I must add a new category titled “Bizarro,” where I document the unusual things I always end up discovering. I don’t know how exactly I come to discover them, but I always do. Where is Freud when you need him?

Over at Naked Air, there are pictures of a flight that headed in 2003 towards Mexico, where the passengers were stark naked –every one of them. Don’t click the link unless you are SURE you like seeing naked, saggy, disproportionate middle-aged men and women proudly parading their goods in the plane’s aisles.

I wonder what sort of food they served on that plane.

And then, did you know that Isabella Rossellini featured in several short movies called Green Porno where she acted as a male insect and well, acted out the ways of a bug’s sex life? Ew.

What is this world coming to, I ask you!

I shall say no more.

I missed Beowulf at the movies, so in a trip to the DVD store I found it there and bought it some four weeks ago. When I got home, I discovered that I did not buy the correct Beowulf movie. I had purchased a movie called Beowulf and Grendel instead. But no problem, I thought, I will watch it anyway.

Beowulf and Grendel was released in 2006, as I later found out when I googled it. The scenery and cinematography were breathtaking but everything else was mediocre for lack of a stronger word. The minute I pressed Play I was lost. I could not understand the story, at all! Thankfully, I know the myth of the hero Beowulf and so knew what to expect, but even that did not really help much. The plot was jumbled, the dialogue unintelligible, and the order of events really, really, illogical. I could not follow.

But of course, I had to challenge myself and force her to watch for some time. I figured maybe things will get better and I will start understanding them. I reminded myself of the time I was reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, when I forced myself time and again to read through the first quarter of the book, denying that I just could not grasp what was going on, only to curse the book and discard it later. I distinctly remember that the following day, upon telling my wise Italian professor about this my ordeal, he smiled and said: “la vita è troppo corta per un libro brutto” — life is too short to waste on a bad book.

Likewise, I eventually gave up on Beowulf and Grendel.

Later on, I got Beowulf, the 2007 production featuring the genius Sir Anthony Hopkins. The movie was loads better than Beowulf and Grendel, I enjoyed it but I expected it to be more profound. Events picked up very quickly after Beowulf slaughtered Grendel, and his relationship with Grendel’s mother was not altogether clear until the end of the movie. The animation was brilliant, but I would have preferred the movie to be un-animated and played out by the actual actors (especially Hopkins).

All in all, Beowulf did not meet my expectations. If I were to rate it, I would give it a 6.5/10, and I am being generous because Hopkins was in it. Hello, Clarice.

You know you can never win when you’re competing against a cat in gracefulness over snow.

Cat walk:

Tololy walk:

And today’s snow forecast:

Why waste my time and risk catching pneumonia making a huge, beer-belly snowman?

I made the smallest, cutest snow babe instead:

The picture should reveal how small she is compared to the environment. She is resting on the roof ledge, enjoying the weather and saying hello to the kids in the street. She has a black heart though. Go figure!

Awww… The weather people were right this time. I am so happy for them. They have finally saved face.

(Wearing my Dad’s worn-out snow sneakers although they’re at least eight sizes bigger than my feet)

I use Havana Brown as my snow measurement tool. Compare if you like.

I don’t know whether to be amused or petrified. Presidential candidate Huckabee endorsed a Christian video-sharing community called GodTube, with the disturbing motto of “Broadcast Him.”

Not Him from The Powerpuff Girls cartoon! No, not the devilish transvestite whose name is so awful it cannot be said. Him, as in either god or Huckabee. The parallel is disturbing on so many different levels. Off GodTube, here is a video titled Letter from Hell:

With all due respect to all the believers out there, I am at loss for words. Except maybe this blasphemous question: how do you put god in a tube?

Here’s a bit of interesting news:

LONDON (Reuters) - A British bus company has apologized to a girl who is led around on a leash by her boyfriend and describes herself as a human pet after one of its drivers threw her off a bus.

Tasha Maltby, 19, told British newspapers she was the “pet” of her 25-year-old fiance Dani Graves.

Pictures showed her dressed in black Gothic-style clothing with silver buckles on a silver chain — which the driver of a bus from the firm Arriva took exception to.

She told the Daily Mail newspaper Wednesday she was thrown off and told: “We don’t let freaks and dogs like you on.”

Now that in certain parts of the world there are laws protecting the rights of LGTB communities, and more are struggling to be added to the list (think zoophiles, perhaps even people who are into BDSM), where should the law draw the line?

Who gets to decide what is acceptable and what is not? Obviously, law-making has many variables; lobbying, sentiments of people at the time, etc. What was once taboo is now legal because of this, and viceversa. Perhaps by this logic we can say that right and wrong are also variables. They change.

So where do you think the law should draw the line? Should people on leashes be allowed on buses? Should people-animal lovers be allowed to dine in the same restaurants as the rest of the normal “us”? Gay people are already allowed most of the freedoms we enjoy, so why not these other communities?

What do you think?

I go to work wearing my black and white AirWalk sneakers most of the time. It doesn’t matter what clothes I’m wearing, I usually ruin my whole “look” with the sneakers. But I don’t mind, because they’re comfortable and they make me feel like I am walking on clouds.

I like “not feeling” my feet when I walk. High heels usually make you aware of your feet, aware of your step, and they put you on a heightened level of sensitivity and balance. Not only that, they make everyone around aware of the fact that you are approaching. I think this “anticipation of the arrival of a woman” is part of why high heels are sexy. Add to that; they make you walk a certain way, add to your height, and might improve your posture (temporarily before killing it 30 years later).

I love high heels but I always feel they slow me down. When I need to go somewhere where I just have to sit down most of the time, I wear heels. Everywhere else, sneakers.

When ballerina flats became popular, I was delivered. I could wear something flat, unheely, and comfortable. It didn’t slow me down but it looked great and did not cramp my style. I must confess though, I have not bought flats for a long time and have relied solely on my B&W sneakers. However, today I bought this cute black patent leather pair from NEXT, they were on uber-sale:

And while I’m on the subject of shoes and heels, I came across an eerie, “classy shoe fetish” site that manufactures punitive shoes and sells them for pretty high prices. Check these out:

I don’t need research to tell me these will kill my back. They don’t even look healthy…punitive indeed!

House work is evil, it must be stopped.

If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.

I child-proofed my house but they still get in.

A clean house is a sign of a wasted life.

They lied. Hard work has killed lots of people.

Amen to all of that.

Domestically Challenged,

Tololy

P.S: You can buy the five-piece set from BlueQ.