Fools in Love in Michigan

No I'm not talking about Sudha, but I am talking about a crazy girl who is up there with her! In keeping with the MySpace crazies, here's a great story. Now we may all have different opinions on this, but I think she's nuts. Kudos to the U.S. government officials for recognizing this girl's craziness in the Jordan airport and sending her home before she could get to Tel Aviv. What am I talking about you ask? Katherine Lester met a 20-year old high school dropout who lived with his parents in Tel Aviv on MySpace. She ran away from home and was en route to Tel Aviv to marry this guy and convert to Islam. Is this romantic? The stuff romance novels are made of? Or is this just nuts? Read the article here. The best is the title of this aol.com article: "MySpace Runaway May Lose Passport" Yeah. Like this is the biggest problem this girl has.

Naked, Cuffed Suspect Flees From Hospital

Haha... people are resourceful when on the run...
Mostly I just love this opening paragraph-- catchy and dramatic at the same time! I also highlighted the truly ridiculous parts to this story.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (June 13) - A burglary suspect was charged with a string of crimes after bolting from a hospital, naked, handcuffed and with blood spurting from a stab wound in his chest.

A deputy had removed Rashon Delee's leg shackles so he could use the toilet at Crouse Hospital when he decided to make his run Sunday afternoon, said Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh.

Delee ripped out an intravenous drip, monitors and a chest tube, threw his hospital gown in a deputy's face and ran from the hospital.

He sprinted down five flights of stairs to escape and managed to slip out of one handcuff while running, possibly because the lubrication from sweat and blood helped him slip it off, Walsh said. (I wonder if this is a scientific opinion?)

Delee eluded authorities for three hours, two of which he spent in a trash bin behind a restaurant on the Syracuse University campus, before he was caught. (Can you imagine seeing this after coming out of your college cafeteria?)

Walsh said department investigators are reviewing whether the deputy, a two-year veteran, acted appropriately.

Delee, 21, was taken to the hospital after being stabbed by his former girlfriend when he broke into her apartment. (You go girl!!)

He faces felony counts of burglary, criminal contempt and escape, as well as misdemeanor counts of harassment, criminal contempt, criminal trespass, petit larceny and resisting arrest.

Yo Sushi!

This is a picture of Yo Sushi! in the Paddington train station in London. It is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. You go and sit at a stool and watch as plates of sushi go by you on a conveyor belt on the counter. Each plate is a different color that corresponds with different prices. Green plates cost £1.50, purple cost £2.00, orange cost £2.50 and so on up till the pink plates that cost £5.00. (Yeah, I wrote those out just so I could use the £ sign on this keyboard). When you're done, they calculate your plates and you're on your way to the train. You can always order what you want, but there are tons of choices on the conveyor belt. Spicy tuna and salmon sashimi already ready and floating around a conveyor belt? Genius... Do we have things like this in the States??

Who is this man?

oh my... still stumped? Take a moment, and look hard. Ashton's Kutcher's brother maybe? Yeah, there's no way you're gonna figure this one out. It's the infamous K-Fed, aka Mr. Spears, aka Kevin Federline. Who would have thought that the man could clean up so well. I haven't a clue what he's up to these days other than trying to promote his "music" But the phrase you can't change a leopard's spots comes to mind when I look at this picture. I'm sure he's still the lazy bum that he's always been. I really don't have much to say on this issue other than I thought it was amazing what a little soap, water, and a razor can do for a man like K-Fed.

Another one bites the dust

Iraq's number two man has been killed. So I know what you're already saying, which number two is this? Doesn't it seem like we're always killing off the number two man? But this one was a biggie according to the terrorist playing cards issued to our military guys over there (brilliant strategy I have to say-- give the soldiers cards which they will probably use during all their downtime, and now they'll be able to recognize these people even better when on patrol). His bounty was raised to $25 million, which is the same as Osama. So what's the significance of this? I'm not entirely sure in the grand scheme of things, but you gotta figure that the guy his supporters called "the slaughtering sheik" won't be terribly missed on this Earth. So we're one step closer, but then again those of you familiar with these kinds of social climates, another person will only take his place tomorrow. Hence the search for the new number two man. But honestly, we can only hope that the new man is less evil than Al-Zarqawi and hope that eventually the new number two will have some common sense and even a soul.

Update: So I just talked to Lee a few hours after this post. He's in the airport on his way to Kuwait and just informed me that Al-Zarqawi was from Mozul, Iraq. As that is where Lee is going to be in 30 days for potentially the next two years, I see this is as huge plus that this idiot is no longer terrorizing that city. So yes, I do think in this case it does matter that this one man is gone. It matters a lot to me because after this point the war is no longer a political debate to have over my morning coffee, but it's about the safety of Lee and all my other friends over there. Good riddance and keep up the good work!

We have better wines!

In the spirit of becoming a mature young adult, I have taken an interest in wine tasting. These days I know all about reds vs. whites, stelvin screw top closures vs. corks, Robert Parker and his fabulous point system, cork taint, and cleansing the palette. I also know though that California wines are out-performing French wines in blind taste tests. The most famous blind tasting occured 30 years ago and is known as the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976. The same bottles from that year were re-tasted this year in a replication of the event. The concept was to see how well the wines had aged over 30 years; California still came out on top!

So break out your cheese trays and head to your nearest wine store and uncork a bottle of the number one red from that historic event, the Cabernert Sauvignon from California's Stag's Leap Wine Cellars produced by winemaker Warren Winiarski. There now, don't you already feel more sophisticated... ?