Seattle mechanaphile has had sex with 700 cars

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

A story in The Mirror provides details of Edward Smith's love life as a mechanaphile:

"A man who has had sex with over 700 cars has revealed how he had his first physical experience of car love with a Volkswagen Beetle.

"Edward Smith, 63, told Phillip Schofield and Amanda Holden on This Morning how he was “tempted one night to step outside” to make love to the neighbour’s car as a young teen, having first become attracted to cars in 1965.

". . .Edward is sexually attracted to machines – and as well as having sex with cars, has also had a relationship with a helicopter and planes, claiming they are all better than women. 

“I began an interest in the beauty of cars when I was turning just 15 years of age,” revealed Edward, from Washington in the US.  Go here to read the entire article in The Mirror and see the brief video clip (SFW more or less).

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ATIT Reheated: Boats along the Palomino/La Matuy beach in Colombia

By Jack Brummet, Colombia Travel Ed.

All along the fantastic and deserted beach we lived on at the eco-palapa joint near Palomino (no electricity, internet, etc.), property lines were often demarcated by old dinghys, prams, canoes, and rowboats. . .often with amazing textures, colors, and half-baked repairs. . .

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Drawing: —Faces No. 918—

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Sonic, and Mario appear on new Irish postage stamps

By Jack Brummet, Games Ed.


Ireland released four new postage stamps today: Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Sonic, and Mario.  The stamps were created by a Dublin-graphics studio, Zinc Design Consultants.

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A professor's strange month in jails and mental hospitals

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The Grateful Dead 1991 - Turn On Your Lovelight - with Bruce Hornsby and Branford Marsalis

By Jack Brummet, Rock Ed.

Some of my favorite Dead shows were from the dark time after Brent died and Bruce Hornsby joined the band for a year and a half. Things got even better when Branford Marsalis came along. He played many shows with them around that same period. 

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Shoe Cameras in Japan (clandestine up-skirt cameras)

Police in Japan's Kyoto Prefecture raided a shoe manufacturer in July and commandeered a list of about 1,500 purchasers of the company's signature "tosatsu's"—shoes with built-in cameras. Investigators have begun visiting the purchasers at home to ask that they hand in the shoes (but, out of fairness, said they would not cause trouble for customers who could produce a legitimate reason for needing to take photographs and video by pointing their shoe at something). (The seller was charged with "aiding voyeurism" and fined the equivalent of about $4,500 under a nuisance-prevention law.) —From United Press International, 9-23-2014

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Drawing: Faces No. 920

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: Breakdown

By Jack Brummet

The undead walk
    Sloughing tendrils of putrefied flesh

And the living

    Are made of cardboard

The border between
    Being and nothingness

Is erased
    Fee Fie Foe Fum.

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Faces No. 919 - anonymous

By Jack Brummet

More twisted Halloween costumes

By Jack Brummet, Holiday Ed.

These are probably not as twisted, but every bit as amusing, as our earlier posts on Halloween costumes:

Twisted Halloween costumes, Part 1
Twisted Halloween costumes, Part 2

Ginger Snap Army

Merbaby

Wraps

The Pizza Guy

Nature Gal

Coors Light Gladiator

Octomom

Creepy

The Popemobile

Zombie Ronald McDonald

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Twisted Halloween costumes, Part 2

By Jack Brummet


A continuation of Twisted Halloween Costumes.  Click here to see the first post.

The Car

Cerebrus?

Physician

Father Muldoon

Sister Mary

Summer Beach Gear

WTC - Still too soon?

Not a costume, maybe, but a very strange tableau

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