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Pro Wrestler and reality TV star Hulk Hogan might want to start paying attention to those uber-irritating eHarmony commercials. Hogan’s wife Linda filed for divorce this week, and it what can only be seen as a bad sign, the Hulkster found out about it from a reporter seeking comment. Yoink.

Hogan and his family have been featured on the VH1 reality show Hogan Knows Best for the past few years. Recent episodes showed Hulk and Linda attending counseling, but also showed them reconciling. Guess that didn’t work out.

No problem Hulkster. Just say your prayers and eat your vitamins and everything will work out.

The full scoop’s at MSNBC

Rob at Cockeyed.com is building a fantastic Halloween costume. He’s going to be Dwight Schrute from The Office. Well, kind of. He’s going to be Dwight’s bobblehead. Genius.

Check out all his pictures of the construction and watch the progress

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In honor of today being my birthday, I’ve compiled a few birthday tunes, and a list of cool people who happen to share the day with me:

• Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland
• Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States
• Lester Young, jazz saxophone player (aka Prez, aka Pork Pie Hat)
• Mother Teresa, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize, Atheist?
• Sgt. Slaughter, professional wrestler
• Paul “Pee-Wee Herman” Reubens
• Alex Lifeson, guitarist from Rush
• Sarah Chalke, actress from Scrubs (on the very same day!!!)

If you look at Wikipedia’s full list of births you may notice a trend: there are an awful lot of Nobel Prize winners. I guess August 27th is a day when geniuses are born…

Andrew Bird - The Happy Birthday Song

The Sugarcubes - Birthday

Thelonious Monk - Boo Boos Birthday

And an appropriate bit of comedy from Sterling, Virginia’s most bitter son, Patton Oswalt:
Patton Oswalt - You Are Allowed 20 Birthday Parties

This is a hysterical satire of an anti-pornography film from the 1960s. It artfully presents the absurdity of the uptight puritanical factions of the US.

What’s that you say? This isn’t satire? It’s serious? Oh. Well then. Then it’s basically just offensive. Throughout the film the narrator alleges that viewing pornographic images will turn the viewers into “perverts”. What the hell does that mean? And I’d love to know where they got the figure that 75-90% of pornography ends up in the hands of children. The only thing this video convinced me is that I hope that the sort of people who made it give up fucking and their backward-ass attitudes towards sex disappear.

There’s really nothing I can add to this article…

Some industrious Star Wars fan built his own Darth Vader hot air balloon. I’m not sure about you, but I’d put Hot Air Balloon along with Parachute on my list of things I’m not making myself…

Link to the details
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What? What makes them disposable? And how often do you find yourself needing disposable underwear? Why would you ever want disposable underwear when you could buy permanent underwear? Are they for male prostitutes? Anyone have any ideas?

On a package of WetNaps given to me on the plane from Nanjing to Guangzhou. Hygiene Wet Turban Needless Wash? I’m having a hard time figuring out what that’s even supposed to say. Hygiene I understand. Same with Wet. But Turban? Needless? Just odd.

From the breakfast buffet at our hotel. Corn on the Cop? Sounds like some sort of kinky Village People game…

Ok, ok, it’s not a Chuck E Cheese. But come on, doesn’t it look like they should start moving and singing bad songs (sorry for bringing up any bad memories Aaron…). Actually they are figures a the Zhonghua Gate, a piece of the wall around the ancient city of Nanjing, built in the 1300s. More pictures here. These characters represent the four mythical folks who traveled to India to study and bring back ideas. Or at least that’s what our guide said. I think they’re there to entertain children at birthday parties.

I fully admit my mind is usually in the gutter, but I can’t even think of a non-gutter explanation for this one…The only thing I can come up with is that it’s a Chinese diorama depicting the Aristocrats joke: the filthy joke that comedians would tell to each other, with their own improvisations, that was chronicled in the documentary The Aristocrats. If you’re unfamiliar with the joke, here’s Bob Sagat’s rendition from the movie.

Given the joke, I can only assume that’s what’s going on in this photo. Only question is where the rooster came from…

The sign over the seafood restaurant around the corner from our hotel. I’m glad to see Americans aren’t the only ones that screw up the translations. This should make all the frat boys with “Stupid White Person” tattooed on their biceps feel better.

Seen so far in Nanjing: 4 McDonalds, 4 KFCs, a Subway, and the graddaddy of them all, Wal-Mart. I’m not sure if this is comforting or saddening. The homogenization of global cultures brings about some definite perks. For instance I was able to replace my broken memory card reader for $6 at Wal-Mart. But the more we homogenize culture the more risk we run in losing the things that keep our cultures distinct. This is what jet-lag makes me think of…

Which way to Albuquerque?

I’m in China for a couple of weeks, so updates will be sporadic. I’ll post anything cool I see here though. So check back.

Now that Chinese New Year has passed we’re trough-deep in the Year of the Pig. RetroCrush is celebrating by posting their Top 35 Pigs in Pop Culture. From the article: “The Three Little Pigs in their many incarnations have been shills for the brick industry since the late 1700s and have even inspired rock songs in their honor”. Funny stuff here, and it’s hard to argue with their selections (mainly because I can’t think of a single pop culture pig they left out…).

I had no intention of covering the whole Britney Spears meltdown thing. Then I saw this: BuyBritneysHair.com. Hilarious!

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