Tired of news of the war, terrorism, school killings, pedophilic congressman----here you go, enjoy.

From Chuck Shepherd's "News of the Weird"

Performance artist Kira O'Reilly's August show in Penzance, England, "Inthewrongplaceness," consisted of a naked woman cradling a dead pig for four hours at a time. O'Reilly explained, on her Web site: "The work left me with an undercurrent of pigginess (and) unexpected fantasies of mergence and interspecies metamorphoses began to flicker into my consciousness." People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called the performance merely "sick." [Reuters, 8-18-06]


I may send PETA a very, very small donation, and earmark it for their battle against sexual perverts. Again, they’re butting heads with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Freaky Fetishist, Beastiality, Perverted Artist Organization of America, or GLBTFFBPA for short. Like the last post I did like this, I keep adding to the acronym. As usual in these stories, be prepared for a report by this org that they’ve identified a gene that turns someone into whatever kind of pervert they are; in this case a perverted performance artist.

Bonus Story: (again, why I love the internet)

One Hindu family sued another in Springfield, Mass., in July over an arranged marriage after the bride-to-be presented herself to the groom's family for the first time and was judged too ugly. Vijai V. Pandey and his wife claimed they were "extremely shocked" at the woman's "protruded bad teeth" and bad complexion, among other deficiencies. A spokesman for an American Hindu organization tried to downplay skepticism over arranged marriages, telling the Springfield Republican newspaper that he had seen "very handsome men who are happy with somewhat homely women." [The Republican (Springfield), 7-5-06]