Tommy, not 22lb but 22kg! Poor man. Such misery.

Nah. Previously it was 23 kg, but a lot of that was removed last year. It looks like the pictures are all after that surgery and show him with the current 10kg tumor.

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Or perhaps I still haven't gotten over reading the description of Two Girls One Cup, and nothing else can seem scarifying in light of that.

Over Christmas, I was in the car with Joe, my brother, his wife, and my dad. We were talking about some serial killer who had a fetish for videotaping women while going to the bathroom. My brother then started to say, "You know....never mind, I'm not even going to go there."

I asked him, "Two Girls, One Cup?"

"Yep."

See, even though I was scared for life just reading about that link, now I'm extra hip with my totally connected little brother.

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Ok. I need some help. My friend announces the Dead Man of the Year on his blog every year. He says

I'm not sure if you read this year's DMOTY yet, but Hartnell was one of the runners-up. Damn it all, though... I still haven't had a woman DMOTY. I've had runners up that were women, but no winners. I figure if I just MAKE it a woman simply due to gender that's as bad as insisting that it be a man, so I try to be fair with each award. We'll see.

I said

Now, here's the part where I get slightly preachy. I agree that having a woman just because she's a woman is redic. However, it wouldn't be *just* because she's a woman. Obviously there was something that made her a runner up-so it wouldn't be based on gender alone. Secondly, I think there are some inherent biases that prevent you (or me, for that matter) from being completely objective. You're going to recognize and relate to characterisics in a man more readily and easily than you would a woman. Maybe try to make one of your female runners up DMOTY and see if she doesn't stack up.

He says

Maybe in most men, but not me. There were runners up that were female the past two years. The thing is that I had to recognize the person fairly. It's not as if I shunned the women in any way. I think if you look at the Runners Up for 2006 and 2007 you'll see a lot of quality commemoration on them. However, for example, to me the biggest splash in entertainment of 2006 was in relation to Superheroes. Superman was the first superhero, and he was all over entertainment in 2006, he was created by two men. I honored them both. 2005 was linked heavily to King Kong. It was an unlikely candidate, but Obie won (pun intended). There may have been influences over 2007's world of entertainment that were more noteworthy than Phil Hartman's by women, but not any that were actually Dead, which, by definiton, is a requirement.

I want to fight back with examples, but I'm blanking.

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OK, remind me why I'm not talking politics. Because I just saw something that makes me want to scream and rant about how I just don't UNDERSTAND why other people aren't seeing what I'm seeing in the candidates, and this way leads to tears and fights and raised blood pressure. But it's so hard to keep my mouth shut! It's too important! I want to change minds!

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DJ, I can't think of any.

Hell, I can't even think of lunch. Greek? Can I make it that far?

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Really? No dead women that had an influence on the arts in 2007?

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They don't have to have died in 2007, but they have to be dead and have had an influence on 2007 arts.

i.e.

Name: William Hartnell (January 08, 1908 - April 23, 1975)

2007 Influence: William Henry Hartnell was the first actor to play "The Doctor" on the longest running Science Fiction Television show in History: Doctor Who!

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Well, here's an odd body mod.

eeeewwww! and owwww! I knew better than to click on that.

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Did gmail just implode for anyone? Else?

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