Fraction has moved his original Poplife column to its new home.

So, we close today. Hopefully. Considering that when we did the “final” walkthrough last night at 5:30, it looked like the current occupants were only starting to move out of the house.

No, I’m not freaking out or anything. Why do you ask?

WOW

Requires Flash. But you’ve got that, don’t you?

I was kinda hoping Charlie was gonna put the beatdown on the French kid. I would have even been satisfied had Taye Diggs administered the beatdown.

Oh well. So long, Aaron.

Tongue splitting latest piercing rage

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — Ears with two, three, even five piercings are ancient history. Studs in tongues and navels are, for many, no big deal. And who doesn’t have a tattoo? These days, the attention-grabbing look is tongue-splitting: cutting the tongue to make it forked.

Those who’ve had their tongues split call it a body modification, and see it as an enhancement.

A few do it for shock value. Others describe the experience as spiritual. And many say they simply like how it looks and feels.

“When I first saw it, I thought tongue-splitting was the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my life,” says James Keen, a 19-year-old from Scottsville, Kentucky, who got his tongue cut by a local body piercer in December after a surgeon declined to do it.

Keen, who now speaks with a slight lisp, says most people don’t know he’s had it done unless he shows them.

When he does, he demonstrates how both forks of his tongue can move independently. And it’s a plus, he says, when it comes to kissing.

“People are very curious about how it feels,” says Keen, whose parents gave him their blessing — and the $500 it took to do it.

Ummmm, spiritual?? Can anyone say scary religious symbolism??

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

This Hubble Space Telescope image, released yesterday, shows two galaxies roaring toward one another at more than 6 million mph (9.7 million kilometers per hour). … Behind this spiral is a giant and obvious elliptical galaxy, seen face on (as though looking directly down at the dinner plate). It has a faint spiral structure at its center. The elliptical galaxy is called NGC 1275. It is about 235 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The collision, in progress, causes gas and dust to swirl toward the center of NGC 1275, which likely harbors a supermassive black hole at its center.