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A Chinese man had to have an eel surgically removed from his bladder after a mishap while undergoing an unusual spa treatment. Zhang Nan, a 56-year-old resident of Hubei province, was bathing with live eels, in the hopes that the tiny, serpentine critters would nibble away layers of dead skin, revealing more youthful-looking skin below. It's similar to those unusual pedicures that have fish eat dead skin off people's feet -- except that you're fully submerged, and you're probably naked, and there are eels all over you. Anyway, Nan felt a sharp pain, realized a 6-inch eel had entered his penis and was wriggling up through his urethra. He tried to pull it out but its tiny body was too slippery to hold, and it disappeared up his penis and into his bladder, according to the story. This, the writer points out, is not the first time such an incident has been described: A teenage boy had to undergo emergency surgery to remove a 0.79-inch fish that climbed into his urethra while he was holding it and urinating. (SUPERFLUOUS HEALTH ADVICE OF THE DAY: Don't hold live animals while you're relieving yourself. No matter how good an idea it seems at the time.) Freakish as this sort of accident sounds -- and it is, of course -- there's actually a particular type of fish that has a reputation for bladder-diving. According to a Kansas State page on parasitology, there are some types of parasitic catfishes in the Amazon (mostly in the genus Vandellia, and commonly called candiru) that have been known to invade the human urethra, often while humans are urinating into a body of water.

I had nightmares for two night just contemplating Nutso Nancy Grace's bouncing bounty of breasties and of course the heaving massiveness of them all with the cherry-tipped goodness of her luscious right milk spigot from Monday eve. All's I can say - If I wasn't 100 percent gay before - I sure am now.

2 degrees of separation saved - or something like that. M-F trannie Alexis Arquette's brother David and Cher's daughter/son, F-M trannie(where's the faux peen?)Chaz Bono were saved for at least another week when Rosemarie Clooney's nephew's WAP contract beard(three years and you're out)was booted last night from DWTHas-Been's. I loved Bruno's comment that it was like watching "a little Ewok dancing with Princess Leia"

I still use my thirty year-old Calphalon.

I love Patti Stanger. Big Lips and all. She protests that she hasn't had fillers. Lies, all lies. She's a hoot. So ballsy, brassy. Any fags best girlfriend, in my own mind. She is so, so politically incorrect that she is correct. If you haven't seen her show, watch a couple. Much better comedy than most of the scripted pablum the networks are slinging at us.

And when considering popular eateries - leaving off the Steak n Shake chocolate malt is definitely considered heresy from this corner.

Title is more than a bit misleading. Best of's? No Next. No Alinea. No way.

He's a Pinoy.

He'll have even more money to feed his crack and cocaine addictions. It is all so sad.

Every time I get a salad with my sushi, I always wonder how they do it. I love Newman's Own, lite Asian Ginger, but it still is a so-so copy of the original. I think this one is great. But I do use lite soy, lots more garlic and double up on the Tozan rice vinegar. Carrot Ginger Dressing Ingredients 2 medium carrots 1 inch chunk of fresh ginger 1 clove garlic 2 T soy sauce 1/4 C seasoned rice vinegar 3 T water 1 t sesame oil 1 t fresh cracked pepper Directions Throw all of the ingredients into a blender- and blend until smooth. Kampai!

The Accused. Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillis.Two lead actresses were both lesbians.Interesting factoid.

Can someone help me out on "the Chaz legally a man thing." Okay. He had the boobs chopped off. He takes hormones. He has the facial hair, wispt thought it is, going on. Okay. But he still has the va-jay-jay problem. From what I have read, still no faux peen. How does this go then? Lucee, you got sum 'splainin to do!

And drink enough WATER. Don't forget to hydrate!

The Peckinpah Trifecta: The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs and Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia. In a five year period, he crafted three classics of the genre. And not a clue....

Any other lovers of belly-bombers out there?

I love the stuff so much that I dunk plain crackers into the stuff and eat it that way. I love the spicy numb on my gums along with the slightly-sweet afterkick. Considered a zero calorie condiment. So it is great with a Diet Coke.

I have a confession. I am a sriracha sauce addict. This is a recent development. For most of my adult life, I have peaceably and obliviously coexisted with sriracha, overlooking it in the supermarket for Tabasco, excluding it in the kitchen as I made harissa, and bypassing it as I dabbled with south-of-the-border hot sauces. For no reason that I can think of, I ignored sriracha, aka rooster sauce — affectionately nicknamed for the rooster logo on the bottle. This changed on a recent foray into San Francisco's Chinatown, where, on an impulse, I purchased a large plastic squeeze bottle emblazoned with a flying rooster against a backdrop of fiery red sauce. I don't know what possessed me to do it, but thank goodness I did. I started out conservatively, adding a smidgen of sriracha to dips, or a dab to marinades for heat. I quickly realized that this was more than a one-note hot sauce. Its flavor is rounded and balanced, a magical elixir of sweet, salty, garlicky heat. Before I knew it, the rooster had me by its talons, and in a matter of weeks, I became a sriracha fiend. The smidgens and dabs became double-fisted squeezes and dripping spoonfuls. The table was not fully set until the squeeze bottle was centrally placed between the salt and pepper shakers. I carried breath mints in my bag to mask the telltale scent of garlic on my breath. Any savory item at all hours of the day was a candidate for a squirt of sauce. I ate sriracha on eggs and toast for breakfast, on meat and potatoes for dinner. Sriracha showed up in soups, sauces and dressings. It coated grains, vegetables and rice. Nothing to douse with a little sriracha? Nonsense. Even when the refrigerator was bare and meals unplanned, a little smear adorning a slice of bread called itself a snack. I knew I had crossed the line when one day I found myself squirting a little red sauce on dark chocolate. I looked in the mirror and took a deep breath as I wiped a trail of red sauce dribbling from my mouth. At that moment, I realized I had transformed from a sriracha-ignorant food snob into a full-blown rooster addict. Hello, my name is Lynda and I am addicted to sriracha. There: I said it. So what is at the root of all of this fuss? Traditional sriracha, named for a town in the Chonburi Province of central Thailand, is a hot chili paste used as a condiment. The sriracha that we know in the U.S. — the one with the rooster — is an inspired version of the Thai sauce with an American spin, created by David Tran, founder of Huy Fong Foods of Rosemead, Calif. Tran immigrated to the U.S. in 1980 and quickly discovered a gaping hole in the Thai hot sauce market. In anticipation of demand, and to satisfy his own cravings, Huy Fong Sriracha was born. Since then, Tran's sriracha has managed not only to satisfy any foreseen demand from the Asian community, it's managed to create a dedicated, if not delirious, following that crosses cultures, demographics and states. The secret is a wondrous concoction of red jalapeno chili peppers, vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt. It is simple and pure, with no water or artificial colors, and has a depth of flavor to match its unmistakable heat. For many, myself included, it's one-stop shopping in a squeeze bottle. But that's my opinion. I encourage you to give it a try and see for yourself. And I'll be waiting to greet you when you join the club.

The streets are like that after work on every Friday night. Lots and lots of activity there is the norm. The large high rise across the street is the headquarters for Souza Cruz Insurance and in front of that is a large center for Banco Santander. Not surprising. And sharing the other three corners are Candido Mendes Univeristy on two of them and the other with the Banco Brasil Cultural Center. One street to the north and to the other side of the Ave. Rio Branco, two very nice outdoor fish places with chopp on the Largo Santa Rita. Besides all of the places on the Ruas do Mercado and Comerio, just past the BBCC.

What do you think? Is this genius? I'm not at all sure. You know the worst thing about going on vacation? Writing your out-of-office email message. It's always one of the last things on the to-do list along with buying mini-toothpaste, and it's definitely the least fun. Do you leave contact information? Do you overstate or undersell said contact information's emergency purposes? Do you point people to a poor, helpless co-worker in your absence who will probably resent you the entire time you're gone? These and many other questions (like, is saying where you're going TMI?) plague me the night before I'm headed out of town. Thankfully, Gizmodo has provided us neurotics with the perfect specimen of an out-of-office email message. They found a vacation auto-reply of a guy named Josh Kopelman, that will now serve as my model for all future away messages—give or take a few key details. Josh's stroke of genius in full: I am currently out of the office on vacation. I know I’m supposed to say that I’ll have limited access to email and won’t be able to respond until I return — but that’s not true. My blackberry will be with me and I can respond if I need to. And I recognize that I’ll probably need to interrupt my vacation from time to time to deal with something urgent. That said, I promised my wife that I am going to try to disconnect, get away and enjoy our vacation as much as possible. So, I’m going to experiment with something new. I’m going to leave the decision in your hands: * If your email truly is urgent and you need a response while I’m on vacation, please resend it to interruptyourvacation@[redacted].com and I’ll try to respond to it promptly. * If you think someone else at [the company] might be able to help you, feel free to email my assistant, and she’ll try to point you in the right direction. · Otherwise, I’ll respond when I return… Warm regards, Josh Let's examine what Josh has done. First he's humanized the auto-reply robot message. Second he's implied that not only would you be interrupting his vacation if you reach out to him, but you'd also be upsetting his wife, which somehow feels much worse. Thirdly, he's created an email account that forces users to write the words "interrupt your vacation" in order to follow through with the disturbance, just in case someone has forgotten what they're about to do. Josh, you are a psychological mastermind. Hat's off.

And not to forget, Metta World Peace, who began his professional career one of Da Bulls! Who the fuck is Hope Solo? And does she have siblings Peace and Charity? Kind of like all of the Phoenix's: River, Leaf, Summer, Rain and Liberty Butterfly. Kind of sounds like a new douche brand?

Well, at least we have Carson from the Fab Five. Rob Kardashian - Famous only as the brother of a woman who was taped getting peed on by a third-rate rapper. Elisabetta Canalis - Famous only as the contract beard for an A-list, Academy Award-winning actor.

Reuters is reporting that bondinho which runs from the station behind the iconic Petrobras tower and the new Metropolitan Cathedral up over the Arcos de Lapa through the Santa Teresa neighborhood has derailed this afternoon. Five passengers died and more than 30 others were wounded. The little trolley, the last vestige of a once enormous citywide trolley system is a popular tourist attraction. It's always been great fun when I've taken visitors for a ride. A treat to watch people hanging off the sides as the conductor only charges fares to those actually sitting down. Hang off the side and you have a freebie. A spokesman for the fire department could not say what had caused the accident and gave no further details. Pictures in the local media showed the lower platform of the trolley off its tracks and on its side with the entire upper carriage in rubble near a power pole on the steep, winding, cobblestone streets of the Santa Teresa neighborhood. There has been a replacement program to replace and rebuild the rail beds but has been going quite slowly. And they still use the original trams with the overhead cables. Those had not been replaced. Here is a link to the history of the system: http://www.tramz.com/br/rj/st/st.html

Yesterday I took the boat in for a date with a new boyfriend. For a second date, it went pretty well. On the way back home, I passed the perfect example of Expensive Rio: Burger King Whopper With Cheese for get this,15.90Reais or about $10.00US at a new franchise in Centro. And only half a block away was a traditional, tasty half galeto(month-old, rotisserie-grilled baby chicken)meal for lunch/dinner with rice, beans, french fried and a bowl of molho de campanha, basically a bland pico de gallo for 2 Reais less. The most popular option are the regular por quilos where you can eat well for 8-10Reais or the businessman's special place for the Prato Feito/Prato Executivo everywhere for 8.50 - 12.00 Reais right now. We went to one of my favorites on the Largo do Machado. Sirio-Libano Rotisserie for Arab food. Really great hummus. Topped with chopped onion. tons of parsley. Good pita. Lots of good sucos. They do grilled chicken breast with rice and veggies, topped with fried onions. Including the service - 26Reais for the two of us. But a tourist would probably never find the place. Lunches here it's packed with a long wait for table service. Even at the counter. Dinner was almost as busy. He'd never been and was surprised as lunch is a bigger meal here than dinner at a place like this.

Perhaps disinterest?

I'm no expert on this, but have had some experience with purchases here in Brasil on either my US debit or Chase/United Mileage Plus cards. For GOL, TAM and Webjet, they do not work on-line for any of these airlines. They will take accept them at the airport where they can be slid through the machines, but on-line not. The four options that I have found are to either print out the "BOLETO BANCARIO" which is an option on their sites and pay at a loterica. Remember that the lotericas only accept payments for up to 700Reais. Otherwise, the payment needs to be made at the company's representative bank which is listed on the payment form. The second is to make the reservation and pay for it at any travel agency. Remember that you can ask for a discount if you pay with cash instead of plastic. The third is if you have a Brasilian friend with a credit/debit card, pass them the money and ask them to make the purchase for you. The final option is to go to a site like Expedia. And this drives me nuts, the Pao de Acucar group, one of the largest retail merchants here doesn't take US plastic on-line. In their stores, no rhyme or reason. The Extra in Largo do Machado sometimes takes plastic, sometimes not. The Extra in Vila Isabel at the old fabric factory, not. In Copa at the Lojas, yes they do. Like we say here about lots of stuff...."BRASIL!"