on to other silly news…

Apparently, Angelina Jolie got the GPS coordinates for Shawnee, Oklahoma tattooed on her. Turns out, it didn’t make either one of them cooler, and diminished the street cred of both. I guess she wanted to add some poor Okie to her collection of third-world lifestyle accessories adopted children. Yeah, I went there. Relatively quickly, too.

We weren’t the only shop closed temporarily for a bomb scare. It would appear that more than likely one of two scenarios played out here. Some speculate the local sheriff (up for reelection) staged it as a publicity stunt and to smear some weirdos. I personally think someone with an axe to grind (unethical competitor, angry customer, psycho ex) called the sheriff saying “he’s got bombs and drugs and guns in there!!” and a hysterical, attention-hungry machine sprang into action with nary a thought to the veracity of the accusation. It’s kind of scary, since I piss people off, have psycho exes, and VERY little faith in the collective ethics of the body modification industry. Creepy that everything one works for over years can be spoiled by one moment a person may or may not have had any control over.

And the record for the most FAIL for a newspaper article NOT from an official government source goes to….Rachel Baruch Yackley of the Chicago Daily Herald for this thinly-veiled PR release for Zales Corporation extolling the virtues of Piercing Pagoda, the #1 group buying congressmen lobbying legislators to make sure NONE of the laws or safety regulations apply to companies that only pierce ears. Bonus FAIL points for the picture of the little girl touching her piercings and the quote “piercing businesses as well as doctors typically use a piercing gun, instead of a needle”

And y’all wonder why I am a bit wound up most of the time?