elaine paige & sarah brightman: memory - yes, hayley actually does like this one. i don't think she has a clue about the play it came from. this is a song i consider a true classic. hayley gives it 2 paws up.

10,000 maniacs: trouble me(live) - not a bad rendition of the song for a live performance, however, i still prefer the studio version as it appears on blind man's zoo.

9-lives: volumen - joke song - haven't heard it before (cat, 9 lives -- get it?)

hayley westenra: wuthering heights (uk) - this is the version that is on the uk pure release and seems to have a more flowery flow, while the american release is not nearly as flowery and quite a bit more stark in presentation. for anyone who has read the book or seen the movie, this is probably more fitting. i think the american release does a better job of showcasing hayley's astoundingly smooth and pure upper-range reach.......

i consider sarah one of the very best singers i've ever heard. she too is among the rare breed of operatic singers who can belt out pop tunes just as wonderfully as operatic arias. as many of you know i used her pic for my avatar. i love captain nemo, winterlight, lascia chi'o pianga, miserei me/ beautiful, amigos para siempre (with jose carreras). i could go on and on, but space is limited. i also love her duet with josh groban, there for me. and who would've known antonio banderas could sing like that in their duet of phantom of the opera? i admire her because she has talent......

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here is the yahoo entry:

wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_264104114.html - 60k - Cached

Student Charged With Wearing Fake Bomb At Logan

Police Say Simpson Had Circuit Board,......

When you’re on trial for a certain type of crime, it’s not best to reenact that crime in front of the whole jury unless you really want a free apartment where your toilet is always five inches from your head while you sleep.

According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, a man on trial for assault slugged his attorney when things weren’t going his way.

The defendant didn’t like the way his trial was going and asked for the judge for a new court-appointed attorney. Well, what did he expect from a free attorney? Soup kitchens don’t serve creme brulet.

So he decided the next best course of action was to headlock his attorney and punch him repeatedly in the head. The attorney recused himself from the case and the judge refused to give him another one, so the defendant had to represent himself for the remainder of the trial. Based on the amount of brain power he’d showcased so far, you......

Navigation System On, Brain Off: Brad Adams, 52, crashed his charter bus (carrying two dozen high school softball players, who had to be sent to a hospital) into a pedestrian bridge in Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum in April (bus: 11 feet, 8 inches high; bridge, 9 feet, 0 inches). Adams said he missed warning signs because he was busy following the navigation system. [Seattle Times, 4-17-08]

Five days after that, in King's Lynn, England, a Streamline taxi minibus had to be pulled from the River Nar after the driver, who said he was obediently following the navigation system instructions, drove straight into the water. [Lynn News, 4-23-08]

proper blog etiquette as i see it.

1. just like phone calls, the first is to inform, second to remind or add information and the third time is stalking.

2. don't make undeserved derisive (rude) comments about other people

3. the person on the other end isn't always who they seem, but i am genuinely a nice guy.

4. guys please don't call me dear, honey or other salutations generally reserved for deserving womenfolk. this is WAY creepy.

5. people not observing these rules will see their posts vanish.

6. i will never solicit an email address, nor will i advertise mine. however, in some instances i will be glad to forward mine as a whisper. this is like a secret, so don't forward it to other people. it's just rude if you do.

7. don't make yourself sound like a psychopath -- it just creeps me out to no end.

8. i shouldn't have to post this, but someone has made me feel just a little bit unnerved.

1997 -- In November in Santa Maria, Texas, Luis Martinez Jr., 25, was stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle by his uncle, allegedly to punish Martinez for not sharing his bag of Frito's.

1997 -- In October a 20-year-old man was hospitalized in Guthrie, Okla., after encouraging his friend, Jason Heck, to kill a millipede with a .22-caliber rifle; after two ricochets, Heck's bullet hit the man just above his right eye, fracturing his skull. (both from site news of the weird: newsoftheweird.com)

BISCUITS WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER IN DRIVE BY SHOOTING
(The actual AP headline, SOURCE: thegossipfix.com)

(4/23/08) Linda Burnett, 23, a resident of San Diego, went to a nearby supermarket to pick up some groceries. Several people noticed her sitting in her car with the windows rolled up and with her eyes closed, with both hands behind the back of her head.

One customer who had been at the store......

(20 June 2007, South Carolina) A passing cabbie found a 21 year-old couple naked and injured in the road an hour before sunrise. The two people died at the nearest hospital without regaining consciousness. Authorities were at a loss to explain what had happened. There were no witnesses, no trace of clothing, and no wrecked cars or motorcycles.

Investigators eventually found a clue high on the roof of a nearby building: two sets of neatly folded clothes. Safe sex takes on a whole new meaning when you are perched on the edge of a pyramid-shaped metal roof. "It appears as if [they] accidentally fell off the roof," Sgt. Florence McCants said.

This is a true Darwin Award trifecta: TWO people die, WHILE in the act of procreation, due to an ASTONISHINGLY poor decision. Bottom line: If you put yourself in a precarious "position" at the edge of a pointy roof, you may well find yourself......

The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.

In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.

The interview was headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother." Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom.

my take on this is that intergalactic marriage and immigration could be the next political hot potato. i say this in jest because it's highly doubtful other life forms we'd readiy marry are unlikely to be out there. besides, there'd probably be the sticky issue......

Nothing happened, so he did it again.

An hour later, he was brought unconscious to our Emergency Department, as sick as it is possible to be. His chest X-ray showed thousands of tiny seed-like objects scattered throughout his lungfields. Our working diagnosis was Milary Tuberculosis, so-called because the TB deposits resemble millet seeds. Little did we know!

Only two weeks later, after he recovered from life-threatening septicaemia and multiple organ failure, did the true story emerge. Darren survived, but......

i know i'm not the only one who feels this way, but perhaps one of the

very few who choose to air my feelings in such a public kind of way. i

don't ask for sympathy or pity, just an understanding that one can only

endure so much pain before it's time to make it end, whatever way i

can. i've endured this pent-up sadness and battled with it way more

than i care to recall. i feel like the only person on this planet who

feels this shitty all the time. this isn't one of those situational

feelings whose time will come to pass. this is darkness that lingers

longer than it was ever welcome. my time has come and gone, but the

loneliness and sadness refuse to go. i'll make sure hayley has a stable

and safe arrangement before this ever so brief chapter in bc history

comes to a close. if i cannot live for myself, then i refuse to live at

all. go ahead and call me......

perhaps it should be no surprise finding a troubled soul on bc's blogs. i know i'm not the only one who feels this way, but perhaps one of the very few who choose to air my feelings in such a public kind of way. i don't ask for sympathy......

(22 March 1999, Phnom Penh) Decades of armed strife have littered Cambodia with unexploded munitions and ordnance. Authorities warn citizens not to tamper with the devices.

Three friends recently spent an evening sharing drinks and exchanging insults at a local cafe in the southeastern province of Svay Rieng. Their companionable arguing continued for hours, until one man pulled out a 25-year-old unexploded anti-tank mine found in his backyard.

He tossed it under the table, and the three men began playing Russian roulette, each tossing down a drink and then stamping on the mine. The other villagers fled in terror.

Minutes later, the explosive detonated with a tremendous boom, killing the three men in the bar. "Their wives could not even find their flesh because the blast destroyed everything," the Rasmei......