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This article also mentions some other interesting ways the young artist (?) decided to, um, improvise onstage: The "We Can't Stop" singer began her "Bangerz" tour on Valentine's Day, and it took a decidedly unromantic turn as she simulated fellatio on a Bill Clinton impersonator and writhed around on top of a car in a sparkling marijuana-print leotard. http://www.huffingto...ref=mostpopular No word on whether that was the infamous Lewinsky thong.

So I was looking at my FB feed this morning and someone decided to throw some vegetarian propaganda my way. Nothing new, except I really didn't need to see this. Look, you guys, if there's meat coming from diseased animals then we'll take your word for it. Heck, you can describe it verbally if you want to. But when it's 7:00 in the morning and I'm planning on having a reasonably good Saturday, then this sort of thing is not going to win me over to your cause.

Warning: this is not for the squeamish and faint of stomach. It's just too awesomely gross not to share, though. Last week I noticed a small swelling on the left side of my neck, up in the hairline just under the ridge of the skull. I thought maybe it was just a pimple and thought no more of it except when I'd hit it with the hairbrush once in a while. Within 3 days the damn thing was huge - about the size of a dollar coin, angry and red (and I could feel a bigger area of hardened swelling under the surrounding skin), and it really f*ckin' HURT. I did the usual "take Aleve and ignore it and it will go away" approach I generally use with medical issues. But it didn't go away. It got worse; I couldn't sleep well because it was hard to find a comfortable position to put my head. By Thursday I wasn't really able to focus on anything else and made a doctor's appointment. It turns out it's an abscess that has actually gotten into the lymph node there; there's a cyst involved as well and that's probably where it started. Doctor didn't want to lance it at the time, but did take a culture. We're treating with antibiotics for staph and culturing to make sure it's not MRSA. I also got narcotics for pain - it was that bad, and I am super stoic about pain. I also treated it 3X/day with hot packs to try to get it to bust on its own. That didn't seem to be working, but the hot packs do feel good. Today I was enjoying a late lunch with my husband and felt something wet and warm splat on my leg (shorts today as it's nice out). I looked down and thought at first that a big glob of ketchup and mayo had dripped out of my cheeseburger and landed there. Further examination revealed that the suspicious blob did not in fact involve condiments of any kind. The abscess had, with no warning, blown open all by itself. And it wasn't just on my leg; it was all over my shoulder, down my shirt front, and in my hair. I cleaned it up as best as I could in the bathroom. It's still kind of gunky, but it feels so much better. In case you're wondering, I did finish my lunch. :)