The Further Adventures of Miss Kitten

Despite the Reverend John LaVoie’s claims that his massage parlor/spa provided only faith-based “laying on of hands” services to its clients, he’s recently been convicted of 22 counts of racketeering, money-laundering and other offenses related to prostitution in a civil forfeiture.
Oh, the irony!

Massage firm steps up faith- based defense
State calls ‘laying on of hands’ claim [...]

I’ve been playing around with a website called Yearbook Yourself, where you upload a picture and it photoshops it into yearbook pictures from various years. Here’s what I came up with.

I can’t decide which one is the best.

They’ve finished blasting and have almost finished clearing it out. I for one will welcome the return of mornings not punctuated by the sounds of solid rock being drilled, small explosions, and chunks of rock being picked up and loaded into a truck:

A while ago I posted an article from The Local about a teacher who’d been reprimanded for offering cat food to her students. The teacher fought back and I’m happy to report that common sense has prevailed and the reprimand has been withdrawn:
Teacher in the clear after feeding kids cat food
Published: 24 Sep 08 15:30 [...]

This time I managed to take a couple videos of the controlled explosions:

It looks like there’s still a lot of that big rock left. I wonder how long this blasting and removal process will continue.
Here’s a much bigger blast done later on in the day:

This is the funniest video I’d seen in a looooong time.

Last week they blasted the huge rock outcropping right outside my apartment. Today they’ve been removing the larger chunks. In the following video the excavator moves a piece of rock and then attempts to lift it out of the way. You can see the back wheels of the excavator almost lift off the ground because [...]

One of the most regular geological features here in Sweden is large outcroppings of rocks. The jagged remains of huge granite boulders can often be seen lining the roads and highways, and one can clearly see the holes that had been drilled and filled with dynamite so the rock could be cleared to make way [...]

This is the thirteenth and final article I wrote for the now-defunct Grid World News website. The website was forced to shut down shortly after I finished writing the article. I submitted it and did receive a payment for it, but unfortunately this article was  never published. For more information please see the Grid World [...]

This is the 11th of thirteen articles I wrote for the now-defunct Grid World News website. Please see the Grid World News page for more information.
Get Slaughtered at the Lamb
Once upon a midnight dreary…
By Weng Merlin (my Second Life avatar name)
Be not alarmed when you first arrive at the Slaughtered Lamb Indie Club and [...]