Pacificapocalypse

Ok this is just creepy. An East Bay High School holds a car wash to raise cash for the school water polo team… by having the team stand on the street corner wearing nothing but their regulation Speedo’s luring passersby. Who thought this was a good idea? Would the cheerleader squad in bikini’s washing cars be okay then? There’s so much wrong here.

From SFist:

The kids at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek had a money-making scheme this past weekend. One that, for better or for worse, involved the school’s water polo team wearing only regulation Speedos, standing on a street corner, and luring passersby.

Now that we have your attention, this car wash benefit, at right, has stirred much controversy. It seems before Saturday’s incident, area girls — underage women, mind you — have done the same thing, too, in high school-fundraising efforts.

Hm. Anyway.

The Mayor of Claycord, who writes one of the finest blogs on the other side of the Bay, posed a question: “High school kids standing on a busy street corner while wearing speedos, is it inappropriate, or just a harmless way to promote a high school water polo team’s fundraiser?”

What say you, readers? Are you OK with a business model that uses high schoolers’ budding sex parts as a way to raise funds? Is it OK for schools, just like Disney, to prostitute their underage students for cash?

Also, if you found the image to the right enticing, sign up here for more.

Okay, tragedy averted, everyone relax; I think the most important thing we can take away from this incident is this:

One student, Hongying Markowitz, compared the sound of the explosion to a “gunshot.”

Hongying Markowitz?
Most awesome cross-cultural name ever.

Flying car.
As fortold in the prophesy of the ancients.

Holy crap, I want this thing more than Christmas.

From the Times Online:

To Timbuktu by flying car: it sounds the most unlikely journey on earth; a sci-fi voyage from the pages of Jules Verne. But this is no fantasy. The car really flies. And the journey will become reality early in the new year when two explorers set off from London in a propeller-powered dune buggy heading for the Sahara.

Ok so it’s not the classic Jetson’s flying car but it has a certain Mad Max appeal.

DUDE! FLYING CAR!

And remember, it’s the labor that cost the most, not the parts.

Seriously, I’m warning you, this gave me the absolute jibblies.

One word: spiders.

Now normally, spiders don’t particularly freak me out – I’ll admit to a certain unease, especially in movies that feature hundreds of the little fuckers. Dude! There’s no way to fight them! Guns are useless, you need like, poison gas or a freaking’ flame thrower.
But the occasional spider in the house doesn’t send me quivering.
This story and the accompanying pictures did.
Mouse over the link for an hint of the horrors that await.

You’ve been warned.

There is so much wrong in this article, I don’t even know where to begin.
Emphasis all mine.
Via the Burlingame Daily News

Yay! Pacifica! Keeping it real!…weird.

REPO! The Genetic Opera
Saw this on Comcast previews a few months back and it’s stuck with me.
Now I see it’s starting to build a buzz. Looks wacky; a musical sci-fi splatter fest?
What’s not to like?
And from the above still pic: BOOBIES! YAY!
Opens November 7.
Maybe.

We just watched the full directors version of The Exorcist again this weekend (and Kaitlin *says* she wasn’t scared… yeah, right.) and the timing is just too cool; check out The Exorcist Spider Walk action figure. This is freaking AWESOME.
And only $16.95! I so want this but I know me – I’d end up with a whole bookshelf full of these damn things – I wouldn’t know when to stop and eventually they just collect dust.
Still… so cool.
AND! Check out “The Birds” Barbie Doll too.