The Melitta cone seems like a good idea for me, but then I'd need a kettle, huh?

Oh, just fucking ugh.

It looks like there's going to be some saber rattling at Iran.

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The mess keeps getting messier.

For decades Japan's love hotels have provided a place for couples to enjoy anonymous, uninterrupted sex. Politician and secretary, teacher and student, husband and hooker -- all are welcome, as long as they pay in cash and leave when the time limit is up. But 2006 spawned a new type of love hotel. Decorated with theme park interiors and equipped with game consoles, karaoke boxes and sex machines -- these establishments provide kinky fun for all types, from fetishists and sadomasochists to the ordinary couple seeking sexual adventure.

In her new book, Love Hotels, American photographer Misty Keasler portrays some of the newest, most creative love hotels in Japan. Here's a sneak peek.

[link] Worksafe - except some of the thumbnails, when clicked, are not.

School girl fantasies pervade every culture, but there's something about the sailor uniform that makes boys go wild. This room replicates a typical Japanese public high school classroom. Notice how the clock is set to 3:40 p.m., right around the time when most students have left the building and you can have your horny after-school detention student all to yourself.

OK, that's to be expected. But this:

The pink-and-white cherry-covered bedspread creates a kinky contrast with the blood red cuffs that adorn its four corners in the Hello Kitty S&M Room. A stuffed version of the celebrated pussy watches voyeuristically from her swing above.

I dunno - I think I'd be laughing too hard to "perform" in such a room....

Everyone knows that aliens perform kinky body exams when they kidnap humans. Here, in the Alien Abduction Play Area, lovers can fiddle with the fake knobs, watch Star Wars, and reenact the pleasurable horrors of intergalactic seduction. Don't forget to take advantage of the breast padding on the platform for otherwordly experiments.

Huh.

You're in the midwest, right? Someone must have rifle around somewhere.

Ha. Chicago is one of the places where they try to discourage that sort of thing. At some point during the 3:30ish round the veryloudcar got a ticket and I didn't hear another round after 6am so either it was towed or the owner moved it.

My fantasies were ranging from HulkSmash! to imagining a Macgyver to drain the battery very quickly.

Laura, I used to have that same coffeemaker. It was fancy.

I don't suppose under the circumstances that any of the neighbors would have narced, had you taken a tire iron to strategic portions of the offending car.

My fantasies were ranging from HulkSmash! to imagining a Macgyver to drain the battery very quickly.

OK, here's a plan:

They have this stuff that used for insulating the insides of walls. It consists of two chemicals - when you mix them together it turns into rapidly expaning foam, which then hardens. All you do is buy a cheap car cover and put it on the offending car. Then mix up the chemicals, pour it through a hole in the top of the cover, seal up the hole and wait. Soon the car will be cocooned in hard, sound-absorbing foam.

Awsome. If only Clark-Devon hardware were open between midnight and 3am.

Matt Damon does Matthew McConaughey. (Impression)

I totally read this and went "OOH!" and then saw the "(Impression)" and was all disappointed. But it was really funny anyway! Huh.

Hey, in a world where Miss USA is making out in clubs with Miss Teen USA, you never know!

Now there's a story I need more details on. WHY were they hanging out together? Were they making out in that "sorority girls attracting the straight boys" way, or are they actually like, hot for each other? WTF??

Sherlock Holmes Vs. Cthulhu!

James Bond Vs. Cthulhu