7009 – The average smell weighs 760 nanograms

I’ve been scribbling a lot of abstract doodles lately… fun to do. I miss the coloringbook community in its prime.


In 1787 the Continental Congress of the Confederation commissioned the first penny. Designed by Ben Franklin, the front featured the sun rising over a sun dial. The word “Fugio,” Latin for “I fly,” sat next to the sundial, and the motto underneath, which admonished everyone to “Mind Your Business.”


The Sodium Party (part of this cool website)


Dan’s a fussy ol’ fart, and doesn’t want to see the Spongebob movie with me this weekend. If he can’t get together, I’ll go it alone this weekend, and run the risk of looking like a big stoner. No worries.


Useful Web Applications


Maybe I’ll hit the Broward County Fair this weekend, too.


I wonder how sedef, oneeyed, bq, and sa are doing lately?


‘Vampire’ Killer Found Dead in Jail Cell

A man jailed for murdering his best friend, drinking his blood and eating part of his head because he thought it granted him immortality was today found dead in his prison cell.

Alan Menzies, 23, from West Lothian, who bludgeoned Thomas McKendrick to death in a frenzied attack after a row over a horror film, is thought to have taken his own life at Shotts Prison.

Judge Roderick Macdonald QC branded Menzies an “evil and dangerous psychopath” and recommended he serve at least 18 years in prison when sentencing him to life at the High Court in Edinburgh on October 8 last year.

The former security guard, of Fauldhouse, West Lothian, claimed he was ordered by a vampire character from the horror film Queen Of The Damned to kill Mr McKendrick, also from Fauldhouse.

The killer had become obsessed with the film, which he had watched more than 100 times in the months before the murder.

Menzies, who suffered from an anti-social personality disorder, had a dangerous fascination with violence, which grew from a troubled childhood.

During the week-long trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, Menzies denied murder and attempting to defeat the course of justice.

He admitted culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished responsibility but this was rejected by the Crown.

The court heard Menzies believed The Queen of The Damned’s main character – a female vampire called Akasha – used to visit his bedroom and the pair had struck a deal in which he would achieve immortality if he killed people.

He snapped when his 21-year-old friend insulted the vampire – played by late US singer Aaliyah – and battered him with a hammer and repeatedly stabbed him to death.

The jury heard that Mr McKendrick suffered six heavy blows to the head and 42 stab wounds to the head, neck and body.

The court heard that after killing the 21-year-old, Menzies claimed he drank his blood and ate part of his head.

Menzies told the court that after murdering Thomas, a friend since he was four, he became a vampire and was immortal.

After killing his friend on December 11, 2002, he first dumped the corpse in a wheelie bin outside his home and later buried Mr McKendrick in a shallow grave in nearby woodland.

During the trial, jurors heard that Menzies, who changed his Christian name to Leon in honor of the assassin from the film of the same name, had become increasingly obsessed with vampires.

When police raided his home in January 2003 they found videos, including Queen Of The Damned, and one of the Vampire Chronicles books, Blood and Gold by Anne Rice, on which various passages had been hand written, many of them with mis-spellings.

Pages of the book were shown to the jury, including one on which had been written: “The blood is the life, I have drunk the blood and it shall be mine, for I have seen horror.”

The accused, who was sent to the State Hospital in Carstairs, Lanarkshire in May 2003 for assessment, also said he was disappointed there were no other vampires in the psychiatric unit.

It took the panel of six men and nine women 90 minutes to return guilty verdicts to both charges.

Menzies was stone-faced as Judge Macdonald jailed him for life. He said: “Three psychologists have diagnosed you as a psychopath.

“In my opinion you are an evil, violent and highly dangerous man who is not fit to be at liberty.

“You subjected Thomas McKendrick to a savage and merciless attack. You totally lack remorse.”

The judge also ordered that Menzies serve three years concurrently for attempting to defeat the aims of justice.

A statement from the Scottish Prison Service confirmed Menzies was found dead in Shotts Prison at about 7.50am today.

The statement added: “Police and next of kin have now been informed.

“A Fatal Accident Inquiry will be held in due course.”


Harry Lampert, the illustrator who created the DC Comics superhero “The Flash” and later became known for his instructional books on bridge, died Saturday. He was 88.

Lampert, who had been suffering from cancer, died at Boca Raton Community Hospital, according to his family.

He began drawing professionally at 16, inking cartoons at Fleischer Studios in New York for characters such as Popeye, Betty Boop and KoKo the Clown.

Six years later, Lampert created the DC Comics original “Flash Comics .1” in 1940, collaborating with writer Gardner Fox. The first-edition featuring the physics-defying superhero has become a classic among comic book collectors.

“He based it on the character in mythology (Hermes) … the wings on his feet,” said daughter Karen Lampert Akavan. “He had no idea how big it would be.”

Lampert received a steady stream of fan mail and requests for his early “Flash” drawings. But his favorite illustrations were gag cartoons, which appeared in publications including Time, Esquire, The New York Times, Saturday Evening Post and Saturday Review.

“Up to the last week he was redrawing ‘The Flash’ and selling it to people,” his daughter said.

Lampert spent much of his life as a cartoonist, and he taught at the New York School of Visual Arts. He also started an advertising agency in New York, which won several awards, including The Golden Lion at Cannes.

After retiring in Florida, Lampert was known as an avid bridge player. He became president of the American Bridge Teachers Association, and wrote several books on the subject including “The Fun Way to Serious Bridge,” largely considered a bible of the game.

Besides his daughter, Lampert is survived by his wife, Adele Lampert; and two grandsons.


Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks Basketball team has a weblog. The NBA fined Mark Cuban because of an entry he wrote.


1 year ago – Coffee, ghost towns, Grunt, growl & Tear, local cams, Zombie survival guide, Lego source, fun linkies, city stats, frankie wheedling, thai smiles

2 years ago – got a spine sucker after getting an epi, Freemasons, fezzes, slogans, first clues to undoing w/bro

3 years ago – meteors, taliban, mrblowup, broward county fair, Martian Manhunter Rehashed, sv tarot

4 years ago – Limb lopping, wonka, new ljstuff, hunter thompson, aok

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