Finish You Collapse and Stay For Breakfast - Broken Social Scene

Coolest Picture EVER!!! This python in Malaysia just swallowed a pregnant sheep in one big gulp.

Only problem was it swallowed the thing in the middle of a road and was too full to digest the thing and slither away. Firefighters had to come pull the snake off the road where it regurgitated the sheep and slithered away. Funny thing was this was in a village that I cycled through last year on my tour, I would have loved to see that.

Dreams - The Cranberries

If you could do anyhting in the world what would it be???

That is the topic du jour. If you could do anything, at anytime, and anyplace, what would it be. The only restriction placed on this most hypothetical of questions is that it can't involve outerspace, it must take place on planet earth. What would you do if time and money were no factors? My answer...I want to view tigers in the wild jungle habitat before they are all gone.

Discuss...I'm feeling a little faclempt.

Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks

I've been struggling with what to write ever since I have been back in Canada, as everything here just seems like old hat to me, not that the hand has recovered from the spider bite. The skin has grown back, it's still rather pink and relatively new skin, not that strong like bull skin the surrounds the rest of the hand. So I think for now I am going to have to rely on news stories to poulate my blog. And god knows it won't be from N. American news sources as we all know there is nothing newsworthy coming from these places, just scare tactics.

'Paris Syndrome' leaves Japanese tourists ill

October 23, 2006 12:00am

Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper has reported.

My take on Things: God, its good to know that its not just me that think the French can be just a bit off centre sometimes. I mean the most normal French person I have met so far in my life is the crazy haired, moustachioed French girl that followed me around at night in Guangzhou trying to bang me. And thanks to the work of some good friends when I was lacking judgement, unsucessfully I might add.

Moral of the story: Thank god for friends!

Spiders - Moby

For those of you that don't know already I came home to Canada on Friday night after a 32 hour journey that took me from Singapore through Tokyo and Minneapolis on route to Saskatoon. As if the flight home wasn't enough to kill anyone else I also had something else to deal with...a poisonous spider bite on my hand. And I'm not joking!!

In Singapore, late the night before my 6am flight I went into the storage room to grab a box, when I picked the thing up I remember feeling what I thought was just a pinch, and I never really thought anything of it again. About the same time I got onto my flight to Tokyo my hand started itching, by the end of the flight I couldn't stop scratching. From Tokyo to Minnesota my hand started to itch and burn, and when I arrived it was swollen and leaking liquid out. At the airport I got it wrapped in gauze and bandages.

I arrived home in Saskatoon to find all my friends and parents waiting for me at the airport ready to celebrate, as was I. I figured my hand had waited that long already it could wait a few more hours to the morning to get it checked out. So we made a stop at home so I could get more clothes (32C in Singapore when I left, 8C in Sasktaoon), when we were there we decided to change the bandage to something smaller and not so ugly. Only when I took off the bandage I found a wound the half the size of my entire palm, swollen and completely green and oozing out pus.

To the hospital I went, and just in time cuz it wasn't long after that the cold shakes and sweating fevers began. I made it just in time. I never did see the thing, but there are two definite bite marks about 7 or 8 mm apart on the side of my hand, and the venom sure did a number on a man of my size. In the hospital I'm known as the Spider Man as they have never seen anything like it before due to the lack of poisonous spiders in Saskatchewan. I just finished my treatment of IV medications after 5 days and I seem to be on the mend, my hand has been left a little worse for the wear as you can see for yourself.

I wanted adventure, I got it!!

Paranoid Android - Radiohead

The CIA ain’t got nothing on me! $25 Million Dollar reward, and its all mine baby! I found Osama Bin Laden!!

He wasn’t in no backwater remote hut in the Afghanistan mountains or in an underground cave, you know where I found him? In the freaking Singapore Airport at 4am. Stumbling around the airport in a sleep depraved state four hours before my flight departure to Japan, in a nearly empty wing of the airport, jolting me out of my slumber were two men who could have filled in for any of Osama’s Taliban warriors. These guys were sporting full length beards, turbans, sachees, and forgive my ignorance, their ass kicking pajamas. And as the instant suspicions and fears raced through me, I thought to myself what a good job the media has done in scaring us, and turning us all into bigots. Here are two guys just sitting on an airport bench minding their own business and all I had were immediate thoughts of suspicious packages, and bombs.

Tip of the Day: Turn off your mainstream media news for the day and get some real news at www.nationalgeographic.com.

So Here We Are - Bloc Party

Cross another one off the list of 101 Things To Do Before You Die.

# 73 Be in a city while a military coup is currently occurring.

That’s right I find myself in Bangkok biding my time at the airport for about 4 hours staring out the window at downtown Bangkok while visions of tanks and armed forces dance through my head. With others pacing the halls and I in my chair, I wished my flight be on time or I'd pull out my hair.

Revealed - Blank & Jones w/ Mike Francis

The toilets here in Japan are how do I say...high tech. Not only do the lids lift up and down on their own from a sensor, some also have tvs in the bathroom as well. This pirticular one had some buttons on the wall. So as I sit there doing my business I curiously looked to see one of the buttons had a very slavic drawing of a pair of boobs with a fountain shooting up. So naturally this picqued my curiosity and I pressed it...only to here this whirring sound of a motor. But just as I thought that whatever it was was broke, a pistol shot of water raced out of the bowl and up my glory hole lifting me off the bowl. And it wasn't just a soft flow of water washing that oh so sensitive area, this was a full on chip paint off the wall power wash!!! After I had the cleanest bum hole ever but for some reason I couldn't help but feel violated!!!!!!!!!! Now I know for future reference that its not boobs and fountain, its bum and fountain.