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Making friends with salad

  1. Where the PLUTONIUM AT?
  2. Your tax dollars at work: Go shorty, it’s yo bat mitzvah. I would love to have been a roadie at this gig.
  3. AdJab pointed to today’s weird weird use of licensed clip art. Maybe she’s worried Linus is going to cap her if she keeps stalking him?
  4. Hummer + Fiat = COMEDY GOLD! This is like the Giorgio Moroder version of a hip-hop ride. What. The. HEY. Let’s all flashdance in my 8 ton neon femme-mobile!
  5. This is interesting. A story on Feministing about discrimination against female firefighters draws first the typical Internet troll who bashes women firefighters, and then a full body slam on both this guy and the article from an actual woman firefighter who has a totally different backstory. Unsurprisingly, it turns out to be about money.
  6. For the twee Japanese rocker girl in your life, or the Comic Book Guy who likes thinking about twee Japanese rocker girls, here’s the Hello Kitty Guitar. I think rumplestimpskin needs the Badtz Maru Bass, so I’ll have to steal one for her.
  7. We joked about Gogurt and Vodka years ago. Now there’s uh… go vodka? Blerghk!

Day with lot fate when it is the same as lover and friend.

  1. The previously reported Hausfrau Strippercize Trend now includes a company that sells portable pole-dancing equipment. An amusing and/or horrifying ad for this is viewable here (SFW). They also sell a lapdancing kit. I was not aware that lap dances required a kit. Via Adjab.
  2. This lamer on the run from the cops tried a few things, including an attempted carjacking along the way in Wildomar, CA. For local reference, that’s where Bob Trout lives, and he has no idea how lucky he is not to have carjacked Bob & Mary. I can imagine the story later. “He was telling Mary to give up the keys when I took the gun away. Had to take a couple fingers too. Put ’em in a baggie, poor fucker will need ’em in the joint.”
  3. This person shares my exact feelings about skepticism: It’s a love/hate relationship.
  4. High-quality crazy via mendel I forgot to mention that my life is very similar to that of the celebee or the forest guardian in the Japanese anime Pokeman Forever movie.
  5. The Exploding Aardvark has today’s best headline: GOAT ATTACKS COULDN’T KEEP HER FROM CHURCH.
  6. This craigslist poster seems to have good values, but her language skills result in comedy: Why not to spend your evening cuddling with your love ones VS warming a chair in an office and burning your brain to be remember by whom?
  7. The Vark also gave me Mondo Croquet, which reminds me of the way I played croquet in our back yard as a kid, except with BIGGER BALLS.
  8. One more varklink: Where’s the toxics at in my neighborhood? (USA)
  9. Jalopnik linked to the most fabulously fucking awesome drifting video ever. How he doesn’t roll, I do not know. Jesus Christ.

local news provides holy shit story

Fullerton police officer saves child from train

Autistic 13-year-old had wandered off and was spotted from a helicopter, walking on tracks with train approaching.

By JOHN McDONALD
The Orange County Register

FULLERTON – A routine search for an autistic 13-year-old boy who wandered away from a friend’s house turned dramatic Tuesday night when a police helicopter crew spotted him walking on railroad tracks with a train approaching from behind, officials said.

Fullerton police raced to the scene with sirens blaring and emergency lights flashing.

Fullerton police officer Chris Bradley tore his hand open climbing a barbed-wire fence to reach the boy before the train hit him.

“It wasn’t like in the movies but it was a close call,” said Fullerton police Lt. Neal Baldwin.

The incident began at about 10:20 p.m., when police were called to a home on the 1900 block of Odell Place, where residents reported that Luis Perales, 13, of Garden Grove had been visiting and had wandered off. They reported that Perales is autistic and has the mental age of a 5-year-old.

“The officers also learned that the boy was infatuated by trains,” said Baldwin.

The tracks of the Union Pacific and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads converge just a few hundred yards from the home that the youngster had been visiting.

“We had Anaheim’s helicopter check the tracks and they spotted him walking westbound about three miles away, almost in La Mirada,” Baldwin said.

The helicopter crew also saw a train headed toward the youngster, approaching him from behind.

Bradley pulled the boy to safety. Bradley was taken to a hospital for his hand to be treated and Perales was reunited with his family, Baldwin said.