| | Daily Discussions on el diablo sturgis chopper| Background Checks on Sitters | | This weekend we had a scare with our children which resulted in the sitter being dismissed. Now we are currently wondering how does one politely ask those seeking sitting employment with us to provide a background check? Has anyone ever had to deal with this before? What are your sitter stories? Not that I want to be completely negative during the holidays, I am still full of anxiety over the fact I had to call the police. Namaste-
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| | Somebody wanna tell me what is wrong with this picture? | | The below link is video footage of part of Lady Bird Johnson's funeral (from CNN). It's only about a minute long. Watch it and tell me if you find anything about it that sends a shiver up your spine and/or puts a gross feeling in the pit of your stomach. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2007/07/14/vo.johnson.funeral.cnnWhat's wrong with this picture?! | |
| | | Found this story on the net at sdcitybeat.com and wonder what you think of it!? | | Local computer tech wants to be a tiger
by Catherine Tapia
A few words included in the online portfolio of Steve Haworth, a Phoenix-based “3-D body modification artist,” perhaps best sum up the worldview of individuals who undergo procedures mainstream society has deemed aberrant and, in some cases, dangerous: “… one person’s idea of body modification is going to be a pierced ear lobe, and another person’s idea of body modification is to look like the el diablo himself. Just because you don’t agree doesn’t make it wrong.”
Haworth (whose website declares “has been labeled the father of modern body modification”) is one of the main people credited for assisting a San Diego area electronics and computer technician in transforming himself into his “totem animal,” a tiger.
Dennis “Stalking Cat” Avner (“Cat” for short), a resident of the small, high-desert town of Guatay, is not one to shy away from the subject of what he considers frequent exploitation of his startlingly feline appearance by journalists—especially of the tabloid genre.
“The media is, for the most part, the lowest form of life on the planet,” he told one reporter approaching him for the first time. “I’ve had... | |
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