If you missed it tonite, Stephen Colbert's interview with syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington, was one of the funniest moments on TV that i've seen in a long time.

see for yourself tomorrow, as it repeats at 8:30pm...

as for me, i'm getting my 2nd dose of "TRUTHINESS", as i head to the Report and check out Monsieur Colbert live.

man, nothing fascinates me more than this.

ever since kirk douglas was fighting one onboard the Nemo's Nautilus, i've been totally obsessed with Giant Squid...yes, sharks frighten me, but once one of these bad boys get a taste of man flesh, then i'll definitely be staying poolside.

unfortunately, London's got this bad boy on display, asking artist, Damien Hirst, known for a piece with a dead cow and babe sliced in half preserved in formaldyhyde, for some techniques on being able to both display and study it.

and only now do i find out that there's even a bigger friggin' squid out there...a Colossal Squid
how big you say? the body alone is bigger than one of London's double decker buses...only adolescent C-squids have been caught and dead ones at that, so the full size is just an estimate. and these bad boys have a much larger beak, and teeth that can spin 360!!! this thing would rip your arms off faster than a dress on prom night!!

makes you wonder why we're wasting money on a space program when there is so much we still need to learn about from our oceans...

we got friggin' sea monsters, man!!!



thank you for indulging in my geek tendencies.

bah, buh-buh-ba, bah, buh-buh-ba, baby...don't for-get--to be--born today.

and in the tradition of milli vanilli,---today, on the 28th, the last day of February, in the year of our lord twenty hundred and six at 7:19AM PST, the velvetde and her lord, Eric have a new addition to the Foreign Embassy.

born today is Rory Claire Kurzenburger, 7lbs. 14 oz, with blond hair, blue eyes and all.

and just like her Gilmore counterpart, she will be going to Yale and talking at lightning speeds; conversation laced with pop culture references galour!!

congrats to the new parents.

and realize the that the picture is just a placeholder until a suitable one can be put into place.

that is, in fact, not a real baby.

Because I Love You Guys...(and I mean those of you who would be interested, but I love the rest of you guys who couldn't care less too.)

Two Very Special Nights With:
THE FLAMING LIPS
(with Pink Mountaintops)
March 31 (Fri) & April 1 (Sat) / 6:30pm doors
$35 advance - $40 day of show / 18+

at Webster Hall, I believe.

on sale Wednesday...probably on ticketweb.

BLIZZARD: the Aftermath

**WARNING!! this is certainly not for the squeamish and not for those who are intimidated by true manliness!!***

You were warned.

Now mind you, i could not show you the full extent of my manliness so i CG'd clothes onto my body, as i was only in my boxers when i cut down this tree.

and you will notice my trusty sidekick LumberJubs standing by to haul off the dismembered parts of that foul tree that dare fell. if there was audio, you would hear my maniacal laughter as i was sawing off the limbs, sap splattering over my overdeveloped pectorals and wood splinters attempting to pierce my biceps or "Guns", as i call them, in vain.

I CAME, I SAW II, It KICKED ASS!!!!

this is certainly one of those "feel good" movies of the past year. and just like the tagline promises, yes, there will be blood...in copious amounts! i felt that this was an improvement from the first, much more of a psychological thriller than pure gorefest...though the gorefest is what keeps me amused and engaged. if anything, it is an extension of the first and doesn't try to placate that pussy MPAA by toning down the cutting into eyeballs, throwing up blood, and brains splattering all over the place which i miss so much from movies that try to pass as "horror".

i love this guy Jigsaw, think he's the cousin of Kevin Spacey's self-righteous bible freak from Seven, in that whole, i'm teaching these people a lesson...he's great, he never kills directly nor indiscriminately, if he got you it's b/c you're a very bad person and that beartrap strapped to your head is to show you the error of your ways, oh yeah, the key to get it out is lodged somewhere in your body and you have 60 secs to get it out...so see, he doesn't really want you to die. what a nice man.

SAW II is just one of the films, like Hostel, and the upcoming remake of The Hills Have Eyes, that are showing a return to the no holds barred gore flicks that i had so much enjoyed in my youth back in the day. make it a SAW night, watch the 2 back-to-back and revel in the fact that you're a good person and that there aren't steel clamps jammed in your mouth and the key to get it off isn't underneath a loved ones skullcap.