Guys, guys, YOOO-HOOO, uh . . . there were kids at the graduation in which case, he's probably lucky (if you ask me) he ain't getting MORE jail time than he is.
Aren't there kids at evey graduation, sporting event, or other place where streeking occurs?
Guys, guys, YOOO-HOOO, uh . . . there were kids at the graduation in which case, he's probably lucky (if you ask me) he ain't getting MORE jail time than he is.
jees i didnt know nudity was THAT bad. i mean there were kids? so what? so if a kid sees a naked man... why is that so bad? its only someone naked!
Here's a news article with more information about the graduation streaking incident:
According to court documents, Russell Chmieleski, 18, of Wysox, previously pleaded guilty to indecent exposure, the most serious of the charges brought against him.
The charge was in the first degree since children under age 16 were present at the graduation, according to Bradford County District Attorney Steve Downs. Otherwise, it would have been a lesser charge.
Chmieleski was naked when he ran across the football field at Memorial Stadium in Towanda on June 11, according to Towanda police. Other students were waiting in line to receive their diplomas when Chmieleski pulled the stunt, police said.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Just in time for Halloween comes a CD from a guy more likely to inspire a holiday costume than a musical following -- William Shatner.
The one-time James T. Kirk of "Star Trek" fame has released an 11-song collection this month, a follow-up to his 1968 spoken-word debut that garnered such critical infamy it became a camp classic.
So it must be asked: Is this a trick or a treat?
"It's a treat for me," Shatner, 73, said by telephone from Los Angeles, where he was taping an episode of "Boston Legal," his latest TV show. "I hope nobody turns a trick on it."
The new album -- slyly titled "Has Been" -- once again puts Shatner's choppy, emphasis-added words to music. But this time he's penned his own lyrics and tempered the cheese quotient with a few musical friends. Ben Folds, who produced and arranged the new album and co-wrote many of the songs, wrangled guest appearances by Joe Jackson, Aimee Mann, Henry Rollins and Brad Paisley.
Still smirking?
As the music veers from lush pianos to soul, from gospel to cowboy twang, Shatner's lyrics explore, among other things, his fear of aging, the death of a loved one, reconnecting with estranged children and the fickleness of fame.
Take the title track, "Has Been," in which Shatner wrestles with critics who have called him washed up: "Has been implies failure / Not so / Has been is history / Has been was / Has been might again."
"I'm standing in front of you with my heart exposed," Shatner said in the interview. "But it's time for me to do that, and I did it willingly. If it doesn't work, it's my deficiencies."
'Interesting musically'
As is often the case with Shatner's projects, the CD seems to forever flit between self and self-parody.
Shatner recently won an Emmy for his "Practice" performance as Denny Crain, now seen on "Boston Legal."
"It's really interesting musically," said Garson Foos, president of the Shout! Factory record label, which released the album and is targeting fans of intelligent, alternative rock. "We have modest expectations but we're hopeful that we'll exceed them."
Foos, with his brother Richard, previously ran Rhino Records, a fact that made things a little sticky at first: Rhino had included two of Shatner's songs on its first "Golden Throats" album -- advertised as "embarrassing musical moments from celebrities you thought would know better."
Shatner's 1968 album "The Transformed Man" was a gold mine of such moments, a bizarre attempt to meld contemporary pop songs like "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" with excerpts from classic literature like "Hamlet."
It was a record that launched a thousand titters and more than a few dead-on impressions from comedians mocking Shatner's start-and-stop, overly dramatic phrasing. Think Kevin Pollak crooning "Mr. Tam-bou-rine maaaan!"
So when the Foos brothers approached Shatner with the idea of a new album, Shatner was wary: "I recall feeling they wanted to see if there was another self-mockery item here -- and I'm not going to go there," he said.
'Tell the truth'
Shatner called in reinforcements. Folds, a friend since the two collaborated on a song for Folds' "Fear of Pop" album, eagerly signed on -- much to the delight of the record company. Then Shatner got spooked.
"I asked Ben, 'What am I going to write?' He said 'Tell the truth.' "
Apparently, Shatner took the advice to heart. In the song "Real," he warns his fans "just because you've seen me on your TV / Doesn't mean I'm any more enlightened than you." And in "You'll Have Time," he bluntly counsels "Live life like you're gonna die / Because you're gonna / I hate to be the bearer of bad news / But you're gonna die."
It's not all gloomy, as one can expect from the Priceline pitchman.
In "I Can't Get Behind That," Shatner and Rollins playfully rail against high gas prices, student drivers, leaf blowers and car alarms. Full of mock anger, Shatner offers the line "I can't get behind so-called singers that can't carry a tune, get paid for talking, how easy is that?"
Then he pauses, reconsiders: "Well, maybe I can get behind that."
Shatner has high hopes for the album, even though he knows it may be ridiculed.
"I'd love for it to sell a lot of records," he says. "If some philistine wanted to pull a song and make fun of it, that would be all right. I would have accomplished what I set out to do."
As for whether he expects to give teenybopper artists like, say, Christina Aguilera a run for their money, Shatner is coy.
"I've got the same moves," he said, "but I'm not allowed to show them."
DEFIANCE, Ohio - Elections officials knew something was wrong when they got voter registration cards for Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, Michael Jordan and George Foreman.
They notified the Defiance County sheriff, who arrested Chad Staton on Monday on a felony charge of submitting phony voter registration forms. Investigators also were looking into allegations that he was paid with cocaine in exchange for his efforts.
Staton, 22, had fraudulently filled out more than 100 voter registration forms, Sheriff David Westrick said.
"Staton was to be paid for each registration form that he could get citizens to fill out," the sheriff said. "However, Staton himself filled out the registrations and returned them to the woman who hired him from Toledo."
Staton was charged with false registration and was released without bond pending arraignment.
No other charges had been filed in the case Monday, authorities said.
According to Westrick, the NAACP's National Voter Fund had submitted the false registrations to the elections board in Cleveland. George Forbes, Cleveland chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (news - web sites), said Monday that the voter fund operates independently from his chapter.
Officers said they interviewed a Toledo woman who claimed that she had paid Staton with cocaine for the registrations. Officers said they obtained a search warrant and took voter registrations and drug paraphernalia from her home.
The woman claimed she had been recruited by a Cleveland man to obtain voter registrations, Westrick said.
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PHILADELPHIA - Menopausal women had more sex and were happier about it when using an experimental hormone patch hailed by some as a possible female equivalent of Viagra, doctors reported Tuesday.
Women on the testosterone patch had sex about four times more than they usually did in two months compared to only one additional session for women given a fake patch containing no hormone, a study found.
Those who got real patches also reported more arousal, pleasure and orgasms, and had better self-images.
"We found an increase in activity, an increase in desire and a decrease in distress," said Dr. Robin Kroll, a Seattle gynecologist who reported results of the study Tuesday at a meeting of infertility specialists. The research was sponsored by Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, which is developing the patch, called Intrinsa, with Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.
It was the first big test of the patch in women who went through menopause naturally and complained of low sex drive. A previous study in women who became menopausal because of surgery found similar results, and the companies already have asked the federal Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) to approve its use for those women.
"The testosterone patch looks very promising. It may be the answer for what women are looking for for a libido lag in menopause," said Dr. Marian Damewood, a University of Pennsylvania gynecologist who is president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
As many as 30 million American women will have gone through natural menopause by 2005 and another 10 million will be menopausal because of having their ovaries removed, Procter & Gamble estimates.
Lack of interest in or pleasure from sex is a big problem for such women, partly because of the decline in testosterone. Even though men make far more of this hormone than women, females still need a certain amount of it to have healthy sex lives, experts say.
Taking testosterone pills isn't advised because it can cause excessive hair growth, liver complications and other problems. Testosterone creams that are applied to the inner thigh are an option, but they've gotten little scientific study, Damewood said.
She had no role in the patch study, which involved 549 women in Seattle, Denver, Boston, Canada and Australia, averaging 54 years old, who were upset because they didn't feel like having sex. They were assigned to get either hormone or placebo patches. All kept logs of their sexual activities and filled out standard questionnaires about their feelings.
Those on the hormone patch improved in all measures. Side effects were mild and reported by three out of four women in each group — mostly excess facial hair and red or irritated skin from the patch, Kroll said.
"None of those patients wanted to stop taking the testosterone," she added.
The experiment was done over six months, the longest period of time the patch has been tested.
Meanwhile, a survey of 2,000 American women sponsored by Procter & Gamble and done by the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey found that one in three naturally menopausal women reported lackluster sex lives, but only one in 10 said it upset them.
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:03 am Post subject: 'Spider-Man' Again Climbs Paris Tower
This guy is amazing. Kooky, but amazing:
PARIS - Dressed in a Spider-Man suit and using no ropes or other equipment, a French urban climber scaled the 47-story headquarters of oil giant Total on Tuesday, his second Parisian climb in less than a month.
Alain Robert, 42, who has long called himself "Spiderman," climbed the 614-foot building, located in the La Defense office park on the western edge of Paris, in just 25 minutes.
After his ascent, Robert had to pay a visit to the local police station for his feat but was released without being charged or fined, he said later.
Robert, who is renowned for climbing without ropes or other equipment, has also scaled the Eiffel Tower and more than 30 skyscrapers around the world, including New York's Empire State Building in 1994 and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia in 1997.
On Sept. 22, he scaled the 59-story Montparnasse Tower. At 689 feet, it is higher than the Total building — which he scaled in April 2003 to protest the war in Iraq (news - web sites). The building was then the headquarters of TotalFina Elf.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:53 am Post subject:
Oh my god, i didn't know that this man was so famous.
I met him saturday in a megastore, he was selling his books and posters.
And then he was waiting that I paid the parking to pay himself the parking.
He looks like an indian.
He was born in my small city ( Valence ), and came back to us to sign posters and his books. Then he climbed the tower where he lived during is childhood.
He climbs like a monkey, it's amazing.
I'm not sure, but I think his name is Alain Robert.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:05 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Avec la grande puissance vient la grande responsabilit�.
Heheh, that's great, that's great. Thanks BMWRacer, fo' real. Can you speak French, or did you turn on the French subtitles on a Spider-Man DVD (which, I admit, I don't know if it has those subtitles or not, nor do I have a copy of Spider-Man DVD next to me)?
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