A Lesbian is a Lesbian is a Lesbian

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press Writer
ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women.
Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name.
One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, "insults the identity" of the people of Lesbos, who are also known as Lesbians.
"My sister can't say she is a Lesbian," said Dimitris Lambrou. "Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos," he said.
The three plaintiffs are seeking to have the group barred from using "lesbian" in its name and filed a lawsuit on April 10. The other two plaintiffs are women.
Also called Mytilene, after its capital, Lesbos is famed as the birthplace of Sappho. The island is a favored holiday destination for gay women, particularly the lyric poet's reputed home town of Eressos.
"This is not an aggressive act against gay women," Lambrou said. "Let them visit Lesbos and get married and whatever they like. We just want (the group) to remove the word lesbian from their title."
He said the plaintiffs targeted the group because it is the only officially registered gay group in Greece to use the word lesbian in its name. The case will be heard in an Athens court on June 10.
Sappho lived from the late 7th to the early 6th century B.C. and is considered one of the greatest poets of antiquity. Many of her poems, written in the first person and intended to be accompanied by music, contain passionate references to love for other women.
Lambrou said the word lesbian has only been linked with gay women in the past few decades. "But we have been Lesbians for thousands of years," said Lambrou, who publishes a small magazine on ancient Greek religion and technology that frequently criticizes the Christian Church.
Very little is known of Sappho's life. According to some ancient accounts, she was an aristocrat who married a rich merchant and had a daughter with him. One tradition says that she killed herself by jumping off a cliff over an unhappy love affair.
Lambrou says Sappho was not gay. "But even if we assume she was, how can 250,000 people of Lesbian descent — including women — be considered homosexual?"
The Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece could not be reached for comment.

Jimi Jimi Jimi

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix.
The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the footage of the music legend shot in a hotel room about 40 years ago from a memorabilia collector.
The footage features Hendrix engaging in various sexual acts with two women, according to a statement released by Vivid. The company said they consulted with several experts to authenticate the footage.
Hendrix died of a drug overdose in 1970. Seattle-based representatives for Hendrix's estate did not want to comment about the tape.

The Art of Lice

A group of German artists are living in an Isreali art galley for the next month. Not at all odd you may think. The artists are living, eating and doing other natural things in thie gallery only they are covered in lice. The artists have lice living in their hair. Lice are parasites as were Jews thought to be in Nazi Germany.

RIP: Helen Court

Hazel Court, 'scream queen' of 1950s, '60s horror films in Britain and the United States
By Bruse Weber
New York Times News Service / April 20, 2008
NEW YORK - Hazel Court, a British actress who began as a popular ingenue and became a cult figure as a "scream queen" in horror films on both sides of the Atlantic, died Tuesday in Lake Tahoe, Calif.
She was 82 and lived in Lake Tahoe.
The cause was a heart attack, said her daughter Sally Walsh of Los Angeles.
A redheaded, leggy, green-eyed beauty who was a busy film actress and a pinup girl in England in the 1950s, Miss Court went on to make dozens of guest appearances on American television.
She also had a long and varied professional life, including a second career as a sculptor.
She became best known for showing considerable cleavage and screaming bloody murder in movies such as "Devil Girl From Mars" (1954), "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957), "Doctor Blood's Coffin" (1961), and Roger Corman's treatments of three works by Edgar Allan Poe: "Premature Burial" (1962), "The Raven" (1963), and "The Masque of the Red Death" (1964).
In the last two, her best-known films, she costarred with Vincent Price.
Her scream-queen roles continued to bring her fan mail - up to 100 letters a month, Walsh said - until her death.
"She knew it wasn't serious acting," Walsh said.
"She and Vincent were extremely close, and they found humor in everything," she said. "They had a ton of fun, and they didn't take the movies seriously. But she took her fan mail seriously. She was amazed by and touched by it, and she answered every one."
Miss Court was born in Sutton Coldfield, outside Birmingham, England, on Feb. 10, 1926.
She began acting on stage as a teenager and first appeared on screen in an uncredited bit part in the 1944 film "Champagne Charlie."
Over the next decade and a half, she graduated to featured roles and then to leads, marrying her first husband, the actor Dermot Walsh, along the way.
They divorced in 1963, and she later married Don Taylor, the American actor and director, who died in 1998.
Miss Court first visited the United States in 1958, when CBS imported a television series filmed in London, a cross-cultural situation comedy called "Dick and the Duchess," in which she starred with Patrick O'Neal as an English girl married to an American man. She also filmed the first of four episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."
Miss Court eventually relocated to Los Angeles.
From 1962 to 1972 she appeared frequently on network television series.
Her acting career ended in the 1970s.
In its place she took up stone sculpturing, studying in Italy and accepting and completing commissions that included one for the library at Pennsylvania State University.
She also wrote an autobiography, "Hazel Court: Horror Queen," to be published this month by an English publisher, Tomahawk Press.
In the book, she wrote that though she might have achieved renown as an actress who shrieked and bled with abandon, she always retained the ladylike primness with which she was raised.
"Just in case I should pop off to Heaven in the night, I always remember to wash up, punch up the cushions, and straighten up after a dinner party," she wrote. "I wouldn't want everyone to come in and find it a mess. It's very English of me."

Vulgar Once Obese Talk Show Host Files For Divorce

Who else but the vilest of the vile, the fattest of the fat Star (I'm getting married)Jones could make such an ass of herself and throw the most vulgar wedding in years and now file for divorce. I guess now that she has not or maybe she has had a gastric bypass she is ready to move on. What was that guy thinking?

Vanilla Who?

Vanilla Ice was arrested for assaulting his wife in Florida. Or was it for still trying to be a celebrity. 18 years baby 18years.

I'm Dead I'm Dead I'm Dead

Brief description of putrefaction of a human body with respect to time of death
2-3 days: Staining begins on the abdomen. The body begins to swell owing to gas formation.

3-4 days: The staining spreads and veins become discoloured.

5-6 days: The abdomen swells with gas (produced by the bacteria to decompose the body), and the skin blisters.

2 weeks : The abdomen becomes very tight and swollen.

3 weeks : Tissues begin to soften. Organs and cavities are bursting. The nails fall off.

4 weeks : Soft tissues begin to liquefy, and the face becomes unrecognisable.

The exact rate of putrefaction is, of course, dependent upon many factors, such as weather, exposure, and location.

The worst of the 90's is BACK

One of the worst parts of the 90's music scene was the boy bands. I don't even know how they can be called bands as most of themplayed no intruments, but they were. Today it was announced one of the very worst of them is re-forming! The New Kids on the Block is back and has recorded again! Just when it looked like American Idol was the worst thing to ever happen to the American music scene this crap has reappeared. This time the "kids" are all in their late 30's and even more pathetic. Are they that desperate for money? Is this country that desperate for entertainment? Why? Why? Why? Who is next Milli Vanilli?

Kraftwerk's Dinger Dead

By Jonathan Cohen
NEW YORK (Billboard) - German musician Klaus Dinger, who played drums in the early days of Kraftwerk and went on to co-found Neu!, died March 21 of heart failure. He was 61. The news was not widely publicized until Neu!'s label, Gronland, announced it Wednesday.
Dinger and guitarist Michael Rother played with Kraftwerk in the early 1970s before opting to leave and form Neu! The group released three albums in rapid succession: a self-titled effort in 1972, "Neu! 2" the following year and "Neu! '75" in 1975.
Although the albums were not legally available on CD in the United States until 2001, the precise rhythms and pre-punk minimalism conjured by Dinger and Rother were a major influence on countless acts, from Sonic Youth to Tortoise and Stereolab.
Neu! disbanded after "Neu '75" but returned to the studio in 1985-86 to record new music. Material from these sessions was finally released in 1995 as "Neu! 4," although a Rother confidant later said it was only done to counter rampant bootlegging.
After Neu!, Dinger went on to form La Dusseldorf, which achieved international stardom with singles such as "Silver Cloud" and "Rheinita."
"Together with many friends of his music I will remember Klaus for his creativity as an artist and I will think about him with gratitude for his wonderful contributions to our project Neu!," Rother said in a statement.
Reuters/Billboard