The Travel Channel’s “Cash and Treasures” filmed on the Davenport coastline on July 16. The show will focus on a search for sea glass—often old bottles or bits of window...
A day after President George W. Bush verbally lifted a ban on offshore drilling for oil, a move largely symbolic unless Congress lifts the legal ban, some Congressional representatives including...
On Independence Day, a monitor and keyboard, newly replaced from a recent office fire, were stolen from the Santa Cruz SPCA shelter on Chanticleer Avenue, along with a 12-week-old St....
I don't know about anyone else, but the hands-free cell phone law still has me flummoxed. My car trips have felt so much less productive since I can no longer make phone calls (saving up for that Bluetooth). Amusingly, I've noticed that, in order to avoid a ticket, more people are attempting to text message with their phone on their lap. Even more amusingly, Skyler Stone has discovered that the law can lead to more productivity, not less.
When most people sing along to the classic Danny Elfman Batman theme song, they go something like, "Buh nuh nuh nah nah!" Andrew Goldenberg goes three steps further. He wrote lyrics, bought costumes, and filmed himself performing a brilliant narrative of this and other classic blockbuster scores. While the "Indiana Jones" one is fairly awesome (I always just sang "Indiana! Jo-ho-hones! Indiana! India-na-Jones!"), it's National Batman Day, so here you go:
Men are often told that women like confidence. This fella here, Dmitri, took this advice so much to heart, that he decided to leave two of the most outrageously forward voice mails on the machine of a young woman named Olga. According to the story, Olga had spoken to Dmitri for two minutes, then handed him a business card. Watch, and learn.
And herein lies the crisis of conscience: you love sushi, but you’re absolutely devoted to sustainable seafood. For those of you brave enough to grill the serious sushi chef with the big knife in his hand on the origins of his maki-bound salmon and ahi tuna, you’re my hero. But for the rest of us, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program just may save us an uncomfortable conversation. Together with the Blue Ocean Institute , Seafood Watch is developing the “first-ever sushi pocket guide.” But, they need your help. Seafood Watch is currently seeking information about your favorite sushi restaurant. Follow this link to fill out the Seafood Watch Program’s market research survey.
Everyone who submits a survey by Monday, July 14 is eligible to win a prize.
It was not until her lunch break, at midday when she felt a strange movement inside her bra, which had been hanging on her washing line the previous night.
"I plucked up the courage to investigate and I pulled out a little baby bat. I just lost my breath when I saw it and I did not know what it was at first," she said.
The teenager's general manager freed the bat in the hotel garden.
Possible punch lines:
1) Victoria's Secret has sued over infringement of their WonderBat design.
2) Her younger sister had a similar incident a few days later with a robin.
3) Ever since the incident, her breasts are allergic to garlic.
The internet is a godsend for research. Not, as many college professors will attest, because of its accuracy. And in terms of depth, you're more likely to find the minutiae of a minor X-Men villain online than something original and meaningful about Friedrich Nietzsche. But where else could a lesson on the basic rules of cricket given by Vincent Price be at your beck and call?
Matt Harding, a 31-year-old from Connecticut who got tired of making video games, decided instead to take the money he'd made and travel the world. Along the way, he filmed himself doing a little dance in every location. The end result is even more astounding than you'd think, as people from everywhere join Matt in his little jig, and I mean everywhere.
A gum company found out about what he was doing and gave him money to continue. Here's the latest version, five minutes of pure joy.
An article at Yahoo! Sports blames the slow economy for NASCAR events drawing 100,000 fans instead of 130,000 fans. (I'll give everyone a moment to dry their tears.) The best part is a quote from stock car legend Richard Petty:
“Fuel, that’s the reason,” seven-time Cup champion Richard Petty said last weekend at MIS. To illustrate his point, Petty bent down, picked up a five-gallon fuel container, hoisted it into the air and pointed at it. “No matter whether you have a car or not, the gas prices are hurting you; the diesel prices are hurting you,” Petty said. “Everything (costs) is being passed on. It’s inflating everything by the one thing, which is the fuel. Sure it bothers me, but more on an everyday deal, where they’re doing things like running the food prices up because the fuel prices are up, too.”
Who this 'they' might be -- accomplishing the dastardly task of raising food prices just 'cause gas costs twice as much as it did two years ago -- is left to the imagination. (Maybe the current administration can track them down and surge them?)
The article ends with a note that in the 1970s, during the OPEC embargo, NASCAR shortened some of its races by ten percent, so that the stock cars that only get 4.5 miles per gallon drove around in circles for just 450 miles instead of 500. No word on if 'they' also lowered the ticket prices accordingly.
On July 29, the world will get a gander at the sequel to The Lost Boys, subtitled "The Tribe." Yes, both Coreys are in it. And no, it obviously didn't film in Santa Cruz again. (Malibu? How could they?)
I'm just hoping to see what sweaty saxophone guy looks like after all these years.
Here's a four-minute short film about a little-known farming practice that makes the world what it is today. Can you imagine if this crop disappeared, what our day-to-day life would be like? Better? Worse?
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