May 11th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Can’t leave it behind …
Di Yerbury, retired vice Chancellor of Australia’s Macquarie University is battling with her successor over her past spending habits.
Her successor was so incensed that she seized 1000 pieces of art that Yerbury had tried to take with her as she left.
Yerbury states that many of the works she tried to remove were her own personal property that she had on display. The art work included a painting of a womans derrière that she said she posed for 31 years earlier, and this past February she even offered to have the then-wife of the painter testify that the posterior is indeed Yerbury’s.
In another turn of events …
A former pastor and Southern Baptist leader, Lonnie Latham, who had for years preached against homosexuality, was arrested outside a hotel in Oklahoma city in 2006. He was charged with soliciting a lewd encounter with a man. Rather than apologize, Latham demanded a trial to proclaim is constitutional right to engage in consensual sex with an adult male. In March he was acquitted.
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March 17th, 2007 at 1:09 am
This weeks Theme is Drink
This is Grossman’s Tavern in Toronto:
It’s where we’d hang out every once in a while back in my college days.
Of course, it’s a bar, so when we’d hang out there we’d have ourselves a drink or two or three … You get the picture?
The bar didn’t always look so nice. They just had it painted a year or so ago. Trish and I, and my brother happened to be downtown last summer wandering around with the rest of my family as they shopped. We’d had enough so we stopped in for a drink. It’s still a dive inside!
We sat outside on the patio, and much to my amazement the side wall of the tavern has these great murals of musicians on the side:
Even though it’s a bit of dive inside it’s still a pretty cool place to check out. Drop in sometime if you’re in Toronto.
Hey, it’s St. Patrick’s Day today. Hmmm maybe we should go to Grossmans or some other Pub and have ourselves some green beer?
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December 4th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Do you remember that I wrote about a village in India recently that had painted the whole town pink? Well … Sherrif Clint Low of Mason Washington decided to try to deter inmates from becoming repeat offenders by covering the entire county jail with a pink wash.
I guess he liked the idea!
Even the prisoners uniforms had a change of color. Prisoners now wear pink jumpsuits and pink slippers. Low dyed the uniforms after finishing painting the jail pink. He did this to stop inmates from stealing clothes from each other.
The walls are painted pink in order to keep the inmates relaxed and keep the tempers at bay. So far things are working out with no fights between the prisoners.
The re-offense rate in the county is down by 70% too. Probably because release prisoners, if they’ve gone back to a life of crime might be doing it in a different county least they get caught again. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to return to the pink jail.
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