Schadenfreude

Had enough holiday ho-ho? Then this story about a "family values" pastor who was caught with his pants down ought to cheer you up. Or try this excellent murder, also from the L.A. Times, as is this long story about the C-level celebrity crash-and-burn Blake murder.

Or if you want endless, fun, you can always go to BoingBoing, which day after day has the most interesting links on the web.

We're in Xmas cool-down here. Except for me going to church earlier today, it's been a day of hanging around, wrapping a few spare presents for people we haven't seen yet, adding up the checkbook to see if we have any money left after the holiday (having done our part for the economy once again) and watching the idiotic, condescending, off-putting and completely wrong 1965 teen movie, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, which, despite a great cast of Buster Keaton (!!), Mickey Rooney and others, manages to show exactly why the British Invasion of youth culture completely killed what Hollywood was pandering to American youth in those days. [ IMDB link | other link ]