I only cross-post when it's really fucking important.
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Natural High's official site has an October 9th, 2008 release date in place for Pico x Chico x Coco. I'm confident it'll get put on the web as soon as its released considering this thing is so long awaited. It's reportedly going to be twice as long as the other two groundbreaking shota releases.
Oh. And October 9th also happens to be my 30th birthday. I so sure I don't look a day over bishounen-age right?
Also, cocks.
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A little fight in ya.
I like that. Labels: epic, internets, movies, pixiesticks
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Holy shit: Diablo 3!
Twenty years have passed since the cataclysmic events of Diabloฎ II. Mephisto, Diablo, and Baal have been defeated, but the Worldstone, which once shielded the world of Sanctuary from the forces of both the High Heavens and the Burning Hells, has been destroyed, and evil once again stirs in Tristram.... Labels: epic, video games
Following the unveiling of Diablo III today at the Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational, we've launched the game's official website, with information about the places, characters, monsters, and adventures awaiting you upon your return to the world of Sanctuary. Some of the site's highlights include:
>The cinematic teaser trailer shown at the 2008 Worldwide Invitational
>A 20-minute gameplay demo video
>More than 60 screenshots and pieces of concept art
>Deckard Cain's journal, narrated by Deckard Cain himself -- stay a while and listen!
>And much, much more
Visit the new Diablo III website now to learn more about the game
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That's the gayest thing since gay went to gaytown.
SAN FRANCISCO Dozens of gay couples were married Monday after a landmark ruling making California the second state to allow same-sex nuptials went into effect.
At least five county clerks around the state extended their hours to issue marriage licenses, and many same-sex couples got married on the spot.
The May 15 California Supreme Court ruling overturning bans on same-sex marriage took effect at 8:01 p.m. Eastern time.
The really big rush to the altar was not expected to take place until Tuesday, which is when most counties planned to start issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of couples from around the country are expected to seize the opportunity to make their unions official in the eyes of the law.
In San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom, who helped launch the series of lawsuits that led the court to strike down California's one-man-one-woman marriage laws, presided at the wedding of Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84.
Newsom picked the couple for the only ceremony in City Hall Monday in recognition of their long relationship and their status as pioneers of the gay rights movement. More than 600 same-sex couples have made appointments to get marriage licenses in San Francisco over the next 10 days.
In February 2004, Newsom decided to challenge California's marriage laws by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
In the month that followed, more than 4,000 same-sex couples were married before a judge acting on petitions brought by gay marriage opponents halted the city's spree. The state Supreme Court ultimately voided those unions, but two dozen couples sued and those lawsuits led the same court last month to overturn California's ban on gay marriage.
Among the plaintiffs in those lawsuits was a couple married Monday in a Jewish ceremony in front of the Beverly Hills courthouse.
The ceremony between Robin Tyler and Diane Olson was broadcast live on three newscasts in Los Angeles.
The couple wept and pressed their foreheads together, and onlookers whooped as the marriage became valid.
Rabbi Denise Eger saluted the couple for "these many years of coming to this very place and standing on these courthouse steps year after year of being denied this right, this civil right."
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Woman survives 195 hours buried in rubble from China's earthquake.
CHENGDU, China (CNN) -- A woman who survived on rainwater has been freed after being trapped in rubble for 195 hours in the aftermath of the Chinese earthquake, which has now killed more than 40,000. The 60-year-old woman escaped with just facial bruises and a minor fracture during her eight-day ordeal. Labels: China, disasters, epic, health news
The official Xinhua news agency identified her as Wang Youqun, a retiree, and said she had been unconscious for a day when a falling girder hit her head in the May 12 quake, The Associated Press reported.
She was apparently trapped in a landslide that swept away a temple in the city of Pengzhou and was intially able to move, but a later aftershock trapped her between two rocks, according to AP.
Her dramatic discovery came hours after rescue teams pulled two men men from the rubble in Sichuan province.
One of the men was found in a mine in Qingchuna county and a second in a hydroelectric plant in Wenchuan county, state-run media reported.
They had been buried for six days and 20 hours and seven days and 11 hours, respectively, according to China's Xinhua news agency.
The rescues give a glimmer of hope amid the rising daily death toll. Official figures show the number of victims has risen to 40,075 in the Sichuan province alone.
The United States announced Tuesday it would send a shipment of specialized recovery equipment and a team of specialists to southwestern China this week. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says more than $815,000 worth of additional assistance will be sent to China.
That brings the total USAID assistance to China to more than $1.3 million. Last weekend, the United States sent U.S. Air Force C-17s carrying aid to China, including tents and generators.
After signing a sympathy book with the first lady at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, President Bush vowed to "stand ready to help in any way the Chinese government would like."
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The Anime Money Shot Heard Round the World
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Of the many happy campers at the record-demolishing (and economy-confounding) Sotheby's auction last night, Takashi Murakami may have been the happiest. Drawing stares from art-world veterans one told us she'd never seen an artist show up to watch his own work on the block the Japanese Pop maestro sat in the back of the room with a serene smile as My Lonesome Cowboy, his larger-than-life sculpture of a boy waving an ejaculate lasso, brought in $15.2 million quintupling the artist's previous record at auction. (The signature piece, an edition of which is currently on view at the artist's Brooklyn Museum show, was sold by his former dealer Marianne Boesky.) "Oh, it's not surprising," Murakami said as he huddled with his Paris dealer, Emmanuel Perrotin, after the auction. Pretty gratifying, though? "Yeah, yeah, yeah," he said. "Basically."
Another contented observer of the auction, albeit from the astral plane, was Robert Rauschenberg. Two days after the artist's death at 82, his painting Overdrive did, as speculated, set a record, bringing in $14.6 million. (All Sotheby's figures include their commission, which is about 10 percent atop the winning bid.) The big winner of the night, however, was Francis Bacon, whose triptych set a new record for the artist when it went to a phone bidder for a staggering $86.3 million. ("Be brave," auctioneer Tobias Meyer had exhorted the buyers calling in, presumably from oversees. "Look at the Euros.")
There were some surprises at the sale, however. Most notably, a massive Rothko failed to draw a single bidder. (Sotheby's, which devoted a full eight pages to the work in the night's catalogue, had forecast it would earn more than $35 million.) "We've seen an inevitable moving towards bigger and bigger," Nick Lawrence, the Freight + Volume gallerist, said. "When will it get to where the center cannot hold?" But on a night that drew out many of the major players, it appeared that the center was holding just fine for the time being. "At first I wondered whether the famous irrational exuberance might be at work," said writer Anthony Haden-Guest, who is working on a book about the history of the thrumming market. "But no, it started real strong, though it molted a bit towards the end. I think it's certainly remarkable."
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Bees!!
Labels: animal news, epic, Florida
DeLAND, Fla. -- A giant cloud of thousands of bees mysteriously appeared and began to swirl in a "tornado pattern" around a Central Florida Mexican restaurant.
Customers at Oxie's restaurant located near Highway 17-92 and Plymouth Avenue in DeLand said they noticed a cloud in the sky and thought it was raining. They then realized, the cloud was a swarm of bees.
"A lot of people said it was bees and ran to their cars," restaurant owner Oxie Ochiana said. "It was scary. I was panicking. I didn't know what to do."
Witnesses said the bees began to swirl like a tornado and menace customers Thursday.
"I looked and it was like a tornado of bees just all around our parking lot, swarming," said restaurant worker Marie Olson.
A crowd formed at a distance to watch the cloud of bees.
"It was crazy," Olson said. "I was shocked. I was surprised to see it. I don't know where they came from, so it was amazing to actually see them like that. It was awesome."
State bee experts said the bees, which were moving from tree to tree, are now resting because they have formed two huge cone-shaped swarms in a tree.
Experts said the bees would likely move out about 24 hours after forming the cones.
However, Ochiana called beekeepers to remove the cones from nearby trees Thursday night.
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Elevator Hell
NEW YORK - A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an Internet sensation after surveillance camera footage emerged after nearly a decade. Labels: disasters, epic, new york city, you tube
"After a certain period of time I knew that I was in pretty big trouble because it was the weekend," Nicholas White said Monday on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America."
Video of his Oct. 15, 1999, ordeal in an elevator in New York's McGraw-Hill building was posted online to accompany an article in the April 21 edition of The New Yorker. It can be seen on the magazine's Web site and had been viewed more than 280,000 times on YouTube by Monday morning.
White said he understood why the video has captured people's attention: So many have wondered what they would do if it happened to them.
Edited to a soundtrack of classical piano music, the video shows him pacing, trying to climb the walls, lying down, curled up in a fetal position, prying apart the doors. (He said he relieved himself down the shaft when the doors were open.)
White sued the managers of the midtown skyscraper and the elevator maintenance company and won an undisclosed settlement.
He was a production manager for Business Week when he left his office about 11 p.m. Friday for a cigarette break. According to the article, it was never determined exactly why the elevator stalled though there was talk of a voltage dip.
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Nihonjin Kareshi Boshu-chu
I met a boy last night. A rare sort, you see, because he's Japanese. There are only two other Japanese gay boys in this city that go out that I know. Tatsuo and Jun. Labels: boys, DJ Kaze and Tatsuo, epic, Heretic, Japan, personal
I couldn't quite hear the name he gave me other than his Americanized name. Terry. Heh. But it could be Shinjiichi. I know it sounded quite a bit like Shinji in there somewhere.
He seemed to be into me. We sat in the corner of the back bar at Heretic for a couple of hours. And he always came back after saying, "I'll be right back" which is a good thing.
He's new to the city. 3 weeks.
Very fun to talk to. Lots of laughing, and real interest going back and forth. Towards the end of the night, I was trying to get him to come back on Wednesday. I explained the shirtlessness rule and he professed his shyness. Yet when we passed by the dark room, he seemed highly curious. I explained that part of the place and he grabbed my arm and pulled me into the corner. Sadly (or perhaps for the best) we didn't do anything but talk back there.
I got his number, and after he said he had to leave, I asked if he wanted me to walk him to the front. (We were all the way in the back of the large nightclub) He said yes and at the door I kissed him just to the side of his mouth.
He told me that I should call him to see about us seeing each other on Wednesday night.
I'm trying not to get too giddy about this, but holyhell that's fucking awesome.
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Fidel Castro is stepping down.
Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro announced Tuesday he was stepping aside, ending five decades of ironclad rule marked by his brash defiance of the United States. Labels: epic, international news
Citing poor health, Fidel Castro, 81, said he would not retain the presidency when the national assembly meets later this week, in a message published by the online version of the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma.
"I neither will aspire to, nor will I accept, the position of president of the Council of State and commander-in-chief," Castro wrote, almost 19 months after undergoing intestinal surgery and handing power temporarily to his brother Raul Castro.
"It would betray my conscience to take up a responsibility that requires mobility and total commitment that I am not in physical condition to offer," he said.
Castro did not say who he thought should be his successor. Any member of his inner circle is arguably a contender, although many Cuba-watchers believe Raul Castro, who has been serving as interim president, is the leading choice.
However, the elder Castro's reference in his on-line letter to a "middle generation" suggests that younger leaders such as Vice President Carlos Lage, 56, should not be ruled out.
US President George W. Bush said Tuesday that Fidel Castro's decision to step down should begin a "democratic transition" in Cuba, eventually culminating with free and fair elections.
"I believe that the change from Fidel Castro ought to begin a period of democratic transition," said Bush, who signaled no change in a half-century of tough US policies towards America's one-party neighbor.
In Washington, the US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said there were no plans to end the decades-old US trade embargo on Cuba.
Asked if Washington planned to lift sanctions, he stated: "I don't imagine that happening anytime soon."
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Continued more on Heath Ledger
Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office, said the autopsy on the 28-year-old actor was inconclusive and that more would be known after more thorough tests can be completed. That process was expected to take about 10 days. Labels: epic, movies, new york city
Fans remembered left flowers and candles outside his Manhattan apartment on Wednesday. News of the death stunned family, fans and colleagues.
"Working with Heath was one of the purest joys of my life," said Ang Lee, who directed Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain."
"He brought to the role of Ennis more than any of us could have imagined a thirst for life, for love and for truth, and a vulnerability that made everyone who knew him love him. His death is heartbreaking."
Speaking in Australia, Ledger's father called the death "tragic, untimely and accidental."
Kim Ledger called his son "down-to-earth, generous, kind-hearted, life-loving, unselfish" and "extremely inspirational to many."
"Heath has touched so many people on so many different levels during his short life," he said. "Please now respect our family's need to grieve and come to terms with our loss privately."
Khaled Ali, 41, a stage manager for a Broadway show, dropped off a candle outside Ledger's building on his way to work Wednesday morning. He said he and his fellow cast members were devastated.
"I felt a connection with him as an actor, as a fellow in the theater community," he said. "With `Brokeback Mountain' he touched me personally in telling the story of my community. It was very touching."
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More on Heath Ledger.
Ledger told The New York Times in a November interview that he "stressed out a little too much" during the Dylan film and had trouble sleeping while portraying the Joker, whom he called a "psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy." Labels: celebrity news, drugs, epic, movies
"Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night," Ledger told the newspaper. "I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going." He said he took two Ambien pills, which worked for only an hour, the paper said.
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Heath Ledger has died at the age of 28.
Labels: Austrailia, boys, celebrity news, drugs, epic, movies, new york city, obituary
NEW YORK (CBS) ? Heath Ledger, who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in the critically-acclaimed movie "Brokeback Mountain," was found dead -- possibly from a drug overdose -- Tuesday afternoon in a New York City apartment.
The Australian-born actor was just 28.
He was pronounced dead at 3:26 p.m. in an apartment on 421 Broome St. in SoHo.
Police say he was scheduled to have a massage in the apartment, and when the masseuse arrived, a housekeeper went to alert him, but instead found him in cardiac arrest and immediately called 911.
Ledger was said to be found naked at the time of his death.
The actor's death may be drug-related, and that there were pills, possibly a strong sleeping medication, found near his body. However, there was no obvious indication of suicide, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.
Police do not suspect foul play.
An autopsy was scheduled by the medical examiner for Wednesday.
Early reports said the apartment was owned by actress Mary-Kate Olsen, but a publicist for Olsen later refuted those reports.
Ledger had recently separated from actress Michelle Williams, who he met while filming "Brokeback Mountain" and became engaged to last year. The couple had an apartment in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn and had one daughter, Matilda, who was born in 2005.
Before marrying Williams, Ledger had also dated actress Naomi Watts and Heather Graham.
Most recently, Ledger was featured in the Bob Dylan biography film "I'm Not There."
He was slated to appear in the next installment of the "Batman" movies, "The Dark Knight," opposite Christian Bale as the infamous "Joker" -- becoming the first non-American to take on the role.
Of the most well-known 15 films Ledger appeared in: "The Patriot," "A Knight's Tale," and "Monster's Ball." He was also nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in "Brokeback Mountain."
In 2001, People magazine named him as one of their "50 Most Beautiful People."
According to a quote from Ledger listed on his profile on the Internet Movie Database, the star enjoyed living life one day at a time.
"I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all," he said. "I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future."
Ledger grew up in Perth, and began doing amateur theater at age 10. At 16, he moved to Sydney to pursue an acting career, quickly landing TV movie roles and guest spots on Australian television.
After several independent films and a starring role in the short-lived Fox TV series "Roar," Ledger moved to Los Angeles and co-starred in "10 Things I Hate About You," a teen comedy reworking of "The Taming of the Shrew."
Offers for other teen flicks came his way, but Ledger turned them down, preferring to remain idle than sign on for projects he didn't like.
Ledger used to shop at a neighborhood home store and children's store owned by a company called Calypso. Michelle Vella, a buyer there, said she had frequently seen Ledger with his daughter -- carrying the toddler on his shoulders, or having ice cream with her.
"It's so sad. They were really close," said Vella. "He's a very down to earth guy and an amazing father."
She said Ledger once bought a bookcase at the home store, and purchased stuffed animals and dresses for his daughter at the children's store.
He would have turned 29 on April 4.
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Elevator Hell
NILES, Ill. Two cleaning women, trapped inside a broken elevator for two days, survived on two cough drops and six aspirin until they were rescued. Beata Bartoszewicz and her mother, Roma Borowski, entered an elevator in an empty building in this Chicago suburb on Dec. 22. After the elevator doors closed, the women discovered they were stuck on the first floor of the two-story building. Labels: epic
There was no response from an emergency call alarm and the women couldn't pry open the doors, Bartoszewicz said.
Neither had a cell phone or water and the building wasn't due to open until after Christmas.
The duo became dizzy from hunger. "I was close to thinking I was going to die," Bartoszewicz said.
The women tried to sleep on their coats and used a corner of the elevator as a bathroom.
Bartoszewicz said her mother continually reassured her.
"She kept saying, `We're going to be OK, and we're going to spend Christmas Eve at home,'" the 25-year-old said.
Two days later, on Christmas Eve, an employee of the building happened to go to work. Borowski said she heard him talking on his cell phone. The women yelled for his attention and he heard them.
Fire crews freed the women an hour later.
Bartoszewicz said the moral of the story is simple: "Always take your cell phone with you."
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Apparently not ambitious enough.
Jessica Simpson may also have set a record at the box office.
Her latest film, Blonde Ambition, co-starring Luke Wilson, took in just $1,190 over the weekend. True, it was shown in only eight Texas theaters, but that's still an average of less than $50 per theater per day, meaning about six people showed up to see it in each location each day.
On his TV Guide Online blog, film critic Ken Fox asked, "Doesn't someone like Jessica Simpson have more than 48 friends? What about that big Texas family of hers? ... Just how bad is this thing anyway?"
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Jesus Christ, it's a lion! Get in the movie theatre next May!
Chronicles of Narnia 2: Prince Caspian trailer is out.
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Burning money in Iraq sure isn't helping.
WASHINGTON - Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day or nearly $1 million a minute. Labels: bush administration, China, democrats, economic news, epic, government, iraq war, money, republicans
What's that mean to you?
It means almost $30,000 in debt for each man, woman, child and infant in the United States.
Even if you've escaped the recent housing and credit crunches and are coping with rising fuel prices, you may still be headed for economic misery, along with the rest of the country. That's because the government is fast straining resources needed to meet interest payments on the national debt, which stands at a mind-numbing $9.13 trillion.
And like homeowners who took out adjustable-rate mortgages, the government faces the prospect of seeing this debt now at relatively low interest rates rolling over to higher rates, multiplying the financial pain.
So long as somebody is willing to keep loaning the U.S. government money, the debt is largely out of sight, out of mind.
But the interest payments keep compounding, and could in time squeeze out most other government spending leading to sharply higher taxes or a cut in basic services like Social Security and other government benefit programs. Or all of the above.
A major economic slowdown, as some economists suggest may be looming, could hasten the day of reckoning.
The national debt the total accumulation of annual budget deficits is up from $5.7 trillion when President Bush took office in January 2001 and it will top $10 trillion sometime right before or right after he leaves in January 2009.
That's $10,000,000,000,000.00, or one digit more than an odometer-style "national debt clock" near New York's Times Square can handle. When the privately owned automated clock was activated in 1989, the national debt was $2.7 trillion.
It only gets worse.
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December Secret Stash
Labels: epic, secret stash, yaoi
Well you've all been really naughty this year so I thought I'd pull out what may arguably end up being called The Best Yaoi Video Currently Available. That's right, Sensitive Pornograph. Now if you already have it, I'm sorry that this month's secret stash isn't for you. (Though you could still enjoy the fun of finding the link.)
Here are your hints!
1. It is not a password. We're not doing passwords this time.
2. It is a link you must find and click on.
3. I've actually put SEVEN of them on the site.
3a. UPDATED 12/10: Now FIVE of them are incorrect.
4. Why don't they ever show condoms in yaoi? That's DEADLY you know in real life.
5. Sensitive Pornograph? More like SINSitive pornograph.
6. The locations of the links are kinda related to what you're looking for.
Remember, don't give it away on the tag-board or any hints of any kind. Me and my mods will have to ban you if you act like a dick. And as always, if the month starts going by and I see not that many people have gotten it, I'll give more hints on the tag-board and in comments on this post.
The main thing is to have fun!
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Shota liek to RAWWWWWWK!!
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Hello Halo.
Even people who haven't played a video game since "Pac-Man" have probably heard something about "Halo 3," thanks to the kind of publicity blitz usually reserved for summer movies. The "Halo 3" logo is everywhere, from Burger King wrappers and Mountain Dew bottles to the hood of a NASCAR vehicle. A life-size version of Master Chief, the game's hero, has even been enshrined at Madame Tussaud's Las Vegas museum. Labels: epic, video games
According to Microsoft, more than 10,000 stores in the United States will be opening their doors tonight at midnight, the first day "Halo 3" will be on sale. The midnight mayhem includes four major events in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Miami where gamers will get to play "Halo 3" with "local celebrities."
In 2004, when "Halo 2" arrived, it grossed $125 million in its first 24 hours on sale. That's more than the worldwide box office generated by "Spider-Man 3" in its first day in theaters back in May. Microsoft clearly expects "Halo 3" to surpass that figure and, perhaps more important, to goose sales of the Xbox 360, which is engaged in a fierce battle with Nintendo's Wii for home console supremacy.
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7th Annual Yaoi Boi Celebration
Going into my SEVENTH year of celebrating the love for the beauty of the animated boy on boy action, I'm very happy the way the site has been growing in popularity. I've doubled my unique visitors in the last year and that is absolutely outstanding. Labels: boys, epic, internets, manga, nakedness, personal, pixiesticks, porn, secret stash, sex, shota, yaoi
So as usual, all this week you'll see a whole lot of yaoi and shota unleashed over on the Yaoi page. We'll also add another segment of the Secret Stash video for those of you that took your hands off your penis long enough to figure out the password.
Thank you everyone for making my personal website undoubtedly one of the best places to find yaoi on the internet. While it may all be ganked from other places (and remember if you see anything that is yours and you don't want it posted, please please please email me) but pixiesticks.org is where it at with literally hundreds of gigs of yaoi and shota for your pleasure.
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If you hate yourself, you'll watch this.
Of course, that goes for any of Chris' videos to be honest. Labels: /b/, epic, internets, music, you tube
How do I fool webs?
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Yaoi Boy Week
I got my calender wrong. NEXT week is the 7th Annual Yaoi Boi Week Celebration. It's the week that leads up to Anime Weekend Atlanta. I remember that back in 2001, it got underway the second week of September. Then, the hijackers flew planes into buildings killing thousands in New York City. It was an event that for lack of better phrase, changed America. So I didn't think it appropriate at the time to be talking about animated penises and assholes and moved it to a more logical time anyway. Labels: anime, boys, epic, manga, pixiesticks, porn, secret stash, sex, shota, yaoi
So, with all that said.
Tomorrow is part 2 of the secret stash video clip.
Next week I have some Maki Murakami, I have more Mitsui Jun, and there will be more of whatever else I can dig up over here.
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Off to DragonCon 2007
I'm off to DragonCon 2007, so don't expect any updates until next Tuesday at the earliest. But when I get back, this month I'll bring you a new Secret Stash that won't please everyone. More Mitsui Jun by request. More fan submited artwork. Photos from DragonCon. A preview of Anime Weekened Atlanta. And we'll be celebrating our 7th Annual Yaoi Boi Week! Labels: anime, Candy, controversial, dragoncon, epic, fan mail, harry potter, manga, personal, pixiesticks, secret stash, shota
Have a great Labor Day Weekend, now I gotta go get ready to molest the Weasley Twins.
PS: This means I also won't be able to approve post comments. So if you make any, they won't appear until Tuesday.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Divers searched the Mississippi River for bodies still trapped beneath the twisted debris of a collapsed bridge Thursday, as finger-pointing began over a report two years ago that found the bridge was "structurally deficient."
The official death count from Wednesday evening's collapse stood at four, but Police Chief Tim Dolan said more bodies were in the water. Hospitals officials said 79 others were injured.
A strong current and low visibility hampered the search, and divers were pulled out of the water Thursday afternoon so the water could be lowered, said Inspector Jeff Storms of the sheriff's department. Twelve vehicles had been located in the river, officials said.
"We have a number of vehicles that are underneath big pieces of concrete, and we do know we have some people in those vehicles," Dolan said. "We know we do have more casualties at the scene."
As many as 30 people were reported missing, and the rescue effort had shifted to recovery.
The White House said an inspection of the 40-year-old bridge in 2005 found problems. The Interstate 35W span rated 50 on a scale of 100 for structural stability and was classified as "structurally deficient," transportation officials said.
The designation means some portions of the bridge needed to be scheduled for repair or replacement, and it was on a schedule for inspection every two years. "It didn't mean that the bridge is unsafe," Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said.
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Troubled bridge over water.
BREAKING NEWS
MINNEAPOLIS - The entire span of an interstate bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed during evening rush hour Wednesday, sending vehicles, tons of concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water.
The Interstate 35W bridge, which spans between Minneapolis and St. Paul, was under construction when it broke into several huge sections.
It was not clear how many people were injured. A burning truck and a school bus clung to one slanted slab, while at least eight cars and a truck were submerged in the river.
The bus had just crossed the bridge before it crumpled into pieces, and broadcast reports indicated the children on the bus exited out the back door.
Dozens of vehicles were scattered and stacked on top of each other amid the rubble. Some people were stranded on parts of the bridge that aren't completely in the water.
Local television stations captured video of injured people being carried up the riverbank. There was no official word on injuries, but dozens of rescue vehicles were there. Divers were also in the water.
Gregory Wernick Sr., Rockford, Ill., drove over the bridge shortly before the collapse. He stopped to get a drink nearby and heard commotion so he went back.
"I figure I crossed about 10 minutes before it happened," he said. "That's just too close to call."
He was standing about 200 feet away on top of a parking ramp with large group of people.
"I've never seen anything like this," he said.
(Ed note: This is undoubtedly going to be an important story with more information coming in all the time. Prayers and thoughts go to those dealing with this tragic situation.)
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Fox News haets Anonymous
Labels: /b/, controversial, epic, harry potter, internets, myspace, raep