PREDICTING THE FUTURE: IT’S HARD

Just ask Nathan Wright, who was asked by Ebony magazine in 1985 to imagine what African-American stars of the day would look like in the year 2000.



Oh snap!

Always in motion is the future,

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HEAVY WEATHER 2009: MOLAVE!

The typhoons, they begin. We are now at Signal 1.



Technically, this is the fourth Signal 1 warning we’ve had this year, but of the first three, only one came anywhere near Hong Kong and all three never built up enough strength to even rate as “severe tropical storm”, let alone a full blown typhoon. So I didn’t bother to pass those along. Even Molave isn’t expected to hit typhoon status. Heavy weatherwise, it’s definitely been a slow year for HK.

Either way, it looks like by Sunday we’ll be testing just how watertight the windows are in our new flat. We are not optimistic, frankly. But that’s a story for another time.

Blustery,

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THREE FRAMES IS ALL YOU NEED

Yr new favorite Interwub time waster [via Percy Trout]: Three Frames, where everything pretty much looks like this.



Self-explanatory, really.

WARNING: Some are decidedly NSFW.

FUN FACT: H.O.T.S. is not really all that great a movie, even by low-budget sexploitation standards. But I’m pretty sure that’s Danny Bonaduce and Flash Gordon in the trailer, so in case that appeals to you ...

And yes, this DID come out before Hooters started up in the early 80s. A coincidence, I’m sure.

Jerkin’ back and forth,

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SOFT PORN: IT’S EDUCATIONAL

ITEM [via Violet Blue]: Playboy model Leeann Tweeden has a few new words she’d like to share with you.

Evidently it’s part of a PSA campaign to raise awareness about autism. I’m not really sure it succeeds for fairly obvious reasons.

But as softcore porn, it’s kind of surreal.

Which is how I like my softcore porn. So okay.

The full collection of PSAs is here if yr interested.

Rethink different,

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