Deforestation: Endangered Species

Medical update: due to the popularity of the Brazilian bikini wax and nether-region depilation, pthirus pubis - the pubic louse - is finding it hard to make a home. More on this endangered species. The Surgeon Bastard has suggested a good back, sack & crack wax for everyone. [Except Jay, who qualifies for conscientious objector status.]

Life: The Documentary

Beautiful new documentary on Discovery, if you have seen it. Would've made for nice weed viewing, back then. I would still turn the volume down and play music instead, the narrative is just annoying.

I actually had a sort of epiphany watching it. Much of it deals with reproduction, and the thing that really became clear to me for the first time is that all around me there are all kinds of species of life, from mammals and birds to fish and insects and plants, and pretty much every single one of them is getting more action than I am.

When a nature documentary makes you feel like a loser, it's probably time to turn the TV off and put on the silk shirt, gold necklace and aqua-velva.

Change Leopardon!

Evidently there was a Japanese version of Spiderman from the '70s. Of course, their Spiderman gets his own giant Transformer robot!

Before he was a Batasshole..

Self-important prick, but I love this scene from Empire of the Sun. Child actors should get 2 in the back of the head on their 13th birthday. In a universe comprised almost completely of empty space, what a shame to find there's about 6 feet too little of it.

Lovely

We had an inspection on the little house we wanted to buy. Turns out that termites have not suffered the slump in the real estate market that everyone else has, especially where this house is concerned. The inspector deemed it "major structural damage" and showed us a couple of spots where you could step on the floor and potentially open up a new access point to the crawlspace. We're dropping what we're willing to pay to ridiculously low levels - so low the owners probably (and maybe hopefully) won't take it. So we're back to square one. Or maybe two, since we've got a couple of other potential places identified.

The best part is that when we went out to look at the place again after the inspection, I was walking around the house and noticed a bunch of wasps on a window. Hmm, there are a lot of wasps on that window, I thought, just as one stung me RIGHT ON THE FUCKING FOREHEAD. So that evening and the whole next day, I was uncomfortable and had a little bit of a headache, but no big deal. Until around 8pm when I looked in the mirror and noticed that my forehead was swelling around the sting spot. By around 8:45 it was starting to spread around my eyes. I iced it down and that seemed to help a little. I woke up yesterday morning and my whole face was puffy. I felt really crappy, so I did the walk-in to the Doctors office. Three hours and a steroid shot later, I walked out with a prescription for allergy medicine and slightly less discomfort.

All seems okay now. Not that you care.