The 1/2 Project, Bizarre Composite Face Portraits

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Praying mantises are so right they are blowing your minds.

I don't find there are more bees in the yard since I got the hive than there were before. Well, within a foot of the hive, yes, many bees, but outside of that I rarely see more than one or two at a time.

I was pretty old before I realized that freezing was not the only possible reaction to bees. I was never overly afraid of them, but somehow got convinced that I would accidentally flail into one's way, and that's when I would get stung. So, freeze.

I had several weird rules as a kid that I mostly just made up, although they were based on something. I just took them a little far.

Oh dear.

Couple's nude photo shoot inside their dead horse

After Elizabeth Herrick and her boyfriend "euthanized" their 32-year-old horse with a rifle, they gutted it and Herrick climbed inside its carcass for a nude photo session. Then they posted the photos online resulting in some, er, "extreme emotional reactions" and a police investigation. I'll skip posting the photos, but you can see them on HuffPo. If you really want to. You don't. Trust me.

The couple's explanation for the photos -- and later eating the animal? According to authorities at the department, the pair wanted to feel "one with the horse" and nature.

"This is definitely number one on the oddity list," (Washington County Sgt. Dave) Thompson said. "It's like nothing I've ever seen before."

According to the incident report obtained by The Huffington Post, detectives ruled no charges would be filed against the pair since nothing they did is technically illegal in the state of Oregon.

I have not followed the link to see the photos. So if you do, you're on your own.

eta: OK, I did look at the pictures. Not sexy at all.

A "zombie" bit two people in my town before they got fed up and threw him down the steps and hit him with a pipe wrench. Possibly not in that order. It's unclear.

Yeah, I don't know, either. Spice, apparently.

If you're going to eat an animal, that's fine but rolling around in it's fucking carcass is just sick shit. What is wrong with people?

What is wrong with people?

Maybe she really wanted to be a dog in elk?

Oh, dogs in elk. Gotta love 'em.

I slept in! Lovely to get up at 8--it was the first day in the last few weeks I didn't have to get up in order to be somewhere. So I went running up in the hills and had a great five-mile run.

My oldest friend is in town for the week to help set up a new office for her organization, but she's in meetings all day today, which is too bad. So I can read, or write, or go shopping. Can't decide.

Holli, Mr. Flowersocks sounds adorable. Go you!

I just got back from the massage and I feel totally stoned. Maybe one day I'll be rich so I can do that EVERY DAY.

Mr. Flowersocks made me all melty. That's a good guy, right there.

Mr. Flowersocks made me all melty. That's a good guy, right there.

Yep. That's really sweet, Holli. Sounds like he recognizes a quality woman.