Dick
Cavett treats braggers and humblebraggers alike to a dramatic reading
of Dan Zevin's MR. HUMBLEBRAG, just one of the delightfully sarcastic
titles in the Little Miss and Mr. ME ME ME parody series:
Feel So Dirty (The Bath), original
figurative oil painting portrait by Tang Hai Guo (2012)
There is a proliferation of counterfeiting and padding, in production of
most anything, in China, today. From fake eggs to fake iPhones, as if
that's not bad enough. Worse still is how greed has driven people to
put melamine in milk, sell recycled, dirty cooking oil, and put all
sorts of dangerous chemicals, as substitutes in much of the food and
medicine that's produced in China.
It could make you feel unclean, like you need to take a bath after
circulating among such filth.
We like it for the story and for the figurative style of the portraiture
that Tang has developed. We like it even more because it isn't some
skinny girl. Like sculptor,
Xu Hong Fei, whose work we also have in the
gallery, Tang has chosen the classical voluptuous woman as his subject
in the painting. Yet, still, she is a modern woman, wearing makeup,
with toiletries, body washes and lotions lining her bathroom wall.
Adding a bit of surrealism is that the background is the sky with a few
grey clouds floating by.
Ted Richards is so obsessed with his parrots, he had a doctor hack off his ears.
David Hedges / SWNS.com
This bird-brain with a fondness for parrots had his ears surgically removed to look more like his fine feathered friends.
Ted Richards, 56, has 110 tattoos — including on his eyeballs — as
well as 50 piercings and a split tongue, all to resemble Ellie, Teaka,
Timneh, Jake and Bubi, The Sun reported.
But he went really cuckoo by having his ears removed in a six-hour
operation. Richards now wants to find a surgeon to turn his nose into a
beak. Modal TriggerPhoto: David Hedges / SWNS.com“I
think it looks really great. I love it. It’s the best thing that has
happened to me. I am so happy it’s unreal, I can’t stop looking in the
mirror,” he told The Sun. “I’ve done it because I want to look like my
parrots as much as possible. I’ve had my hair long for so many years, my
ears have been covered up.”
The retired shoe factory worker, who got his first tattoo in 1976,
lives in Hartcliffe, England, with his parrots, as well as South
American green iguana Iggy and pitbull terrier Candy. Modal TriggerPhoto: David Hedges SWNS.comHe
doesn’t want to ruffle any feathers by revealing who performed his
grotesque surgery — but is happy to say he has a new girlfriend,
Suzannah, 31.
“There’s no doubt that when they made me, they broke the mold,” he
said. “But seriously, I love the fact that I’m unique and I have always
wanted to be different.” Modal TriggerPhoto: David Hedges SWNS.com
This diet is definitely not for the squeamish, but it's reportedly been around since the dawn of the 20th century. It requires swallowing tapeworm cyst pills, so that tapeworms grow and mature inside the intestines, eating all food products until the dieter's goal weight is reached. The tapeworm is then excreted with the help of an anti-parasite pill.
Consider that the tapeworms can become massive, as long as 30 feet, which can cause numerous health problems, including headaches, vomiting, diarrhea, and even epilepsy. Obviously, this is incredibly dangerous - and, potentially deadly. At minimum it would this lead to serious nutrient deficiencies that can have lifelong complications. Not only that, you'd regain the weight back as soon as the parasite was killed.
