, it's found most frequently in pregnant women and children in lower-income areas.

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
AIWS is a neurological condition that causes distorted visuals that make objects appear either much smaller (micropsia) or larger (macropsia) than they are. It's a temporary condition that's often associated with migraines, although it can also be caused by brain tumors and hallucinogenic drugs.

Capgras Delusion
The Capgras delusion is a mental condition in which the sufferer comes to believe that someone close to him -- typically a spouse or family member -- has been replaced by an identical imposter. The sufferer may continue to live peacefully (though distrustfully) with the "imposter," or he may violently attack the loved one. Some people with Capgras delusion even second-guess their own reflections. The condition is typically caused by brain injury or mental illness like schizophrenia and dementia.

Alien Hand Syndrome
Also known as Dr. Strangelove syndrome and "anarchic hand," AIS is a neurological disorder that makes the victim feel like he has lost control of one of his hands. In extreme cases, sufferers have been reported to engage in violent wrestling with their own hand, with the appendages even trying to strangle the patient while sleeping. Alien hand syndrome is caused by trauma to the brain -- such as a stroke, aneurysm or head injury -- and the symptoms can be treated, although the condition itself has no cure.

Stendhal Syndrome
Stendhal syndrome is the name given to a feeling of anxiety -- dizziness, confusion, rapid heartbeat, even hallucinations and fainting -- upon seeing beautiful works of art. The overwhelming sensation can come from the exceptional beauty of one particular piece of art or from the abundance of art in one location. The condition is most widely associated with the art of Florence, Italy, although it has been applied to similar reactions to overwhelming beauty of any type.

Walking Corpse Syndrome
Sufferers of walking corpse syndrome, also known as the Cotard delusion, believe that they are dead, decaying or have lost body parts or internal organs. In some cases, victims believe that they don't even exist. Like the Capgras delusion, walking corpse syndrome is typically the result of brain damage or mental illness.

Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is a form of the exaggerated startle reflex known as hyperexplexia, so named because it was first observed in French-Canadian lumberjacks in the Moosehead Lake region of Maine in 1878. Sufferers were reported to react abnormally to loud, sudden noises -- screaming, flailing, muscle seizures and, most puzzlingly, obeying commands in a reflexive, involuntary manner. For instance, when instructed in a loud, authoritative voice to hit someone, they would do so without question. It's believed to be a genetic condition caused by a blockage of an amino acid that calms the central nervous system.

Jerusalem Syndrome
Jerusalem syndrome is a form of religious mania resulting from, or leading to, a visit to the city of Jerusalem. Typically, a sufferer (of Christian or Jewish background) experiences a sudden religious fervor upon visiting the city, leading them to the belief that they are on a religiously significant mission and quite possibly that they are a specific biblical figure. People experiencing Jerusalem syndrome often end up dressing in a white robe and delivering a sermon at a religiously significant site in the city. Since 1980, there have been an average of close to 100 cases per year reported. It's debatable whether or not sufferers had previous mental problems before visiting Jerusalem.

Spasmodic Dysphonia
Spasmodic dysphonia is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary movement of the larynx, causing muscle spasms that impair speech. Strangely, however, sufferers usually have no such hindrances when singing, whispering, laughing, speaking in a high pitch or even in rhymes. There is no known cure, although injections of Botox into the larynx have been shown to provide short-term relief.

Medical Students' Syndrome
Medical students' syndrome is a temporary, hypochondria-like mental condition that strikes medical students, causing them to believe that they are suffering from the diseases that they're studying. By some reports, up to 80% of medical students experience it at some point as a result of studying such frightening diseases in such a highly suggestible environment.

Moebius Syndrome
Moebius syndrome is a neurological disorder that affects people from birth and is characterized by the inability of its sufferers to form facial expressions. People with Moebius syndrome are unable to move their facial muscles, meaning they can't smile, frown, suck or even blink their eyes. They are also unable to move their eyes from side to side and have difficulty swallowing.

Fish Odor Syndrome
Fish odor syndrome, or trimethylaminuria, is a disorder that causes the sufferer's breath, sweat and urine to give off a strong fishy smell (not that breath, sweat or urine otherwise have great odors). It's caused by the inability of the body to break down a specific, fish-odored compound in foods. There is no cure, but sufferers can control the symptoms by avoiding certain foods and taking antibiotics.

Synesthesia
People with synesthesia ("synesthetes") associate a stimulus with one of the five senses not typically related to it. For instance, they may describe a certain sound as having a color. There are several different types of synesthesia, mixing sight, sound, taste and other sensory elements, and by some estimates, as much as 5% of the population has some level of incidence. It's a harmless condition and is often genetic, although some people have reported experiencing it as a result of a stroke or loss of sight or hearing. Perhaps because of its sensory nature, synesthesia is frequently reported amongst artists and musicians.

East Coast Skate Rock Tour

This looks RAD!



Altamont presents
Skate Rock
East Coast Tour
April 25 - May 4, 2010
Featuring Bad Shit and The Goat
with the Altamont skateboard team
plus special guests TBA...
Monday, April 26
Caledonia
256 West Clayton Street
Athens, GA 30601
Doors 9pm
Show 9:30
Tickets at door
Ages 18+
$2 over 21 / $4 for 18 - 20
Thursday, April 29
The Soapbox
255 North Front Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
Doors 9pm
Show 10pm
Tickets online or at door
All ages
$5 over 21 / $8 under 21
Saturday, May 1
Sonar
407 East Saratoga Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Doors 8pm
Show 9pm
Tickets online or at door
and at VU Skate Shop
All ages
$3
Sunday, May 2
Exit Skate Shop
825 North 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
215.425.2450
Matinee Show 5pm
All ages
Free
Tuesday, May 4
Autumn Bowl
67 West St
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Door 8pm
Show 8:30
Tickets at door
All ages
$5

More info HERE

Toy Machines Ed Templetons Art Exhibit.

The Cemetery of Reason from Emerica Europe on Vimeo.

New Band Of Horses Song : Laredo

 

 Pre order the album here Infinite Arms
Older albums Everything All The Time
 Cease to Begin
Everything All the Time

Free Kill Rock Stars Sampler

01 ELLIOTT SMITH "Angeles" from Either/Or
02 THE THERMALS "Now We Can See" from Now We Can See
03 GOSSIP "Standing In the Way of Control" from Standing In The Way of Control
04 THAO "When We Swam" from Know Better Learn Faster
05 SLEATER KINNEY "Oh!" from One Beat
06 PANTHER "Love Is Sold" from Entropy
07 UNWOUND "Corpse Pose" from Repetition
08 THE PAPER CHASE "What Should We Do With Your Body? (The Lightning) from Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 1)
09 XIU XIU "Dear God, I Hate Myself" from Dear God, I Hate Myself
10 DEERHOOF "Believe E.S.P." from Friend Opportunity
11 QUASI "Repulsion" from American Gong
12 MARNIE STERN "Transformer" from This Is It...
13 STEREO TOTAL "I Love You, Ono" from My Melody
14 LILIPUT "Ain't You" from Liliput
15 BIKINI KILL "New Radio " from New Radio
16 BRATMOBILE "Die" from The Real Janelle
17 COMET GAIN "Kids In The Club" from Realistes
18 THE SHAKY HANDS "Allison and the Ancient Eyes" from Let It Die
19 THE DECEMBERISTS "16 Military Wives" from Picaresque
20 HORSE FEATHERS "Curs In The Weeds" from House With No Home
21 JEFF HANSON "Hiding Behind the Moon" from Son


DOWNLOAD IT HERE... KILL ROCK STARS

New Chris Haslam Indy Ad

All Hell Breaks Loose

This Is Supposed To Pass As Punk Rock?

No, sorry, I hate to break the news to you but the bands on that album are NOT punk rock. Not even a good try. Go watch American Hardcore, Another State of Mind or The Great Rock and Roll Swindle.

Egg Plant Of The Day: Neil Blender

An oldie but goodie.

OJ Skateboard Wheels Green Heat Neil Blender 58mm/82b

Don't Say I Didn't Warn You

These Dogs Know What's Up

What could have provoked this?

Good Ol' Booze

Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol

News Photo Of The Day

10 Biggest Jumps Ever.

Not sure why Danny Way jumping the Great Wall Of China didn't make it, but awesome just the same.

Northern Italy Street Art

Rockbois Documentary from ryan Dooley on Vimeo.

PHOENIX AM: Best Trick

TheSkateboardmag has some awesome footage of the Phoenix AM best trick contest. Check it out.

Skateboard Mag
THE SKATEBOARD MAG #72 MARCH 2010 TYLER BLEDSOE
The Skateboard Mag (January 2010)

Explain This Image

I found some strange pics over at Explain This Image

No Underwear Subway Ride

Not sure what they were trying to prove with this one. 



No Underwear Subway Ride - Choicetv.gr from choice tv on Vimeo.

What Mental Disorder Do You Have?

HP Computers Are Racist !

Michelle, “The Pass Around Girl”

NSFW..... Not too sure what to say about this one. Check it out HERE

Let's hope he didn't consummate his wedding

Man marries dog to lift curse


We have all heard the 'man bites dog' stories, but how about a real-life 'man marries dog' tale!

This one takes the biscuit, and it could only happen in India, the land of the Kama Sutra.

But you won't find this kind of love story between man and beast in the ancient Indian sex manual.

It took place for real during a traditional hindu ceremony at a temple in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

The groom in question was a 33-year-old Indian farmer named Selvakumar, and he was wed to a female dog named Selvi.

He married his four legged bitch to atone for stoning two other dogs to death and stringing them up in a tree 15 years ago.

He believed the act cursed him and he had been suffering ever since, he told the Hindustan Times.

After he stoned the dogs he said his legs and hands got paralysed, he lost hearing in one ear, and his speech was impaired.

With doctors unable to help him, Selvakumar turned to an astrologer who told him he was cursed by the spirits of the dogs he had killed.

He could undo the curse only if he married a dog and live with it, the soothsayer warned.

Family members chose a stray female dog who was then bathed and clothed for the wedding occasion.

Selvi the bride was brought to the temple by village women and a Hindu priest conducted the ceremony.

The paper showed a picture of Selvakumar sitting next to his canine bride, which was adorned in an orange sari and flower garland.

The paper said the groom and his family then had a feast, while the dog got a bun.

It was reported that Selvi attempted to make a bolt for it -- apparently due to the big crowds -- but she was tracked down and returned to her new 'husband'.

"The dog is only for lifting the curse and after that, he plans to get a real bride," a friend of the groom said.

Deeply superstitious people in rural India sometimes organize weddings to dogs and other animals, believing it can beat certain curses.

Really?

This can't be good

Danish Brewers Strike Over Beer Ban

(April 9) -- Some 800 warehouse workers at Danish brewer Carlsberg staged a wildcat strike this week after company bosses decided to restrict their work time beer drinking to lunch breaks. Yes, you read that correctly: The workers are furious that they're now only allowed to chug ice-cold brews at lunch, instead of all day long.

"There was no dialog over the issue at all," Dennis Onsvig, a union representative at the Copenhagen facility, told The Copenhagen Post, "and that's just not good enough."
Hundreds of warehouse workers at Danish brewer Carlsberg staged a wildcat strike this week after company bosses decided to restrict their work time beer drinking to lunch breaks


Company spokesman Jens Bekke said employees started to walk out soon after Carlsberg -- the world's fourth largest brewer -- announced that warehouse staff could only neck one beer at lunch. Previously workers had been allowed to sip three bottles, conveniently stashed in coolers dotted around the complex, throughout the day. "There has been free beer, water and soft drinks everywhere," he told Reuters. "Yesterday, beers were removed from all refrigerators. The only place you can get a beer in [the] future is in the canteen, at lunch."

Carlsberg's truck drivers also joined in the protest, even though they're still entitled to three brews a shift. Management had previously tried and failed to take away the truckers' allowance. Instead, they fitted alcohol locks to all company trucks, so a vehicle won't start if a driver's blood-alcohol level is over the legal limit.

Claus Hyldahl, head of health at Danish medical clinic Lægernes Testcenter, told the Copenhagen Post that it was "amazing" that anyone would still be allowed to drink at work in 2010. "Some employees may think they're not affected by three beers," he said. "But for most people there's a significant difference between their second and third drinks. And if you're not affected after three drinks, then you have a serious alcohol problem."

Still, if Carlsberg workers want to be allowed to glug on the job, they might consider moving south and joining the German army. Each German soldier is allowed a liter of beer a day (about a fifth of a gallon), and in 2008, the 3,600 German troops stationed in Afghanistan quaffed a hefty 220,000 gallons of beer, and more than 15,000 gallons of wine. But for all that, they're at war in Afghanistan, which might make a beer at lunch in Copenhagen seem good enough after all.

Booze N Tits!

This video has gotta make you wan get your shred on.

Real Dennis Busenitz Extreme 7.75" x 31.5" Skateboard Deck

Real Dennis Busenitz Heat Wave 8.18" x 32" Skateboard Deck

Thunder Hi 147 Dennis Busenitz I-Busenitz Skateboard Trucks - 8.0" Axle (Set of 2)

Real Dennis Busenitz Classic 7.81" x 31.75" Skateboard Deck

Real Dennis Busenitz Realicon 7.75" x 31.4" Skateboard Deck

Real Dennis Busenitz Seizures 7.68" x 31.5" Skateboard Deck

Now this is a setlist!

Bad Brains

Bad Brains

Holy damn! The Bad Brains just played the Phoenix AM skateboard contest. Check out the setlist.  Still ripping after 30 years!

Bad Brains [Explicit]

Bad Brains Capitol Black Adult T-Shirt, Size: Medium

Rock for Light

Umm OK.....

U.S. Mom gives son to Russia

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Not too bright? You can say that again.

Police in Connecticut say they had ample warning of a bank robbery because the two suspects called the bank ahead of time and told an employee to get a bag of money ready.
Police arrested 27-year-old Albert Bailey and an unidentified 16-year-old boy on robbery and threatening charges Tuesday afternoon at a People's United Bank branch in Fairfield.
Sgt. James Perez says the two Bridgeport residents showed up about 10 minutes after making the call and were met by police in the parking lot. Perez told the Connecticut Post the suspects were "not too bright."

Police: Drunk Pa. man tried to revive dead opossum

 Too funny.

Police say they charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a long-dead opossum along a highway. State police Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal Thursday along Route 36 in Oliver Township, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance. He says another saw Wolfe attempting to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Levier says the animal already had been dead a while.

Dead man denied seat on plane

Gitta Jarant and Anke Anusic were arrested after attempting to check in Curt Willi Jarant, 91, on a flight from Liverpool to Berlin. Turns out, Jarant was dead. Gitta Jarant, the man's widow, and Anusic, his stepdaughter, claim that they thought he was alive but sleeping. The two are suspected of "failing to give notification of death" and are out on bail. I am unsure if the photo, accompanying a BBC News article, depicts Jarant before or after he died. From the BBC News: "He was released from hospital. He was fine. If he was not fine the hospital wouldn't release him," she said.

And she insisted that with his eyes closed they believed he was asleep.

"He was alive. He was pale but he wasn't dead," Ms Anusic added.

"A dead person you cannot carry to Germany, there are too many people checking and security. How can you bring a dead person to Germany?"

They don't dance like they used to......

Steve Rocco

Skateboarding Magazine is running an article on Steve Rooco and how he changed the world of skateboarding.
Read all about it here.

This looks like a great show

Agent Orange : Front Page News

It's gonna be a Bitchen Summer!

KIM GORDON: THE NOISE PAINTINGS

Kim has an exhibition entitled : “The Noise Paintings” at John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in Manhattan April 8- May 8 2010.  According to the gallery’s site: “Loosely painted words have dripping edges and bleeding contours that threaten to disrupt or annihilate the sense within. There is the feel of un-stylized urban graffiti, of the anonymous, spontaneous scrawls encountered in the profane world.  The gesture, the moment of creation, with all its attendant expressiveness is paramount. And yet, as lyrics, and personal catch phrases, Gordon has produced these words before, on paper and on canvas.  They are like personal mantras, surfacing repeatedly at moments of creative charge and expression. From the provocative (16 Bitch Pile Up) to the banal (Wet Hair) by way of the personally obscure (Sudden Oak) the words find a new unique form each time the artist commits them to a surface.
In partnership with Ecstatic Peace Library, JMc & GHB Editions will introduce a special edition of a new publication, Kim Gordon, The Noise Paintings. Drawn from a full edition of just 200, the special edition will comprise 26 lettered copies enclosed in a custom made cloth box with an original painting and recording laid in.”

Performing/Guzzling: Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon: Chronicles Vol.1
Kim Gordon: Chronicles Vol. 2
Syr 5
Kim's Bedroom

Distorted Magazines Interview With Duane Peters

Distorted Magazine has just posted an interview with the legendary punk rock/skateboarder Duane Peters.


Duane Peters Who Cares Skateboard Dvd

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