Horses, Art, Bananas, and How Not to Catch the Flu

Jackson Pollock is one of the artists that I love...but I always have to questions whether his stuff is actually art. I mean, anyone could just splatter paint on a canvas, right? If I had thought of that, would I be a famous painter also?

If I'm skeptical about Jackson Pollock, I'm TOTALLY skeptical about this new artist that is tearin' up the scene. Cholla, a mix of a quarter horse and mustang, is an artist. He recently won some awards at art shows. He's a horse. A horse. Look at his artwork here. Surprisingly, some of it actually looks like the title. Others, just look like a horse with a paint brush in his mouth. I think his owners are claiming that because of evolution, horses are getting smarter. Uh, if that's really truly the case, maybe we should get smarter before horses take over the world.



Need to lose wieght? Go on the banana diet and you can look like this (DISCLAIMER: I totally got this off a reputable news site. Yes, THEY posted it first, I just had to share.):

Well...maybe not exactly like that. However, in Japan, there's a new diet fad (apparently those words are uttered quite frequently). So for now, Dole is trying to deal with a huge shortage of bananas in Japan because of the new Banana Diet. Banana's now cost 20% more because an actress lost 26 lbs. on this diet (and if anyone hasn't noticed, the majority of Asian people are quite skinny already).

How it works is you eat a banana at room temperature in the morning (it doesn't say why the banana has to be at room temp, but w/e). With the banana you have tepid water. Then for lunch and dinner eat whatever. Then you can have a snack. But you MUST go to bed before midnight. And, no desserts.

The banana fad will probably only last a month or so more. In the past couple of decades, the following have also been popular: black tea fungus, oolong tea and konnyaku, baby formula, banana and boiled egg, apple, nata de coco, cocoa and chili pepper, black vinegar, carrot juice, soy milk, beer yeast and toasted soybean flour (kinako), and fermented soybean (natto). Gross.

No one wants to catch the flu. Thanks to a chain email forward (because everyone knows that those are a source of truth: quick, pass this on to 50 of your friends or you'll have bad luck for 40 years!) I know all that I need to do to stay healthy this winter.

Miss Beatrice, the church organist, was in her eighties and had never been married. She was admired for her sweetness and kindness to all. One afternoon the pastor came to call on her and she showed him into her quaint sitting room. She invited him to have a seat while she prepared tea. As he sat facing her old Hammond organ, the young minister noticed a cute glass bowl sitting on top of it. The bowl was filled with water, and in the water floated, of all things, a condom! When she returned with tea and scones, they began to chat. The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of water and its strange floater, but soon it got the better of him and he could no longer resist. 'Miss Beatrice', he said, 'I wonder if you would tell me about this?' Pointing to the bowl. 'Oh, yes,' she replied, 'Isn't it wonderful? I was walking through the Park a few months ago and I found this little package on the ground. The directions said to place it on the organ, keep it wet and that it would prevent the spread of disease. Do you know I haven't had the flu all winter.'

Now all I need is the organ.

Happy hump day.