Attention, occlupanid. My father has just sent a report of what is perhaps the first known yet another case of Acute Occlupanitis from a rare endoparasitic subspecies:

Located essentially within the bowel is a U-shaped portion of hard plastic measuring 2.5 x 2 x 0.2 cm. It is consistent with a bread tie ( Read more... )

At matrushkaka's office, someone apparently took a dump in the elevator. It's definitely human feces. Coincidentally, I was just discussing the commonplace nature of inappropriate defecation with mbod yesterday. We had an inappropriate defacator at my high school for a while (as pinguim might remember). ILM had one in 2005. hardnewsinc, a former internal affairs investigator ( Read more... )

A friend is doing a "colon cleanse". This sort of thing seems especially popular in California; you either fast or go on a restrictive diet while taking a bunch of supplements in pill form, teas, or other special formulations and "after a while weird stuff comes out of your system". That's code for unusual poop-like artifacts out of the butt. ( Read more... )

Earlier this week my officemate mbod had a little gastronomic adventure. I told him that it would make a very good post but he never got around to writing about it, so I present his story with T's permission here.
On Sunday, R, G, mbod and I decided to barbecue so we went to Berkeley Bowl. At the fish counter I spotted some really nice-looking escolar ( Read more... )

On my way to pick up lunch today I walked past a restaurant with an outdoor patio where a group of people were having a baby shower. A table was piled with gifts which included a "toilet training bear ( Read more... )

Burning Man is next week. matrushkaka is leaving tomorrow, I'm leaving on Monday, and many of you will be there. I would like to share with you one of my most important secrets of having a pleasant time at Burning Man, where showering events can be few and far between ( Read more... )