Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Thanks to MisterV for sending me this ad from today's Boston Globe for Kleenex. If you can't read it in the picture, it reads, “sixty seconds of anticipation plus two soft favorites equals one brave little big girl”, and at the bottom it calls this a “grown up moment”.

Not only is an old-style piercing gun shown (which even the piercing gun industry at this point largely accepts is dangerous), but it's being used without gloves or anything… You ever get the feeling that people are just getting stupider and stupider, or that society is stratifying into a small number that are “with it” and a giant number that are “extremely not with it”?

Still chugging along on the update. I'll probably post it in about 10 hours or so. Big thanks to folks like luvpain99 (and many others) for all the wonderful pictures.

I wanted to mention this story brought to me by KannibalTheCat… It's not really body modification related per se — it's about assissted suicide. As I see it, clear-headed suicide is probably the single-most radical statement on “absolute personal ownership of the body” a person can make (whether you agree with it or not), so I follow the subject. Anyway, next week Hell on Earth will be doing a live webcast (assuming they aren't stopped) of a suicide (terminally ill, before you ask) as an art statement.

Other than that I ordered some CDs for BME/RADIO… With any luck we'll start doing some broadcast tests in this upcoming week. Watch here for details (once it gets rolling for real there will be a schedule on the main site that's always updated).

PS. One thing that weirded me out when I was in Hawaii recently is that long hair gets you instinctually called “Ma'am” pretty regularly. I don't think I've had that happen to me since 1987 here!