Brow Beaten

A Portland high school is raising eyebrows with its brow grooming policy: shave 'em or go home.

Some students at Centennial High School have shaved vertical lines into their eyebrows in a trend recently made popular by hip-hop star Soulja Boy. School officials say the mark looks like a gang symbol.

Centennial administrators are telling students with the lines that they can't return to school until they shave their eyebrows off. Assistant Principal Mark Porterfield said the students are not suspended, but they are not allowed in school until they cooperate.

Four students have been sent home. One returned with a bandage covering the shaved brow.

Police say gangs have co-opted the trend for their own use, with one gang's members marking themselves by shaving one line into an eyebrow and three lines in the other to symbolize 13.

It's Fun To Do Bad Things...Hood Rat Stuff

Delysid

Albert Hofmann, father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious "problem child," died Tuesday. He was 102.

Hofmann's hallucinogen inspired millions in the 1960's hippie generation. For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention.

The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel.

He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped onto his finger during a repeat of the laboratory experiment April 16, 1943.

"I had to leave work for home because I was suddenly hit by a sudden feeling of unease and mild dizziness," he wrote in a memo to company bosses. "Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror," he said, describing his bicycle ride home. "I had the impression I was rooted to the spot. But my assistant told me we were actually going very fast."

For a time, Sandoz sold LSD 25 under the name Delysid, encouraging doctors to try it themselves. It was one of the strongest drugs in medicine, with just one gram enough to drug an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people for 12 hours.

"LSD can help open your eyes," he once said. "But there are other ways: meditation, dance, music, fasting."

Hand Ball?

Ronaldo went into hiding Tuesday after a run-in with cross-dressing prostitutes. He canceled two TV appearances and local media said he will continue physiotherapy at his home.

Prostitution is legal in Brazil.

Ronaldo told police he knew they were prostitutes but did not realize they were cross-dressers until getting to a motel. That is where Ronaldo says one of them tried to extort money from him to hide the story from the media.

Police said one of the prostitutes "fled" from the police station during questioning.

A brief video clip of Ronaldo at the motel apparently recorded by one of the prostitutes with a cell phone became a big hit in Brazil after being posted on the YouTube Web site.

Ronaldo reportedly was celebrating Flamengo's 1-0 victory over rival Botafogo in the first leg of the Rio de Janeiro state final that he attended at Maracana stadium on Sunday.

Ronaldo has won two World Cups with Brazil, including the in 2002 when he scored eight goals, including two in the final against Germany.

What The F(ritzl)!?!?!

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/29/austria.cellar.profile/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/28/cellar.rooms/index.html#cnnSTCText

...at least Rick James had class when he locked a girl up...

Sorry...

Monday was my first day at my new job, so sleep and work are going to take some getting used to...I hate change---nah, no I don't---I hate work.

Who is with me on this?

Flying Priest

My Two Visitors...

Mark and Melanie Jafar!!!!

and....
Thurston and Ellen Carlen!!!
...let's give these two a round of applause for making it all the way out to The Burgh!

Benny The Bull(Sh*t)

An Illinois dentist called a flagrant foul on Chicago Bulls' mascot Benny the Bull on Monday, suing the team over a high-five gone awry.

Dr. Don Kalant Sr. alleged he was sitting near courtside on Feb. 12 when he raised his arm to get a high-five from Barry Anderson, who portrays the exuberant mascot in a bright red fuzzy costume.

Instead of merely slapping Kalant's palm, Anderson grabbed his arm as he fell forward, hyperextending Kalant's arm and rupturing his biceps muscle, according to the lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court.

The lawsuit claims Anderson was negligent in either "falling forward while grabbing a fan's hand" or "running out of control" through the crowd according to the Chicago Tribune.

*(Note: Benny the Bull- Job Description: Run out of control through the crowd. Fall forward for laughs. Grab fan’s hands whenever possible.)

Whenever Your Birthday Is...

Chris Kelly would like to wish you a Happy Birthday!!!

...from the smiley face in his cake!!

The Star Of Manayunk

An elderly Manayunk woman has been charged with animal cruelty after being accused of mutilating a dog with an axe. But there are conflicting reports as to who struck the fatal blow.

Authorities said a dog named Star was savagely beaten to death Tuesday morning with an axe hammer.

Neighbors said they could hear the dog yelping in pain Tuesday morning. "Here's this woman beating this little dog with a hatchet and the little dog was lying on the ground screaming," neighbor Ann Hawlett said.

However, the dog's owner (HER SON!!) contends his mother is not responsible for the dog's death. He believes Star somehow escaped from his backyard before someone mutilated her and dumped her body on his front stoop.

He said his mother, while yelling in Russian, picked up Star and placed her in the backyard. "She was screaming for help and they called the cops and they arrested her," the owner said.

Star's owner believes someone who has a personal grudge is responsible for the dog's death.

"Spring Break Ass"

Stop looking at her…and look at him- no, not him…the other guy (in the back)…‘finger’ to the right of this picture and tell me that isn’t Terrell Owens?!?

Owens is not pictured in the rest of the series of photos/videos called "Spring Break Ass," which were posted on BangBros.com yesterday.
Owens, now with the Dallas Cowboys, is represented by Drew and Jason Rosenhaus, who, like BangBros.com are based in Miami.
If you will please notice that Terrell Owens has been cropped out of this new image, that now appears on BangBros.com.

You gotta love the off season!!! Bang(Cow)'Boys.com??- oh wait, that just doesn't sound right...

The Fallen

Over the weekend, John Marzano- aka: Johnny Marz-, added one more error to his lifetime stats. Marzano fell down a flight of stairs, but the precise cause of death has not been determined. Although Marzano was never a star player, he always exhibited a boisterous penchant for getting on camera with jokes and pranks.

While at Temple University, he earned a spot on the 1984 United States Olympic team as a catcher. Although baseball was still an Olympic demonstration sport at the time, with no medals awarded, that ’84 team included the future major league stars Mark McGwire, Barry Larkin and Will Clark.

John Robert Marzano was born in Philadelphia — “South Philly” he would have insisted, with an accent indicative of that part of town — on Feb. 14, 1963—he was 45 years old.

Just A Weird Day...

A postal worker is credited with saving a 1-year-old girl's life by catching her after the baby fell out of a second-story window in Albany, New York.

Lisa Harrell was delivering mail to a home late Monday morning when she noticed a baby in a window above the front door. Harrell says the next thing she knew, the baby had fallen into her arms.

When the baby's mother realized what had happened, she ran outside and grabbed the girl from Harrell. The woman thanked Harrell and then ran down the street to her mother's house.

No charges are being filed against the mother, who says she had placed her daughter on a bed that was up against the window. The mother said her back was turned when her daughter crawled out the open window.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/22/baby.caught.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

Google Is Amazing

Happy Birthday to Mark...I couldn't have said it better myself.

My American Idol

So I'm a little behind on the DVR, but I finally got thru American Idol from this past week. It was the most amazing one yet. Not for the singing- oh no, it was for the most impressive cameo in recent memory. Which one of these I.H.P. (Individualized Honors Program) student's beautiful faces did my eyes bestow................???????

Dennis Fuckin' Blunden.
....I always thought Arvid Engen and he would end up living together in paradise somewhere. I guess the real question is- Where is Jawaharlal?

I Have Exorcised The Demons...

The New York Yankees have ended a construction worker's attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Red Sox jersey. Team officials watched Sunday as construction workers removed the jersey from two feet of concrete in a service corridor of the stadium that is under construction.

The Boston Red Sox jersey with the name of player David Ortiz that was unearthed at the new Yankee Stadium in New York, Sunday, April 13, 2008.

Apologies....And Such.

I would like to take some time on this beautiful Friday morning to offer my apologies to all the FingerMyBlog Faithful. Without you, the last few months were the lonliest of my life. Thank god I had Lisa to get me thru it.

So anyway, since we last 'Fingered each other', I've moved out west- way out to Western Pennsylvania.

That's right folks...Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The City of Bridges, The Steel City, The Iron City, Steel Town, The City of Champions, The City of Colleges, P-Burgh, The Burgh- whichever you prefer. Or the start of Glenn & Lisa's dynasty, as I like to call it.

Also, I just landed a new job up in 'The Burgh' and start on April 28th. So before long, I'll be 'Fingering' (from) a god damn cubicle.

....and I can't tell you how depressing (uplifting??) that is- but you can't keep a good finger down! Finger on!

I Ain't Never Scurred.

A Great Time For Change