Elizabeth and Arthur discuss the Infinite…

Elizabeth: Arthur dearest… Valentino said “I have never, ever been, wrong”..

Arthur: Liz look…Einstein said there are dual versions of The Infinite – the Universe and Human Stupidity….

by Arden + aniie +… lost interest remora

how do you treat usagi-phobia?…Leporiphobia

good question countered Arthur…

* “I’ve always loved to see the furry little buggers pop down a hole” – Noel Coward

* “Jesus, look at the size of that bastard!!!” – Oscar Wilde

* “I’ve seen bigger” remarked Jesus

http://www.slate.com/id/2261247

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Leporiphobia

by The Punjapit Alliance

The Dirtiest Man in China

The success of cross-dressing comedian Little Shenyang shows that sexual humor is coming out of the closet. Is China ready for raunch?

 

Comedy is on the rise in China, and one of its unlikeliest stars is a cross-dressing performer known as Xiao Shenyang, or “Little Shenyang.” Born in hardscrabble northeast China, the 29-year-old comedian has a reputation for gender-bending costumes (sparkly hair bows, women’s blouses, a sports bra) and occasional vulgarity. That made his debut on the national stage all the more remarkable. Little Shenyang appeared in last year’s Lunar New Year gala show organized by state-run CCTV, a yearly holiday ritual that typically tops the charts for TV viewership. While his jokes were scrubbed clean of sexual innuendo that night, the fresh-faced youth did wear a skirt—calling it a “Scottish kilt.” After he said something perceived as effeminate, another comedian, Zhao Benshan, called him a Chinese name that means either “ass kisser” or “ass demon”—derogatory slang for homosexual. The audience roared with laughter. (Later Zhao, who is Little Shenyang’s mentor and China’s most popular TV star, denied any homosexual connotations. “How do I know what words gay people use? I don’t associate with them,” he told NEWSWEEK.) Little Shenyang was an instant hit with the show’s 600 million–strong audience, prompting so many Netizens to Google his name that his hits temporarily exceeded those for Mao Zedong and Jesus Christ combined.

http://www.fonella.net/n278526c26.aspx

by the Punjapit Alliance

Abyss LED Digital Watch

We’ve seen many unusual watches before, and here’s another LED watch that borders on being weird. It doesn’t have any noticeable hands; rather it sports a single ring of LEDs around the circumference of its face, with the dots supposedly good enough to indicate the hours and the minutes (somehow).

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2010/07/abyss_led_digital_watch.html

by The Punjapit Alliance

Beer of the Month: Shipyard Brewing Old Thumper

Shipyard Brewing Old Thumper

Shipyard describes this as a nontraditional English bitter ale. It’s closest to the extra special bitter, or ESB, style, which is bigger and hoppier than the usual English bitter. (Of course, neither is anywhere near as hoppy as a West Coast India pale ale, because nothing is.)

One thing that might make Old Thumper nontraditional is the inclusion of some roasted malts, which gives a fleeting suggestion of a darker beer. Because Shipyard has been making this beer for more than 15 years, though, by American standards it is a tradition.

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-bom-20100729,0,5195512.story

by Arthur & Friday Night Cardies

Haamonii Shochu from Japan like dieting

Make that Haamonii Shochu…. on the rocks

Haamonii Shochu, a relatively new Japanese liquor entry to the American spirits market.

Shochu, made of grains and starch, is the world’s third most popular spirits by volume sold, following the leader, baijiu, a white distilled Chinese spirit typically made of sorghum, and vodka, according to a recently published review of the global spirits market by IWSR (International Wine and Spirits Record) in London. Some shochu brands can taste harsh, but Haamonii (which means harmony in Japanese) is clear and vodka-like. Attention bathing-suit-wearing calorie counters: Haamonii has an alcohol content of 22 percent (about half that of vodka) and 75 calories in a 2-ounce serving, compared with up to 120 calories for the same amount of vodka.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/28/SBKM1ED5IQ.DTL

Artifice, Brutality and Innocence

oh these troubled,troubled,.. stupid times

posted by Elizabeth + aniie + Arden

It’s Happy Hour Time….

The only way to be truly prepared for every alcoholic emergency is to always carry a bottle opener with you, but this is, of course, impractical and easy to forget. So what about building an opener into something that you do always carry with you? That’s exactly what the Happy Hour Watch is for.

The quartz timepiece has a bottle opener in the buckle, keeping spraying beer away from the watch itself, which is fashioned from alloy with a stainless-steel back. The watch has two faces, one LCD and the other with traditional hands, and only marked with one hour (beer O’clock).

This only takes care of beer bottles (and if you have two bottles of beer, you have a beer opener anyway), so it’s more suited to tailgating than to romantic picnics. On the other hand, you should be buying screw-top wine anyway: no cork-taint and no corkscrew required.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/its-beer-oclock-watch-has-built-in-bottle-opener/

by the Punjapit Alliance

First Chelsea get an Italian manager, now they go for Italian suits

Frank’s back….. & in style.

Chelsea’s latest signing should see the club’s stock soar, at least sartorially. The English champions have struck a deal with the Italian label Dolce & Gabbana to design official club suits and off-duty outfits for the players, along with suits for the coach and his staff. They have also redesigned an opulent space inside the stadium, calling it the “Dolce & Gabbana lounge”.

But it is by no means the first time that the Italian label has worked with the football world. Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana created the suits for the Italian national team at the last two World Cups and they also outfit the AC Milan team, but this is the first time they have designed clothes for a British club. It’s not only the label’s history of working with sportsmen that makes this new partnership seem like a natural fit, however. Dolce & Gabbana’s aesthetic is an unashamedly masculine one.

 Their clothes are for men who know they’ve got it and want to flaunt it – in other words, footballers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/first-chelsea-get-an-italian-manager-now-they-go-for-italian-suits-2036912.html

by A + E

Peter Speake-Marin: creating something people want!

Once leaders in the field of watchmaking, England slowly became a land of shopkeepers,teachers & jobsworths (goldbricking government layabouts to our N.American readers) selling imported timepieces. And so it remains more or less today. However, Peter Speake-Marin, an Englishman by birth but now settled in Rolle, Switzerland, is discreetly doing his best from his attic workshop to show that the Sceptred Isle is still capable of producing a precious talent.

Peter Speake-Marin (pronounced Speak-Marine) was born in England in 1968. “I went to a technical school with the intention of making jewellery, but discovered art and mechanics which included watchmaking. I loved it, somehow it spoke to me. It had everything that I enjoy doing and the aspect of watchmaking appealed to me since you can do it anywhere.
“So I came to Switzerland in 1987 to study at the WOSTEP School in Neuchâtel where I specialized in wristwatches. Having completed the course I returned to the UK and joined the after-sales department of Watches of Switzerland, firstly in Oxford and then in London – both for six months – then went to work for Somlo Antiques in the Piccadilly Arcade in London’s West End.”

http://www.europastar.com/magazine/features/1002197169-speake-marin-creating-something.html

by remora