Bolce Bussiere will be turning 8 today, on 8/8/08, and there's a party at 8 p.m. in the cabanas on Seacliff State Beach. Fans of the lucky number take note....
The superintendent of Santa Cruz City Schools, Alan Pagano, has announced that he will retire effective January 1 of next year. Pagano has been the superintendent since 2002, and started...
The city of Santa Cruz is planning to clear Arroyo Seco Creek from Mission Street to Meder starting August 11, including the removal of 60 trees, a handful of which...
The bane of any journalist. Still, I'd pay a quarter if someone on Pacific Avenue made this part of their routine. It's just an old man jumping on eggs.
An award-winning student short about the dreams of a little kiwi bird. I find that it's best not to think too much about what the ending implies, and focus on the "hard work pays off in the end" lesson, but then, I'm a wuss. Others may want to embrace the bleak.
Remixing Sesame Street clips is the new LOLcat meme, and nobody's done it better than this guy, who apparently has more Bert & Ernie footage lying around the Children's Television Workshop. "I was a bit bored last week," he says. Ah, people with time on their hands...
Incredibly rare wild footage of the goblin shark, a deep-sea creature capable of protruding its jaw in order to snag a bite. The skin is pinkish because of its translucence. But my favorite factoid about the shark is that its liver occupies 25 percent of its mass, and nobody knows why.
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.
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.