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Here’re some delightful photos of Mexico City wrestlers. My favorite of these Lucha Libre stars is either Super Porky (pictured), Super Raton, or Maximo — though Maximo could really use a longer skirt. (Sadly, La Liga Mexicana doesn’t feature any cholitas de Bolivia.)
Check out this Japanese game show — women wear hats of meat and test their courage in the face of a hungry lizard!
(Via BoingBoing.)
WASHINGTON – Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-GA, has introduced a bill to provide for the “expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur,” the rapper murdered in Las Vegas in 1996.
From a list of titles allegedly used by “prominent leaders from 160 nations across the world” to refer to Kim Jong-Il, as announced last winter by North Korean state television. The titles were translated from the Korean by Lee Jong-Heon. Originally from Harper’s Magazine, February 2005.
* Supreme Commander at the Forefront of the Struggle Against Imperialism and the United States
* Greatest Saint Who Rules with Extensive Magnanimity
* Lode Star of the Twenty-First Century
* Best Leader Who Realized Human Wisdom
* Leader with Extraordinary Personality
* Perfect Picture of Wisdom and Boldness
* Eternal Bosom of Hot Love
* Master of Literature, Arts, and Architecture
* World’s Best Ideal Leader with Versatile Talents
* Humankind’s Greatest Musical Genius
* Master of the Computer Who Surprised the World
* Man with Encyclopedic Knowledge
* Guardian Deity of the Planet
* Heaven-Sent Hero
* Power Incarnate with Endless Creativity
* Greatest Man Who Ever Lived
* Present-day God
* World’s Greatest Writer
AP:
SANTIAGO, Chile — Peru’s disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori, wanted there on human rights abuse and corruption charges, was arrested during a surprise visit to Chile, Peru’s foreign minister said late Sunday.
Fujimori, who led Peru from 1990 to 2000, has been a fugitive in his ancestral homeland Japan since he fled there in November 2000, when a corruption scandal toppled his government.
He flew from Japan to Chile on Sunday to try to relaunch his political career and run for president next year.
Maybe “El Chinito,” as Fujimori’s affectionately known, should seek the counsel of Ecuador’s currently-encarcerated ex-prez, Lucio Gutierrez.
See this equation? Well, an eight-year-old Korean boy, Song Yoo-geun, can tell you that it’s part of the Schrodinger Equation. But don’t feel bad if if you didn’t recognize the above as the famed “wave equation” (which, of course, is a partial differential equation that illustrates the way in which the wavefunction of a physical system evolves over time). Because Little Yoo-geun is a physics genius, and you’re not. And he just entered a Korean university.
BBC:
Burma’s military government has begun its move to a new administrative capital Pyinmana, in the jungle 600km (373 miles) north of Rangoon.
According to sources in Rangoon, convoys of trucks laden with personnel and equipment left on Sunday morning.
DC-based newley.com readers are cordially invited to Heartburn Fest 4 — tomorrow night at The Big Hunt. The festivities will commence at 8 p.m.-ish. The details:
Where: The Big Hunt, 1345 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC
When: Saturday, November 5, 8:00pm
What: It’s that time of year, once again, to celebrate the foods that dare not speak their names. Snacks that are bursting with empty calories and synthetic sweeteners. Processed vittles featuring colors not found in nature. Foods that make you feel…bad.
It’s time, in short, for Heartburn Fest 4: The Indigestival Returns.
Past Heartburn Fest attendees have brought gustatory delights such as: assorted Little Debbies dessert platters, Andy Kapp’s hot fries, Junior Johnson’s pork rinds, an Hors d’oeuvres tray consisting entirely of potted meats, hot dogs wrapped in bacon and smothered in cheese, tater tot casserole, fried spam, and much, much more.
After a three-year hiatus precipitated by various acts of God, international travel commitments, and threats of litigation at the hands of the Food and Drug Administration’s obesity task force, Heartburn Fest is rising from its ashes like a corpulent phoenix. The first Heartburn Fest, circa 2000, was an understated affair. The next year my bathroom caught fire. Then, in 2002, who could forget the fried Vietnamese cobra?
Join us in celebrating, once again, the foods your mother told you never to eat.
Feel free to bring a dish (or not). No outside drinks will be allowed, as we’ll be gathering at The Big Hunt (address above). My cell phone: 843.597.1502.
Special thanks to co-hosts Natalie Jones and Wendy Harman for their support in resurrecting Heartburn Fest. Mad props to Jordan Mastrodonato for the official HF4 poster.
Wonkette catches this recent screw-up in the LAT.
