What the hell is going on with all the UFO stories?
Above: just one of many news stories about the UFO sightings in Stephenville, TX
UPDATE: Advena Avis in Turkey appears to have reached some conclusions similar to what you are about to read.
ORIGINAL POST
A UFO blew up in the skies above a Vietnamese island last week. The Vietnam News Agency reported that “The explosion happened at about 8 km (5 miles) above the ground, and perhaps it was a plane, but authorities could not identify whether it was a civil or military aircraft.”
The same agency reported that residents of Phu Quoc island found what looked like gray, metallic debris. One piece was nearly 5 feet long.
Residents in the Cambodian village of Kampot, near Phu Quoc, told of hearing a loud explosion and finding pieces of metal near the ocean.
Authorities on Phu Quoc proper got in touch with air services in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, but none of those agencies reported any accidents.
An official with Cambodia’s Air Force initially said he’d heard about a foreign plane going down near Kampot. He later retracted the claim.
All of this leads your host to ask: What is up with all the UFO stories this year?
Hollywood is burning
A huge fire is underway this morning on a lot at Universal Studios. So far, it’s consumed major portions of a set often used for New York street scenes, the King Kong exhibit, and possibly even a film vault.
Capt. Frank Reynoso of the Los Angeles Fire Dept. told reporters that the initial reports of the fire came in just before dawn. At the time it was located on a sound stage….
Chimeras
I don’t really like to blog about myself. I started blogging in 2001, and I think I exhausted most of my interest in me by 2004 or so. I will, however, continue the psycho bitches entries, because I think I’m learning something by doing them. That, and maybe some other guys who share my faults will learn as well.
But like I said, I don’t like to blog about myself, so instead, I’d like to direct you to this radio show: RadioLab; and this entry at the ever-fascinating Damn Interesting about human chimeras…
Girls and notes (The Psycho Bitches, entry 1)
I slept with several girls during my senior year in high school. Now that I’m old, married and monogamous, this is basically irrelevant, but I still think about that year because some of what happened romantically was so fucking weird. This post is the first in an irregular series of entries intended to detail some of that insanity, just for my own amusement, if nothing else.
Teri (not her real name — you can just assume that every name I use is fake) had a pretty face. Her cheekbones were exquisite and her teeth were perfect. She was one of the few people I’d ever met who really was half Native-American. Her caucasian side showed in her light brown, wavy hair and pale green-brown eyes.
She sat next to me in English. A few days before homecoming she slipped me a note, asking me to go. It wasn’t the first time a girl had asked me out at that point, but I was still a sucker for that sort of thing. I wasn’t seeing anyone, so naturally, I said yes. Besides, she really was pretty hot, over all. In the next few days we began hanging out and making out, usually after school. The day of homecoming, she passed me another note, again in English class. Teri asked if I was into games. I returned the note, asking her what she meant by games. She responded, “love-making games.”
It was a weird way to put it, but I understood her perfectly. She was asking me if we could fuck after homecoming that night. After school that day I tried to clarify her meaning. She simply said, “you’ll see.”
Yep, she meant fucking. So we did…
And he didn’t even shit himself…
Videographer Doug Kiesling says he risks his life for the shot “so you don’t have to,” and he fucking well means it. Kiesling videotaped a wedge tornado in Kansas earlier this week, and in the process got some of the most awesome storm footage I’ve seen in a while. Wedge tornadoes are either very large twisters (can be up to a mile wide) or a nest of funnels — meteorologists just don’t always seem too sure. Whatever the case, once you watch Kiesling tape this monster you will also be in awe of either his stupidity or his big, brass balls.
