Gladys: The Arrival

Gladys, episode 1

With a name like Hatshepsut you better know how to party...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The mummy of an obese woman, who likely suffered from diabetes and liver cancer, has been identified as that of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's most powerful female pharoah, Egyptian archaeologists said Wednesday.

Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt in the 15th century B.C., was known for dressing like a man and wearing a false beard. But when her rule ended, all traces of her mysteriously disappeared, including her mummy.

Discovered in 1903 in the Valley of the Kings, the mummy was left on site until two months ago, when it was brought to the Cairo Museum for testing, Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said.

DNA bone samples taken from the mummy's pelvic bone and femur are being compared with the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut's grandmother, Amos Nefreteri, said molecular geneticist Yehia Zakaria Gad, who was part of Hawass' team.

The mummy identified as Hatshepsut shows an obese woman, who died in her 50s, probably had diabetes and is also believed to have had liver cancer, Hawass said. Her left hand is positioned against her chest, in a traditional sign of royalty in ancient Egypt. From CNN

Random Noise Therapy avec Tone Test

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Ananda Projects new FIREFLOWER is out now! Get it at Itunes.

"Red Carpet Massacre"

The new Duran Duran album has a name! wooooo hooo... I think... I am still a bit worried about the whole Timbaland thing and Timberlake thing and how that could really be stinky with the Secret Oktober guys. I guess we shall see what we hear - but let's all hope that Andy Taylor was wrong again. Of course, if Gwyneth Paltrow models for the cover of the album in the actual Red Carpet Massacre, it could be 40 minutes of static and I would still download it. Just saying.

Jarboe Living at Myspace

Just like Martha Stewart, but with snakes, and blood... and SWANS

M.I.A. borrows a little Buffalo Stance in new Video "Boyz"

note: oops, that one is gone from the youtube,

here's the Sri Lankan goods here me manny

From DailyKOS

PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to "Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these people, and here is what I found.

The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts. At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population, while the rate for Texas was 4.1.

But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50 states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians have among the highest divorce rates [...]

The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per thousand people." The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The Boy with the Headshots in his Eyes

The headshots are pouring in from the casting calls for THE BOY WITH THE SUN IN HIS EYES. Auditions are going to be scheduled for next week. Todd'll tape them and send me the dvd's of the auditions and we'll go from there. It's really exciting, to say the least...

Travel Goddess does Rio and Bs As!

Samantha Brown visits the two cities that I love in South America...

My Life on the Kombai D-List

Last night I had a very long intricate dream about Kathy Griffin living amongst the Kombai tribe of Papua New Guinea. I definitely need to get out more.