snow on the sahara

Bangkok - A panda, on loan from China, gave birth to a healthy cub Wednesday at Thailand's Chiang Mai Zoo, officials said. "Today Lin Hui delivered a cub at 10:10 am," Chiang Mai Zoo director Thanaphat Pongphamon said in a telephone interview with German Press Agency dpa.

The sex and weight of the baby panda was not immediately known as Lin Hui, the mother, refused to allow zoo officials near the baby, Thanaphat said.

The birth was hailed as a success for the Chiang Mai Zoo, 500 kilometres north of Bangkok, which has pursued every means over the past six year to make Lin Hui, 7 years old, and her mate Chuang Chuang, 8, conceive.

At one point, frustrated zoo officials resorted to showing "panda porn" videos to the bear pair in an effort to stir their passions.

Finally, artificial insemination was resorted to.

Lin Hui was pregnant for 93 days, and the birth was without complications, Thanaphat said.

The panda couple have been the zoo's main attraction since their arrival from China in October 12, 2003.

The zoo has done a profitable sideline selling panda paraphernalia, including panda poop that was snapped up like hot cakes when it was first was proffered to the public.

PANDA PORN. I desperately want to know what that looked like. You do too, don't lie. Also, selling panda poop? What's up with that?

Falling asleep hard on your futon after work and waking up the next morning = disorienting.
Realizing twenty minutes later that it's actually still the prior evening = extremely disorienting.

I feel so weird now.

So I was going over ANN coverage of Comic-con, because lord knows it can be hard to find out what's going on when you're actually there, and I noticed this:

The first Yen Plus issue effectively announces the acquisition of two new Korean manhwa within its pages: Sarasah by Ryan Ruy and One Fine Day by Sirial. The Yen Press tagline for the Sarasah series is: "Would you want the chance to go back in time to get back the love you lost?" In the story, a young girl is desperately in love with a boy who hates her. When she confesses to him, he accidentally pushes her down the stairs to her death. But she get a chance to go back in time to fix things so that the boy can fall in love with her.

I can only assume that the last sentence was truncated and left out "...so she can reject him like a dog and KICK HIS FUCKING ASS."

Lush UK releases awareness-raising Guantanamo-themed bath bomb.

I just. What.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH.



There's not enough "do not want" in the world. Then again, he looks more into the performance than Britney did.

You know you've been working on fic too long when you see a bunch of pink flower petals blow by your car and you think "Oh, I wonder who Byakuya is fighting?"

Y'know, my morning struggle for coherency would go a LOT better if this kind of thing didn't greet me:

"We're from worlds that you can only dream about, that you only wish you could see. We're from worlds that are like your own, worlds that are dangerous and exciting. It's the World of Imagination, and it created all worlds."

I knew commercial photography did a lot of airbrushing. But holy shit, dude. This is insane.