Smells like “sweaty feet”… Sexy.

Okay, I love lily of the valley. My second favorite has to be orchids. So you can guess my inevitable sadness when I read this news…

“I was out surveying clovers one afternoon, and I started smelling something. I was like, ‘Eew, what’s that?’” said Colwell, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey in El Portal. “It smelled like a horse corral on a hot afternoon.”

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Park officials said they would not release details about where the plant was found because they were concerned visitors might love it to death.

Right. We’re Ssooooo afraid that the visitors are just going to love the horse corral flower to death! It smells like sweaty feet and has little to know aesthetic appeal, but man, those visitors might run from all corners of the universe just to marvel in the glory that is this ugly and incredibly bad smelling flower.

This sort of thing only happens in Alberta…

…Weird.

Recently, Mike Lake, a Canadian member of parliament from Edmonton, Alberta, agreed to introduce a petition that called for Bigfoot to be protected under the Canadian version of the endangered species act.

Lake presented to the House of Commons a petition that stated, “The debate over (Bigfoot’s) existence is moot in the circumstance of their tenuous hold on merely existing. Therefore, the petitioners request the House of Commons to establish immediate, comprehensive legislation to affect immediate protection of Bigfoot.”

People are fighting to have things that may not exist protected under the endangered species act but they’re not showing more concern for animals that we’re already certain are in fact leaving our planet forever. …So messed up.

Via dreadful.

My mother called me today asking when I was coming home, where I was… etc… It was around that time that I realized that I’ve been away from home for quite a while and havn’t been updating or anything! Oh dear. Well, I’m in the Toronto-ish area with Samis. Tonight we’re going to a bar with highschool friends to watch the hockey game… (Go Wings!… Only because I want to see the Sens EAT them in the final playoff…woo!) I spent most of today walking the dog and reading - I read a really horrible book called Fruitcake… it was one Sam had lying around her room.

Friday we baked a cake drunk. And listened to a lot of dance mix ‘95. Saturday we had a big huge party fully loaded with fireworks. Woo…

Our cake:

The only pan we could find was shaped like a heart - which was unfortunate since we were trying to mend our broken hearts and hate men. On top of that… it was a pretty horrible tasting cake.

I didn’t get many pictures of the party… but here is one of Fahad playing dream phone and Diamond with her new boyfriend Joe.

I am heading home tomorrow… my mom wants me to be in Guelph for the weekend so that I can help my grandma do a yardsale - I’ll say this… She better use the money made from that damn yardsale to buy me a frikkin’ bed. Seriously… The pull out is just not doing the job (maybe that’s why I’ve stayed at Sam’s for so long)

before I take off for the bar, I’ll just throw up one of our actual pictures from the hike. I’ll be home tomorrow, so I’ll get back on track again! Yip.Ee. Also, here is a cool picture of a volcanoe erupting on Lo.

“True Stories”, by Vinko Bogataj (click to enlarge)

For a couple of decades, ABC’s Wide World of Sports featured the same introduction: a montage of athletes performing amazing feats as an announcer spoke of “the thrill of victory.” But the most memorable part of the introduction was when an obscure Slovenian athlete crashed on a ski jump in an illustration of “the agony of defeat” (video).

That bit became seared on the American consciousness, to the point that comedian Rich Hall invented a new word, “agonosis“, defined as “The syndrome of tuning in on Wide World of Sports every weekend just to watch the skier rack himself.”

But now it appears as though the skier guy has gotten the last laugh. Vinko Bogataj is now a famous artist whose work is displayed in galleries throughout the world (link).

So whatever happened to all those “thrill of victory” guys?

(via Neatorama)

(cross posted at appletree and Liberal Avenger)

You have to watch this. Colbert has stolen my heart. …again.