A day or so ago, my local news said something about a volcano erupting, but I didn't stay until after the commercial to get the full story. Added an apocalyptic tinge to the evening.

That reminds me. I was talking to my cousin in N.O. the other day, and she said one of her friends observed, "Y'know we never had tornadoes until we moved all these trailers down here."

She also said she'd spent the two weeks before carnival season throwing beads at her son's face so he wouldn't be scared.

It was probably Stomboli, -t.

West Coast looks safe to me.

::ignore that temblor behind the curtain::

Also the LANDSLIDES.

She also said she'd spent the two weeks before carnival season throwing beads at her son's face so he wouldn't be scared.

Oh, my.

Does that mean I get half a toaster?

You might get the whole thing, because Julie stopped coming around these parts a long time ago.

(And just because it's been bothering me since I realized what I did, I wrote 'b.org' but I meant WXing.)

She didn't hit him or anything. Just training.

It was probably Stomboli, -t.

Is it Stomboli, or Stromboli, Sue? I've only heard about it on Keith Olbermann, and he went off on a "Yummmm, hot stromboli with red sauce..." tangent after seeing the video of the lava flowing down the mountain.

We'll, we're expecting highs in the 50s this weekend in Utah.

IE, we've had that storm, it's all yours.

Okay, I missed seeing the FNL: before DJ's

When Tyra was

And fully expected the whitefont to follow to be about Top Model.They started with a

bootcamp bit at the beginning and I was thinking I missed a part where Tyra lambasted one of the girls!

Haha! Did anyone watch Top Model??? We were sad

that dumb as verrrry dumb mud Kathleen was cut. She was hilarious.

A man who was found dressed in latex and handcuffs brought a donkey to his room in a Galway city centre hotel, because he was advised “to get out and meet people,” the local court heard last week.

Thomas Aloysius McCarney with an address in south Galway was charged with cruelty to animals, lewd and obscene behaviour, and with being a danger to himself when he appeared before the court on Friday. He was also charged with damage to a mini-bar in the room, but this charge was later dropped when the defendant said that it was the donkey who caused that damage.

Solicitor for the accused Ms Sharon Fitzhenry said that her client had been through a difficult time lately and that his wife had left him and that his life had become increasingly lonely.

“Mr McCarney has been attending counselling at which he was told that he would be advised to get out and meet people and do interesting things. It was this advice that saw him book into the city centre hotel with a donkey,” she said. She added that Mr McCarney also suffered from a fixation with the Shrek movies and could constantly be heard at work talking to himself saying things like “Isn’t that right, Donkey?”

Supt John McBrearty told the court that Mr McCarney who had signed in as “ Mr Shrek” had told hotel staff that the donkey was a family pet and that this was believed by the hotel receptionist who the supt said was “young and hadn’t great English.”

Receptionist Irina Legova said that Mr McCarney had told her that the donkey was a breed of “super rabbit” which he was bringing to a pet fair in the city. The court was told that the donkey went berserk in the middle of the night and ran amok in the hotel corridor, forcing hotel staff to call the gardai.

McCarney was found in the room wearing a latex suit and handcuffs, the key to which the donkey is believed to have swallowed. He was removed to Mill St station after which it is said he was the subject of much mirth among the lads next door in The Galway Arms.

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