Filmmaker Gordon Parks, who was the first black American photojournalist for Life magazine, the first leading black filmmaker with movies such as “The Learning Tree” and “Shaft,” died Tuesday at his home in New York today at the beautiful age of 93.

 
“Gordon was the ultimate cool,” said Richard Roundtree, who starred in 1971's “Shaft,” which spawned a series of black-oriented films. “There's no one cooler than Gordon Parks.”

He went from being a poor high-school dropout to a black pioneer, leaving a legacy of stark and unblinking photographs, genre-forging movies, novels, poetry, music and even a ballet.
 
“I think most people can do a whole awful lot more if they just try,” Parks said in 2000. “They just don't have the confidence that they can write a novel or they can write poetry or they can take pictures or paint or whatever, and so they don't do it, and they leave the planet dissatisfied with themselves.”

Apparently the Yeti does exist, it just doesn't look like we thought it did.

French zoologists have discovered a new species of crustacean, Kiwa hirsuta in the icy depths off of Easter Island. An eyeless lobster-like creature, it's appendages are covered in a fine hair-like matter. The common name, Galathee yeti, was assigned by the French scientists. (Who are obligated to assign a french word for every new discovery, lest their language become obsolete) The scientific moniker, Kiwa hirsuta loosely translates to "hairy goddess" The creature is so unlike any family of crustaceans, that it was assigned it's own family: Kiwaida, derived from Kiwa, the goddess of crustaceans in Polynesian mythology. Divers found the animal in waters 7,540 feet deep. The silky hairs were populated with species of bacterium common to deep-sea thermal vents. Unfortunately, when brought up to the surface, the creature died due to the massive change in atmospheric pressure. One step forward, two steps back-jackasses.

If you are a sick person like me who distrusts Authority, believes every conspiracy theory that comes down the pike, AND has more than 10 guns ( I said OVER 10 guns, Jellio, put your hand down!) in their specially-made bunker, than this will interest you. Or disgust you. Or both. You could be here for hours, and then you'll need a shower. Or not.

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Los Angeles -- Several news agencies are reporting that oscar-nominated actress Charlize Theron was enlisted to provide extra security for Hollywood's most glamourous evening. Although Ms. theron's dress drews gasps and guffaws for the turkey-sized blue bow on the left shoulder, insiders report the bow actually contained a TX-575 rocket launcher, that was capable of firing surface-to-air rockets with the slightest touch of a button hidden in the Ms. Theron's small clutch purse.

Oscar organizers refused to comment on the security for the event. However, one of the security managers did remark "Let's just say Charlize Theron was wearing my favorite dress of the evening," adding to speculation. newlincreative.com