Milton Blahyi, a former feared rebel commander in Liberia's brutal civil war, has admitted to taking part in human sacrifices as part of traditional ceremonies intended to ensure victory in battle.

He said the sacrifices "included the killing of an innocent child and plucking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat."

There had been numerous rumours of human sacrifices during the 1979-93 conflict but this is the first time anyone has admitted publicly to the practice.

Mr Blahyi, 37, is better known in Liberia as "General Butt Naked" because he went into combat with no clothes on, to scare the enemy.

He is now an Evangelist preacher, who prefers to use the name Joshua.

LIMA (AFP) - Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday.

Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

1 year ago - gorilla head melting point, pirate talk, columbo, menstrualhut 2250 (now 2369 after removing deleted members), olmec writing, man marries a goat, one word, morning scent, the shire, white and nerdy screencap, mahna mahna in porn,

2 years ago - Talk like a pirate day, Adam West is 77, taxi price hike, broke times, snarly thoughts, fiat lux, hurricane rita, list quiz-meme, saw greenelvish

3 years ago - iPatch, out with Danny, walkabout pictures, Clown doll conspiracy

4 years ago - Pirate palindrome, photo-"found", Spectre reads minds... literally, severed heads, Brazil tech (#6101)

5 years ago - mysterious phone call, myth structure of Miami kids, Newt pic, peskyvan, cej figure done, heroclix with Danny pictures, cosmic encounter

6 years ago - museum of online museums, dictum, interesting lj-er poll, inanimate object poll, I love degauss, "the incident", jimmy back on Ben stein,Halloween cookie recipe, Litter box-cookies, Adam West 73

7 years ago - word from Wu!, slackin', food for the poor

A teenager claims to have killed his room-mate then eaten parts of his brain and internal organs.

During a routine underwater expedition, these unfortunate frogmen were attacked by a giant radioactive octopus! Will their harpoon guns, daggers and pruning shears be enough to defeat this terror of the deep or will they all be eaten alive? Each set includes twelve, 2-1/2″ hard vinyl frogmen and one, 9″ soft vinyl octopus that glows in the dark!

Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies…

The great-great-grandson of Prince Otto, Germany’s Iron Chancellor and architect of the modern German state, the young von Bismarck showed early promise as a brilliant scholar, but led an exotic life of gilded aimlessness that attracted the attention of the gossip columns from the moment he arrived in Oxford in 1983 and hosted a dinner at which the severed heads of two pigs were placed at either end of the table.

When not clad in the lederhosen of his homeland, he cultivated an air of sophisticated complexity by appearing in women’s clothes, set off by lipstick and fishnet stockings.

Moment of Lyric - Thanks jpse! Here's the Mando Mafia version of Jojo the Cannibal Kid. They also do a keen version of All Along the Watchtower. (both are on the Get Up In The Cool album)

Feel free to compare to the original Lyrics posted there.

Off the top of my head -

I had a fantastic time. More detail will follow over the days ahead.

Nose-buttering is a lovely tradition, and I heartily suggest you try it, if you have the means.

Safeway maple cookies are really dang yummy.

I want to go back to MD, very, very soon. I missed seeing quite a few people, and I'd surely like to see the folks I got together with most recently again.

I've seen wagers on eternal happiness for $20 and a meal.

Notes in my sack lunch make me happy.

Bunny Suicides.

I saw an Italian burro, a bunch of sheepies and cowies and horsies and corn, headstones, churches and very little traffic, advertisement signage for folks running for office (what is a county executive?), a bunch of really swell people, a beautiful family, a cd that looks like a saw blade, a ton of strawberries, how a house with no tv positions chairs .

I had absolutely no urge to touch the internet this weekend. It just didn't enter my head. (the closest I came to computer desire is the statement "I don't know, we should google it later" came up a few times.) The only time it came up at all was while I was sitting in the airport with nothing to do except window-shop, read my e-book (The Time Traders, by Andre Norton - a book seemingly endless.. somehow I'm going through it at an impossibly slow pace)

I had amazing coach-class airline seat-luck. One free upgrade to 1st class. the other three times had either nobody in the seat next to me (saving them from my wall-like vastness), or an 11-year old kid who was small enough not to mind and able to talk about James Bond villains. (My movie knowledge and his interest in Rogue Agent)

Vintage paperback book covers. I've linked to similar sites before, but i think this is a new one.

Nice breakdown by type -

Digest Good Girl Art, Digest Good Girl Photos, Drug Theme Paperbacks, Dust jacketed Paperbacks, Film Noir Paperbacks, Hillbilly Covers, Juvenile Delinquency, Lesbian Paperbacks, Sleaze Paperbacks, Science Fiction Covers, Vest Books, Vintage Paperbacks, Women And Water

Walkabout on Sunday was good, I got more color, but think I dodged the burn bullet again. The ball cap let my nose still get a little red, however.

I walked to Mizner Park, just to check out the place, and it's fared for the worse. I used to live behind there, and liked it a lot... but now, there are no bookstores.. (liberties is gone!), the international museum of cartoon art has been gutted, and the two cool wacky-weirdo art stores have been absorbed by other type stuff. bleh.

I'd hoped to go to my old hangout, Beany's, for a veggie-cheese sammich with the vinaigrette that I love so well... but sadly, it was closed, but just for Sundays.

I abandoned Boca's blandness, and retreated to the bus stop (I was too bushed to walk for a bit), and rode back to Hillsboro... and then crossed over to the 94 and hit the Deerfield mall. I stopped off for a breather at the movies... caught "The Hills Have Eyes" and was surprised. It was better than I thought. (Make no mistake, it is about mutants killing people trapped in an out-of-the-way location, but it was done well for what it was.) Afterward, I stopped off at EB and picked up a copy of counterstrike:source on sale. I'm looking forward to playing multi with hav and kev once I polish my skills a bit.

Roaming area, (note, some was done by bus. I walked about another 8 miles.)

I made a lot of use of autostitch today, clicking on the pictures makes them larger, as usual.

( Pictures from walkabout - I saw unicorns and turtles and dolphins and killer mutants )

Current Music - mp3

Thanks, firpo!

"All the flavor of being a girl"

Now that's some bad advertising.

Or maybe the ghoul market is finally catching on... sauce for hufu?

http://www.livejournal.com/users/miss_mcdonald/9402.html

Oh, the humanity. Click to enlarge, if you dare. Man, this is what Hallowe'en is all about, minus the candy.

Where am I? What time is it? Another crash and burn sleep last night.

Deciduous - Good and Evil, Angels and Skateboarders, and a glowing banana. Nice evolving doodle.

• 1:30 p.m. - Sun Bear: See them use their long tongues to extract honey out of holes in tubes!



• 2:00 p.m. - Himalayan Black Bear: Watch him hunt and catch large fish caught here in the zoo lakes!



• 2:30 p.m. - Sloth Bear: Observe him as he tears open a termite mound (made of paper maché) to eat wax worms, meal worms and crickets!

missv

And you get in your car and drive real far.
And you drive all night and then you see a light.
And it comes right down and it lands on the ground.
And out comes the man from Mars.
And you try to run but he's got a gun.
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head.