“Bizarre handbags and fashion accessories created from roadkill. Critter creative Reid Peppard uses dead wildlife and pets to fashion everything from clutch bags, bracelets and coin purses to bowties and headdresses. The 29-year-old takes a needle and thread to dead crows, rats, pigeons, squirrels and even whole foxes.”
A group of friends who hired a private pool with their holiday villa were left shocked when they woke to find a moose had popped by for a dip. The group of holidaymakers immediately began filming the bizarre encounter - as the moose swims a few lengths before relaxing in the shallow end
Rob Ford, Toronto’s conservative mayor, is a wild lunatic given to making bizarre racist pronouncements and randomly slapping refrigerator magnets on cars. One reason for this is that he smokes crack cocaine. I know this because I watched him do it, on a videotape. He was fucking hiiiiigh. It’s for sale if you’ve got six figures.
It began like this: We’ve made fun of Ford before for his lunatic pronouncements and nude pictures. Last week, we got a tip from someone claiming to have a videotape of Ford smoking crack. Would we like to buy it?
WEATHERMAN: President Barack Obama checked for rain during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Thursday. (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)
POTUS umbrella holder! Good work, if you can get it.
Diddy makes his debut on “Downtown Abbey” as Lord Wolcott.
“Hold on. Put your hand on my face again one more time. K, that’s enough. I think I have room for you. I love you, Thomas. I’m Lord Wolcott. And I love everybody.”
“Photographer Rainer Schimpf photographing sharks off the coast of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.” By Rainer Schimpf
COLORFUL DECORATION: An Afghan National Police officer manned a checkpoint on the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan, Wednesday. (Anja Niedringhaus/Associated Press)
“Hip-hop star Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine are scheduled to announce Wednesday a $70-million donation to USC for a new academy that they say will give students new facilities and the tools they need to break into the rapidly changing music industry.”
They don’t call him “Dr.” for nothing, apparently. Earning that title.
A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City. The volcano spewed a new column of ash late Tuesday, with some of the material falling on three towns while glowing rocks landed on the towering mountain’s slope. Authorities have raised the alert level to ‘Yellow Phase Three,’ the fifth of a seven-stage warning system, restricting access to an area of 12 km around the volcano while preparing evacuation routes and shelters.
Some 87 journalists from around the world who died while covering the news in 2012 were honored on the Newseum’s Journalists Memorial, Washington DC
A range of colourful buildings of both Chinese and Western design have been built on a bridge in Linshi Wine Town, southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality
