An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said.
I like to think she looked a little something like this:

Original. 

Police arrested two men dressed like ninjas and armed with Asian martial arts weapons who said they were delivering warning letters to drug dealers and users.
Calling themselves “Shinobi warriors,” the men carried knives, throwing stars, swords, nunchucks and a bow and arrows.
Origins.

Dani spent the first seven years of her life living in a cupboard with heaps of soiled nappies, including the constantly full one she was wearing, and a cat.  Both were covered in fleas and cockroaches, as was the floor throughout the house.  When the police came to investigate reports of a girl seen once […]

My favorite customer, Marlene, first appeared at 10 a.m. on a Saturday. A youthful, 50-something firecracker in mom jeans, she marched in and scanned the shelves. “I have three sons and a husband. I need a vibrator that is completely silent. Do you hear me? Com-plete-ly si-lent.” She looked at me expectantly.
We buzzed around the […]

“Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic.” “Didn’t one of us on purpose set out to make a snuff movie.” Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. […]

It’s basically fetch - y’know, tennis ball, person throwing it, eagle bringing it back…
As part of her favourite game, the stunning bird-of-prey deploys her massive 8ft wingspan to hurtle after the balls, either catching them in mid-air or swooping to seize them from ponds.
‘One day by sheer accident Evie saw a ball on the lawn […]

Because of my younger brother I’ve got an interest in Autism, particularly Aspergers Syndrome, and have a tendency to read a lot about people with the condition.  It’s quite something to read a well written book by an ‘Aspergian’ themselves, so this was a delightful surprise.  It is coherent, beautiful explaining why Robinson wouldn’t look […]

I gacked this from Matthew Hill’s delicious little blog, as it’s preferable to cleaning at this moment in time.
Usually I steer clear of ’should’ lists, but this one had quite a diverse range in it.  And it’s better than cleaning.
So, below’s a list of ‘classic’ books.

I’m supposed to:
Look at the list and:
1) Bold those I’ve […]

Philip K Dick, somehow, was something of a genius.  I say ’somehow’ because the man slept about once a month and lived on a big ol’ bucket of drugs.  He wrote like a demon and aside from how original his ideas were, you really couldn’t tell that it nearly all came out under the influence.
His […]

Professionally, I am very much stuck in what the film industry would term development hell. I have a book and a collection of short stories coming out next year (if bluechrome is keeping to plan, at least) and am starting my Masters next month. So, right now, I have a BA (good […]