VBS Hey! We've been fans of Vice Magazine for a while here but, as Elvis pointed out to us recently, they've started a video site as well with all kinds of grrrrreeaat Documentary films on it. We suggest the guide to sex section and a docco about OAP porn in Japan. also the Americana section has a great one on a junior taxidermist.

Santa in Jeopardy TSO sends me this story today which just about illustrates the spirit of the season as it exists today.

Mumbai Snackists Apart from the overwhelming guile and desperation that drives people to go to such flat out brazen methods as those employed in the recent attacks on the city of Mumbai, there is one factor mentioned in almost every report I read in the weekend’s papers that I can’t help getting hung up on. The attackers were heavily armed, carrying immense amounts of ammunition and, as though to give evidence that they had been premeditating a long siege – fruit and nuts. Almonds were mentioned in one report, though whether or not they were smoked, salted, raw – criminally underreported. TSO and I had a few laughs imagining the court dialogue should any of them end up in the dock: Defence Lawyer: “did you or did you not, knowingly, purchase 2 kilograms of trail mix at the Islamabad north 7-11 on the 24th of November, 2008?” Prosecution Lawyer: “Objection your honour - My colleague freely bandies about terms like ‘Trail Mix’ without a single shred of evidence of M&Ms in the evidential Zip Lock bags nor even as much as a single chocolate chip.” “I’ll thank you to stick to the term ‘Student Mix’ until further elucidation has been recorded as fact.” If these maniacs ever get their hands on the likes of power bars or vacuum-packed freeze-dried meals intended for camping, we may all have to change our way of life.