Graffiti artist Banksy has pulled off an audacious stunt amid tight secrecy to stage his biggest ever exhibition.
A burned-out ice-cream van is among 100 works Banksy has installed at Bristol's museum, replacing many of the museum's regular artefacts.
The reason the museum was closed was kept secret from top council officials.
Banksy said: "This is the first show I've ever done where taxpayers' money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off."
Staged in the council-owned City Museum and Art Gallery, Banksy v Bristol Museum features animatronics, installations and a sensory display.
"This show is my vision of the future, to which many people will say: 'You should have gone to Specsavers'", Banksy added.
The exhibition and its location have been a closely-guarded secret since October, with just a couple of museum officials in the loop.
"I think we may have dragged them down to our level rather than being elevated to theirs," said Banksy of the subterfuge involved in staging the show in his home city.
A FORMER prison inmate is suing a nurse claiming he suffered an erection that lasted 55 hours as a side effect of medication he had been given. Dawud Yaduallah, 43, said he had to wait more than two days before being taken from the New York prison to hospital for treatment,
He said his daily dosage of anti-psychotic medication was increased by 25 per cent by nurse Judith Lovelace and as a side effect he had a persistent and painful erection.
This left him "irreparably injured" with "severe damage to his penis, including erectile dysfunction, inability to ejaculate and pain during sexual intercourse", court papers say.
He now needs a prosthesis "to possibly restore some sexual function" and says "his medical problems have caused difficulty in his marriage".
Ms Lovelace is alleged to have done nothing "other than telling Mr Yaduallah to apply ice to his penis".
"Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and body on Thursday morning.
The US star was in Thailand filming his latest film Stretch, according to his personal manager Chuck Binder.
Mr Binder said the news was "shocking", adding: "He was full of life, always wanting to work... a great person."
Carradine was part of an acting dynasty which included his father, John Carradine, and brothers Bruce, Keith and Robert.
The star was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, which spawned sequels in the '80s and '90s.
After a career which included more than 100 movies with directors such as Martin Scorsese and Ingmar Bergman, he recently found fame again thanks to his role in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film Kill Bill.
He is survived by his wife, Annie Bierman, and four children. "
UH OH... Sitting in a closet with rope around his neck and body? auto eroitc asphyxiation? Just a thought.
For those of you who are avid poker fans (or end up watching poker because its 3am, you're a mess, and you've seen all the Golden Girls re-runs a human can handle) you may have noticed a cute little British tart named Liv Boree amongst the see of over weight dudes with creepy 7-11 sunglasses and even creepier facial hair. Well if that's the case than Liv is mad at you because apparently Liv thinks that the press covering these poker events should be focused on the regular people and not the only good looking girl in the room. Its a great thing Liv plays poker and doesn't run a media outlet because I get the feeling that the Paint Drying Network would be more fun to watch. Liv, baby, the internet is your friend, embrace it, love it, OK? Now get back to giving the casino all your money.
When it comes to sports movies, let alone boxing movies, there is a short list of titles that have all the elements that make a well rounded movie (Rocky, Raging Bull, Cinderella Man come to mind but thats about it). Its pretty damn close to impossible to have great acting in an interesting, original story that involves realistic boxing scenarios in a film that people would actually care about. The Hammer may fall short of being an iconic, award winning boxing film (okay way short) but it does achieve what very few other movies have been able to do: be a really funny boxing movie that might be unrealistic as a whole, but contains many real elements. The premise is simple, a witty yet washed up golden glove boxer (Adam Carolla) finds himself canned from his shitty construction job, dumped by his girlfriend, and staying on his Nicaraguan buddy's couch all on on his 40th birthday. As he blows off steam in the boxing gym that he works part time in he's rediscovered by a desperate boxing coach looking to fill spots on the US boxing team for the Beijing Olympics.
Is the plot your typical unrealistic, cliched underdog sports plot we've seen too many times? Sure. But in a boxing movie that even at its most dramatic moments never really takes itself seriously, The Hammer has some great moments that might even tug at your heart strings a little. Now, make no mistake about it, this is little more than the Adam Carolla show in sports movie form. This movie is a vehicle for Carolla to do what he does best and fans of his now defunct radio show, Loveline, or his newly launched podcast will know that there are certain topics Adam rants about like no other. Boxing, construction, hispanics, "chicken shit traffic tickets", general LA assholes, etc are all brought to the table as fuel for Carolla's sharp tongued and quick witted jokes which come early and often. His supporting casts' acting across the board is below average which is unfortunate but everyone's comedic timing is fine and we're not talking about heavy material here so it easy to look past it and just enjoy the film for what it is. Is this movie going to change lives and win awards like Rocky and the rest? Hell no, but its highly entertaining, consistently laugh out loud funny and absolutely worth your time if your looking for a movie to rent while your home alone on Saturday night... again.
The Candiru is a fish-like parasite that can swim up through your urine stream into your urethra and embed it's fin-like spikes into your urethra and grow inside you.
An article in Urology by John Herman in 1973 describes this hideous little parasite. It is actually related to the catfish. It is slimy, slim and has little spikes that grow backwards and will be impossible to remove from the bladder without surgery. The average specimen grows to approximately 3 inches long and is about a quarter of an inch in diameter. It lodges itself inside the gills of a larger fish and sucks their blood to live. It can swim up into the urethra of women even easier because of the way the vagina is designed.
Where I'm from the ladies call my penis the firecracker but that's how I roll...
A Russian woman got so upset by the news that her boyfriend intended to leave her that she tied several firecrackers to his penis and exploded them, the Life.ru web-site reports.
The 33-year-old victim, identified as Alik D. had lived with the woman whose name was reported as Kira V. for about two years, but when the girlfriend started suggesting that they should marry, the man refused and said that he would rather return to his first wife with whom he had a son.
When Alik started moving out Kira suggested that they had a farewell dinner. After a hearty meal and some heavy drinking Alik fell asleep. The girlfriend tied several firecrackers to Alik’s penis and exploded them. The man was rushed to intensive care and doctors are reported to be fighting for his life.
Even if the man survives the girl will face up to 12 years imprisonment.
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Where I'm from the ladies call my penis the firecracker but that's how I roll...
