Anther set of Friday links.  I’m at this ungodly hour to get my butt to my old school to get some paper work done - those bastards won’t answer the phone! Hopefully I can get it all done today, since I have temp work starting Monday.  Oh, and I’m moving again - in with my Grandmother.  Yeah. That whole living rent free thing with Grandma’s cooking is too good to pass up for a few months.

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Bench Sex Fails to Satisfy

Yeah, um, OW!

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Stop the Remake!

What. The fuck. MTV is planning to make a remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I repeat. What. The Effing. Fuck?

They’re actually planning on adding new songs! WHY!? Isn’t RHPS fine the way it is? Do we need new songs, and MTV to show up and fuck up a delightfully odd movie? Can you just imagine them trying to update it? Or something horrible…like Lindsey Lohan as Janet? Leather Daddy Jesus help us, who KNOWS who they’ll cast as Dr. Frank-N-Furter … I’ve heard rumours that Marilyn Manson was approached for the role, and while I adore Manson, and I think he should have gotten the role of Wonka in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, I don’t think he should be playing Dr. Frank.

IDK, I have such an attachment to this movie. I can still remember the first time I saw it…god did I want those shoes Tim Curry wore down the elevator.

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Sugarbutch Star Contest 2008: Launch!

Ooooh, I’m hoping I can distract myself from all the crap going on with me by working on a scenario to Submit to Sinclair! His stories are hot…so is he!

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Book Review: ‘Reading the OED’, By Ammon Shea

“Ammon Shea, a sometime furniture mover, gondolier and word collector, has written an oddly inspiring book about reading the whole of the Oxford English Dictionary in one go. Shea’s book resurrects many lost, misshapen, beautifully unlucky words — words that spiraled out, like fast-decaying muons, after their tiny moment in the cloud chamber of English usage. There’s hypergelast (a person who won’t stop laughing), lant (to add urine to ale to give it more kick), obmutescence (willful speechlessness) and ploiter (to work to little purpose) — all good words to have on the tip of your tongue when, for example, you’re stopped for speeding.

Shea’s book offers more than exotic word lists, though. It also has a plot. “I feel as though I am eating the alphabet,” he writes halfway through, and you want him to make it to the end. This is the “Super Size Me” of lexicography.”

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Comic Book Idols Seek to Aid a Holocaust Artist

“As all-star comic-book team-ups go, this one beats the first meeting of Superman and Spider-Man. Three of the elder statesmen of comic books — Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Stan Lee — have joined forces to combat what they see as a real-world injustice.

The men are lending their talents to tell the tale of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, who survived two years at the Auschwitz concentration camp by painting watercolor portraits for the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Some of the artwork also survived, but it is in the possession of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. Now 85 and living in California, Mrs. Babbitt wants the artwork back, but the museum has steadfastly refused to return it.”

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George Clooney ruined my sex life!

Yeah yeah yeah, that is definitely a high class problem. Even I want to fuck George Clooney.

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Burger King Workers Fired Over Video of Teen Bathing in Sink

This is why I go to Wendy’s.