Elizabeth January 28th, 2007
News reports have confirmed that Paul McCartney has separated from his wife Heather Mills-McCartney. Mrs Mills-McCartney is said to be distraught over the split. “He has been my crutch for so long”! She said in an earlier briefing, “I have no idea why this has happened, I’m really stumped”
“She’s running around in circles”, according to a close friend, “she will need all the support she can get. It’s not like it’s easy for her to walk out on a relationship like this”
It is not known whether a pre-nuptial agreement was signed prior to the marriage. Paul McCartney is one of the richest men in the world, and if an agreement has been signed it is believed that she won’t have a leg to stand on.
Rumours abound over the split, which have suggested that infidelity may have been the cause. “She’s terrible” a source stated, “always trying to get her leg over”.
Another source has suggested that her battle with alcoholism was the cause. “Macca couldn’t handle it anymore” a friend said, “he would get home at night and find her legless”
Many have attributed this to a problem which started with the present that Paul bought her prior to the wedding. He gave her a new prosthetic leg for Christmas but that was just a stocking-filler.
A miner in Africa has an accident and loses a leg. He says to his mate “I’m f—-ed, who will want a one legged gold digger?” His mate says, “try Paul McCartney”
Finally a poem by Sir Paul McCartney:
I lay upon a grassy bank
My hands were all a quiver
I slowly removed her suspender belt and her leg fell in the river.
(It’s a very sad world we live in when Sir Paul McCartney and his wife are facing divorce and all anyone seems to want to do is make jokes about her false leg. Personally, I think it’s prosthetic.)
Elizabeth January 27th, 2007
AN Indonesian clinic is keeping a baby until his poor parents pay the bill for his delivery, a report said Thursday.
Pedicab driver Sutrisno is 2.2 million rupiah (about $320s) short of the 3.5 million rupiah bill owed to the clinic, The Jakarta Post reported.
Mr Sutrisno, 33, has paid 1.3 million rupiah to the Murni Asih clinic near Jakarta after borrowing from friends.
“I don’t know where I’ll get another 2.2 million rupiah from,” he said.
The clinic in Bojong Nangka allowed his wife Sumarni, 30, to leave after she gave birth last week but is keeping the baby boy until the bill is paid, the Post said.
“We’ll take care of the baby and will return him to his parents as soon as they’ve paid the 3.5 million rupiah in full,” clinic spokesman Fendi Sihombing told the Post.
He said the parents had initially agreed to the arrangement.
“We didn’t take the baby hostage,” he said.
via news.com.au
Elizabeth January 26th, 2007
Elden is a neighbour who talks to me through my window early in the morning.
Elizabeth January 26th, 2007
Gotye has finally made a video for one of my favourite songs, Hearts A Mess. It’s super cute, check it out.
If the embedded movie doesn’t work for some reason, you can see it at their site.
Elizabeth January 25th, 2007
This essay was written by an 8th grader in Pittsburgh in the spring of 2004. The assignment was to pick an endangered species, and explain why protecting it is important. The typos and formatting are preserved from the original. To my knowledge, no aspect of the essay has been altered.
via Something Awful
Richard XXXXXXXX Draft 2
I shouldn’t do shit. I don’t care about them they all could die and it won’t affect my life. I know a lot about them but I don’t need to think about them. They’re just a waste of time koalas are stupid they don’t help me with shit so why should I help them. If they all die there will be more room for the panthers and all the other hard animals. Koalas are weak a pit will get rid of their whole fucking family. That’s why I don’t like koalas.
Koalas have sharp claws but they are weak. They all small and fat and they be climing trees. I hope a storm just come while theyjust chilling up in the tree thinking they is hard and they’re will all just fall off. They just break they neck and shit. When they fall they claws are going to fall off and they going to be crying like some little bitches.
Koalas aren’t hard they some little bitches. They start climbing up the tree soon as they see a deer from like 50feet away. They stupid as hell they should put their brain in their pouch and put the kid in they ten they’re be able to think better. They try to be in the fucking kangaroo family. They weak as hell, talking bout they got a pouch a kangaroo so they their cousins and shit. Kangaroo’s have some big ass legs and whot do a koala got? Some little ass legs, they tails is little and weak as fuck kangaroo’s got a big ass long tail that can kill a fucking koala.
If a koala goes in the water it won’t be able to breathe with its little short ass. It’d fucking drown soon aas it take one step into the water. While they at the river trying to get something to drink a bear could just come to him and snatch its ass up. It doesn’t know protection because they don’t have protection. What they little ass going to do? It can’t scratch him. The bear will beat his fucking ass.
The important think about koalas is that just don’t care about tem and let them die by all the other animals in Australia. They’re not important just let nature do what it do and kill them. Koalas do not have a place in this world there’s not enough room for all the bitches in this world. So let all the koalas that’s in the zoos and shit. Let them go and put them back with their family. If you let them all go they won’t nothing except for that’s what they was put in this world for. Now you know why koalas aren’t important. They have nothing to do except for sitting around in the trees. It’s like they just was like they was sent have to die. Koalas don’t do nothing to help anybody. Thre would be just one more relative of the kangaroo that will be six feet under. Now you know why koalas are not important because there are dumb.
And that’s the second draft…
Elizabeth January 25th, 2007
Things Meatloaf would do for love:
+ run right into hell and back.
+ never lie to you and thats a fact.
+ be there until the final act.
+ take a vow and seal a pact.
+ raise you up and help you down.
+ get right out of this god-forsaken town.
+ make it all a little less cold.
+ hold you sacred.
+ hold you tight.
+ colorize your life because you’re so sick of black and white.
+ make it all a little less old.
+ make you some magic with his own two hands.
+ build you an emerald city with grains of sand.
+ give you something you can take home.
+ cater to every fantasy you got.
+ hose you down with holy water if you get too hot.
+ take you places you’ve never known.
Things meatloaf would not do for love:
- that
(Thanks Tim! ?)
Elizabeth January 25th, 2007
A few of my first photos with the new D200.
Elizabeth January 25th, 2007
Yesterday it arrived – my brand new Nikon D200 and 50mm f/1.8 AF lens. It’s beautiful, and I feel all inspired for the first time in ages.
I loved my D70 to death, but it feels like a toy compared to my new camera. It has a magnesium alloy body, it’s fully weather sealed and the LCD screen is big and bright. Most importantly, there are dedicated buttons for settings that I could only access via the menu on my D70. Major design improvement in that regard.
Plus, I can shoot at ISO 100 for the first time since shooting film, and I didn’t realise until yesterday just how important that can be. Shooting with my new prime lens has also made me truly appreciate the value of speed in a lens. The next item on my wishlist is probably the 18-200mm VR, but at close to AU$1000 I have a feeling I’ll be waiting a little while.
I’m so excited that I don’t even care that I’ll be living on 2 minute noodles for the next few months 
Elizabeth January 15th, 2007
Times Square, NYC. Click the image to view a larger version at deviantART (opens in new window).
Elizabeth January 13th, 2007
The One Million Masterpiece project is a fund-raising initiative for various international charities. It seeks to create one collaborative work from one million little square drawings, and raise US$6.5m in the process. If all goes well, it should also break world records.
Some people write little messages to their friends, and others draw stunning works of art. It doesn’t matter which category you fall into – what’s important is that money is being raised for a good cause, and you’re contributing to a little piece of history.
Go and contribute something yourself, and throw a few dollars their way. It’s good for the soul!
I’ve put my favourite one behind this link, because the animation is a serious memory hogger. Enjoy!
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Elizabeth January 12th, 2007
Elizabeth January 12th, 2007
It wasn’t so long ago that I began a new blog, on a different domain. I found out about a month-long challenge called National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) in November, and quickly threw together a blog in time to participate. 2006 was the year I decided to keep a paper journal each day, and I saw NaBloPoMo as an opportunity to revive my online blogging.
It worked, but once the month was up I quickly lost my momentum again. I didn’t have much of an audience, and sitting down to write into the great abyss was just a chore.
This time I’m taking a new approach. My old site, Scarlet Arts, will become the online store and portfolio that I’ve been talking about for the past 2 years. This blog at Scarlet Words will have a dual purpose – it will serve as a record for all the neat stuff I find online that I can’t easily incorporate into my paper journal, and a discussion place for interesting issues in news and current affairs. I figure that having selfish reasons for keeping this blog alive will entice me to give it the attention it needs to grow.
It will probably also house occasional photographs and stories about my life that are safe for public consumption. You can also expect regular updates on the derailing Britney Spears train, and youtube videos that make me laugh. Definitely no Rosie O’Donnell vs Donald Trump commentary, although mentioning them in this entry should improve my Google rankings.
I haven’t told anybody about this blog yet. I figured I’d start filling her up with content before announcing to my very patient friends that I have (yet another) website.
