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Courtney Love is taking off her clothes again. Over the weekend she tweeted several provocative photos of herself without captions or comment. Last month Courtney tweeted a photo of herself wearing nothing but underwear and lounging in the same chair pictured in the new photos.

-- ONTD

Now this is the kind of blogging friend I need more of - that girl with a certain carefree zest for life and who likes to share. It really helps to wake me up in th morning.

And what's wrong with being a sleepy Mexican?

My stomach turns just watching the video.



At any moment you feel this could slip into becoming an episode on a future installment of "The Faces of Death" videos.

“Remember five years ago when nobody was on Facebook and you didn’t know what the guy you took high school biology with was having for lunch? Remember how that was totally fine? Let’s go back to that.”

-- Jimmy Kimmel

Kimmel is asking people to unfriend those who really aren't your friends. I'm for anything that knocks Facebooks down a peg, but I appreciate that it's easier to like a person in e-life than in real life, and you can never have enough pleasant distractions. Personally, I could use a few more hotties to stalk, but unfortunately some of us cannot even measure up to others' e-standards - that's when you know you are low. It's a good thing I have these voices in my head to keep me company.

Yeah, I suppose before 1980 it really was the only game in town, but you still need some money to make it work for you. 'Poor' is tough in any color.

Two weeks old baby tiger 'Schuna' is pictured on September 5, 2010 at the zoo in Wuppertal, western Germany. As 'Schuna' was not accepted by its mother 'Mymosa', the animal is bottle-fed and brought up by keepers. By Horst Ossinger/AFP/Getty Images.

-- Andrew Sullivan

Of course not, but the season is turning, the world still goes round, and this heart still beats with it.

I saw a post on ONTD announcing a new sequel to “Arkham Asylum”, the Batman video game. I have not been one for comic book stories, but Batman, along with Spiderman, will get my attention, since I loved them in my boyhood.

I still remember crying furiously and throwing temper tantrums when Batman - the Adam West and Burt Ward TV show - was cancelled. How could the networks do such a thing? Could the universe be so unfair and cruel? It was not too many years later, with the onset of puberty and adolescence, when I would truly know the sting of how cruelly indifferent the world can be, making the biblical Job perhaps a more suitable hero for my needs. But, at the time, no longer being able to tune in to the dynamic duo, at the same bat-time and same bat-station, was bad enough.

I clicked on down to Amazon to check out the original “Arkham Asylum” game, never having paid it much attention before. I learned that the game had apparently created much ado about something and was a big success, and when I watched the video trailer, I was a bit awed - wonderful voice-acting and good graphics. This cartoon might be worth playing out.

Since Father went to some trouble to refurbish our Xbox, I should give the console a spin, which is another reason why the news of this game sequel caught my attention, as I have let the machine collect dust, letting all its powers go to waste. After “Grand Theft Auto 4”, I have not had much luck with video games. Although I enjoyed running through “Bio-Shock” and “Fallout 3”, nothing else even begins to click for me.

I am just not that thrilled at the prospect of blowing away zombies or gangsters or any other sort of bogeyman, and that certainly includes comic-book villains. I really need a sexual thrill with my gaming, though I am not very hopeful that we will be seeing much of that in my lifetime. And one can only play GTA 4 so many times.

But, as I was saying, I might give Arkham Asylum a go. Sweet sentimentality and good production values might carry us over.

Or maybe not. My reading life is so full these days. I still enjoy immersing myself in Christian literature, and when this is added onto my regular reading, my cup truly doth runneth over, such that I cannot even find the odd hour to devote to my writing life, much less find time to play video games, much much less video games based on comic books and caped superheroes.

I know what a delight it is to be enrapt in a video game, especially with today’s graphics and computing power, but I sorely wish they would open up these virtual worlds to a more adult treatment, and really make for a powerful alternative to our dreary realities.

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This video is not related to the game,
but it is similarly themed:


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It's time for that World Cup soccer thing. I am even more left out of this than I am with the Superbowl and basketball and baseball. At least I was into these American sports when I was a kid. Soccer and hockey will always be these odd foreign things, like British cricket. But I'll be seeing news on the World Cup on my Friends Page - the Net making me more of a citizen of the world. It's not all porn.