Wednesday, October 27, 2004

I hope you all saw the Lunar Eclipse tonight! It was soooo wicked! I loved it! I wonder how they explained that phenomena back in the geo-centric era of history?

While by the beach, moon-gazing, the local crazy dude found us and wanted desperately to know if my dog "has intestines??" I said yes. "Where are they?" He introduced himself as "hot dog legs" and then told me that my finger "looks like a carrot." It sure was dark though. "Is a car crashing into a tree funny?"

Today I saw the remains of a cremated cat. I saw charred bones and everything. The coolest thing is that Mariah was 21 when she died!

Without further ado, I must introduce you all to the craziest thing that I have learned in ages! There are these cells that scientists around the world do research on called HeLa cells. They are so named because they were taken from a cervical growth of a woman in 1951 in Baltimore named Henrietta Lacks! So all these cancer cells are still alive and reproducing in dishes and test tubes around the world 53 years after her death! She was 31 when she died and left behind children, who did not even learn that they dead mother's cells were in use around the Earth until the 1970's. Read this crazy real life story here.

Oh yeah, and Cuba has now outlawed the American Dollar, which has been their quasi-official currency since the collapse of the USSR.