Hatebeak was a death metal band, formed by Blake Harrison, Mark Sloan, and Waldo, a 21-year-old Congo African Grey Parrot.
Their sound has been described as “a jackhammer being ground in a compactor”.[4] Aquarius Records magazine called Hatebeak “furious and blasting death metal”.
With such singles as “Bird Seeds of Vengeance” and “The Thing That Should Not Beak”, how did this band ever fail to go platinum?
Via Wikipedia.
We were unprepared for the sheer scale of the spider population and the extraordinary masses of both three dimensional and sheet-like webbing that blanketed much of the facility’s cavernous interior. Far greater in magnitude than any previously recorded aggregation of orb-weavers, the visual impact of the spectacle was nothing less than astonishing.
In places where the plant workers had swept aside the webbing to access equipment, the silk lay piled on the floor in rope-like clumps as thick as a fire hose.
Four acres of web found in 2009 at the Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant consisting of 107 million orb-weaver spiders of different species.
I am sensing a Spider-Man reboot based on this…
Photos by the Entomological Society of America.
Study authors Greene, Albert; Coddington, Jonathan A.; Breisch, Nancy L.; De Roche, Dana M.; Pagac, Benedict B. in American Entomologist, Volume 56, Number 3, Fall 2010 via ingentaconnect via Huffington Post, where you can see additional photos and information.
Growing up in São Paulo in the 1990s, explosions were often my weekend alarm clock.
The strange succession of bursts and explosions, we knew, could only mean one thing: balloons.
The alarm clocks were easy to spot: balloons carrying enormous racks full of hundreds of fireworks of all sorts. They left huge trails of smoke in the sky, continuing their pyrotechnic displays sometimes for half an hour.
But it was not all explosions. Some balloons bore long paper banners with intricate designs ranging from abstract patterns to the likeness of musicians and celebrities, someone’s girlfriend or mother, or, on many occasions, Jesus Christ.
[T]he most beautiful were the ones that carried light panels: nets of candlelit paper lanterns in a multitude of colors, precisely arranged to form a drawing lit by fire in the night sky.
Some carried hundreds of kite-like paper gliders (released by a fuse) which would slowly flutter down all over a neighborhood.
These balloons are big. Big enough to carry people – but they don’t.
They’re not about transportation, but rather expressions of art. Paper balloons lifted by simple torches have been a part of Brazilian culture for centuries.
In the beginning they were small, only feet high, and often launched in conjunction with festivals celebrating the holy days of various Catholic saints known as festas juninas, or “June Festivals” (remember that Brazil, being in the Southern Hemisphere, is in winter in June).
Today, they’re more secular, even involving uniformed teams all working together to make bigger, better, more dramatic balloons to show off their creators’ skill.
In the 1990s, concerns about fire danger made launching and manufacturing of these balloons as federal crimes punishable by prison time, something that is still the case today.
Authorities continue to try to stamp out the interest and passion for the great balloons, but the renegade balloonists will not be stopped…and the balloons will fly.
Via The Appendix.
The owner of the cars was a car dealer in the 1970s and 1980s, and decided to save the more interesting cars that came through his doors.
When the barn was full, he padlocked and soldered the doors shut.
I’m not particularly a car guy, but it seems if one was going to go to the trouble of accumulating a collection like that, you’d occasionally dust them.
Via Examiner and Snopes. Photographs by Manuel Menezes Morais.
A partial list of cars in the photos can be found at Sports Car Market.
Harrison Williams, from Mindarie, near Perth in Western Australia, swam to the body of [a] deceased humpback whale and [sat] on it.
Despite several tiger sharks and at least one white shark circling the whale’s bloated carcass, Williams, an extreme sport lover, made the perilous swim over. Williams said “Basically the whale looked in distress and I tried to help it. But clearly I was too late.”
The whale has reportedly been in the ocean for several weeks, floating between Rottnest and Fremantle off the Western Australia coast.
And now, what you’ve all been waiting for…this year’s Crazy Motherfucker Cup is – as usual – awarded to an Australian.
Via Mail Online.
A mayor in the [town of Vendargues in the] south of France has banned clown disguises for a month, starting on Halloween, after several violent incidents involving teenagers dressed as clowns.
This month French police have arrested more than a dozen teenagers dressed as clowns with weapons, who were frightening passers-by or in some cases beating people up.
What the mayor of Vendargues hasn’t realized yet is that…those aren’t costumes.
Via BBC.
The Arkansas woman, who’s name has not been released, went to her gynecologist complaining that her discharge had a “very bad odor”. [T]he results of the pap smear were not human. During the exam, the doctor inserted his speculum, and scooped out a large piece of loose, decaying flesh.
The woman finally confessed. After her husband’s recent hunting trip, he brought home a deer and gutted and dressed it in their garage. She admitted to seeing the tongue, admired its length, and had snuck off with it to use it as a pleasuring aid.
She didn’t remember leaving it up there.
Wait…didn’t remember? Come on, people, necrophilia is no excuse for lack of basic hygiene.
Via Daily Buzz.