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JK Rowling Just Trolled Piers Morgan So Good

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Valentine’s Day: A Play in 3 Acts.

Act 1:

Act 2:

Act 3:

(curtain)

(via Jamie Ross)

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Let These Awesome Transgender Kids Show You What Their Lives Are Really Like

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Despite the strides made by the transgender community in recent years, the lives of transgender people remain largely out of sight, even taboo, for most people.

With all the misinformation, and often hateful noise, still present in society over the issue, one British documentary series is telling the real life stories of transgender youth in hopes to shed an empathetic light on what life is actually like for people making the incredibly challenging, but brave journey.

Take the story of 7-year-old Paddy from Leicester, England and her father, also named Paddy. The two engage in a simple, remarkable conversation about Paddy’s decision to transition into a girl. Watch below:

But as told by Paddy’s mother, Lorna, the transition hasn’t exactly been easy for many family members. No matter how supportive of their children’s decision, the experience for everyone involved can still be a difficult one. In the clip below, Lorna reads aloud a poem to Paddy describing a caterpillar’s choice to become a butterfly to help describe her complex feelings,

“I loved and supported still wondering why, till the day my boy said goodbye,” she reads. “Sometimes I miss my caterpillar boy, but my butterfly girl fills my heart with joy.”

“My Transgender Kid” is a part of Channel 4 in Britain’s “Born in the Wrong Body” series, which will continue in the coming weeks with different personal stories. Next up is “Girls to Men” and it will feature 21-year-old Jamie Raines’ stunning, three-year photo project in which he took a selfie everyday of his transition. That video has already catapulted to the number one viewed video on YouTube.

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Re-live the Kingbees’ Rockabilly Revival

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The Kingbees
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The rise of punk and new wave back in the late ’70s and early ’80s was accompanied by a mini-rockabilly revival, the most notable commercial success being Brian Setzer’s Stray Cats. Another eminently satisfying act was Los Angeles’ Kingbees, a spunky trio fronted by Jamie James, a spirited dude seemingly possessed by the ghost of Buddy Holly. There’s nothing profound on the expanded edition of this crisp 1980 debut album—just a bunch of snappy originals, including the semi-hit “My Mistake” and deft covers of Don Gibson (“Sweet Sweet Girl to Me”), Eddie Cochran (“Somethin’ Else”) and Buddy himself (“Not Fade Away”). But if you need a quick pick-me-up, check out “Shake-Bop” or “Ting-a-Ling.” They’ll put a spring in your step, guaranteed.

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Strip club flooded by oil spill in L.A.

PAH dance, anybody?

Strip club flooded by oil spill in L.A.

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A strip club was left a sticky mess Thursday morning following yet another pipeline spill.

A geyser of an estimated 10,000 gallons of oil spewed 20 to 50 feet out of a 20-inch crude pipeline at 1 a.m., leaving an oily pool in an industrial swath of Northeast Los Angeles and sending two people to the hospital with nausea. Here’s more from the L.A. Times:

Crews were able to shut off the pipeline remotely, but by the time that was done, the spill had created pools of oil, some about 40 feet wide and knee-deep in some places.

“It looked like a lake,” [fire captain Jamie] Moore said. …

Firefighters were able to largely contain the spill after contacting a nearby cement company and using loads of sand to cordon off the oil with berms, creating a dam-like structure. Tanker trucks were then able to use hoses to suck up the oil from the resulting “lagoon,” Moore said.

Four businesses were affected by street closures, but none more so than the Gentleman’s Club, which was evacuated after it was flooded with crude. Pity whatever poor soul works as a janitor there.


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10,000-gallon crude oil spill in Atwater looked ‘like a lake’, L.A. Times

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