gentlemen prefer a size 12

The UK’s Fabulous Mag recently released their “Fabulous Body Survey”, with interesting results. While the average woman is a size 14, but wishes she were a size 6, the average man prefers a size 10. (That’s translated into American sizes, which are about one size off from their British counterpart. British 16 = American 14.)
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what i’ve been reading lately

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Greene is one of those writers I’ve had on my list for a while, and I thought I’d start with this book because I loved the movie (the 2003 version with an Oscar-nominated performance by Michael Caine; not the one from the ’50s with Audey Murphy, which I hear butchered [...]

these guys are feeling pretty stupid right about now: digg users who claimed heath ledger would be TEH SUXXOR!!1! as the joker

Ledger is wrong for this. He’s always seemed to be a very two-dimensional actor, not at all convincing, and here we have him trying to handle a character as deranged and maniacal as the Joker.
-Karyyk
Almost 2 years ago to the day, the casting for The Dark Knight was announced. And thanks to the magic of [...]

my bicycle has arrived!

And joke’s on me, it’s been there since at least Wednesday afternoon. I can tell by the way the cardboard’s warped that it stood out in the dew for at least one night. But the delivery person was thoughtful enough to drag it onto the side porch, where it couldn’t be seen from the street, [...]