Carly Googles: June 2011

Monday, June 27, 2011

Why does Friar Tuck always have that weird hairdo?

Search: friar tuck hair

Why: Yesterday, we watched (/slept through) the Ridley Scott / Russell Crowe Robin Hood. Friar Tuck's hair looked like this:

Other Friar Tucks:

Answer: It's called a tonsure! It sets him apart.

Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches, mystics, Buddhist novices and monks, and some Hindu temples of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics, devotees, or holy people as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem.

It's kind of like the opposite of a yarmulke, huh. He might wear a zucchetto to cover it.

The size and shape of the bald spot has varied over time. In the 20th century, "first tonsure," part of a rite for members of the Roman Catholic clergy, was to be no larger than the size of a priest's host. In England and America, clerics didn't make a bald spot for fear of persecution, but they ceremoniously cut hair. In accordance with Pope Paul VI's motu proprio Ministeria quaedam of August 15, 1972, "First tonsure is no longer conferred."

But some people still use it, like in France:

and Denver:

Source: Catholic.com, Wikipedia

The More You Know: A joke, courtesy of the forums over at Catholic.com:

Of course you heard of the cannibals who were so sick? They sent for a witch doctor from the neighboring village. He couldn't figure out what was wrong, so he said, "You have a lot of gastero-intestinal discomfort. What have you been eating?"

They said, "Just the usual -- anyone we can catch, including that Catholic missionary a few days ago?"

"What Catholic missionary?"

"Oh, you know -- a guy with a brown robe and the crown of his head shaved."

And the witch doctor asked, "How did you cook him?"

"The usual way, broiled him."

"YOU DUMMIES, that was a friar, not a broiler!"

What is yerba maté?

Search: yerba mate

Why: We are trying to eat like cavemen, so I've been going to Whole Foods a lot and trying various expensive healthy-looking things. On the back of the Guayaki Yerba Mate $3 organic "Pure Mind" drink thing:

In 1996 after our co-founding Argentine partner passed us our first mate gourd, we immediately felt the balanced, nourishing and unparalleled energy.

In college, I had some Yerba Mate Latte All Night Samba tea that I skulled during all-nighters. I pictured the plant behind it to look like coffee beans, not like a gourd.

Answer: First, the yerba maté plant is a South American evergreen shrub related to holly. The fruit is a red drupe. (Do you know this word? Drupe? More importantly, do you know the word drupelet? Every little bubble on raspberry or blackberry is called a "drupelet." Impress your friends.) The leaves of the plant contain caffeine.

The drink maté (also chimarrão or cimarrón) is just the leaves of the yerba mate plant put inside a hollowed-out calabash gourd. You drink it with a silver straw.

And there are more modern versions that use modern materials. Progressive!

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: Speaking of Whole Foods / eating like cavemen, if you like to make homemade kale chips single every night (and why wouldn't you?), try these awesome things from Kaia.

They are crunchy as all get-out, super tasty, and sickeningly good for you.

Who are America's Most Wanted?

Search: america's most wanted top 10

Why: They caught Whitey Bulger, who I was coincidentally just researching just days ago because I saw this on the Internets:

Topic: I think I found "Whitey" Bulger

The answer was right in front of our faces all along:

(That is Dr. Christian Shephard.)

When we all said we didn't know who Whitey Bulger is (except those of us who researched him in relation to The Departed), Ace was all:

You people didn't know who Whitey Bulger was!?

Whaaaaat?

You don't keep up with America's most wanted? How would you identify criminals!?

I guess that's a good point.

Answer: Well, the good news is that there are only 8 (because 2 of them have been caught!!). The bad news is that the FBI website insists on spelling Osama Bin Laden's name like Usama. What in the.

Here they are. Keep your eyes peeled!

Jason Derek Brown - 5'10, 175 lbs., b. 1969
(has ties in California, Arizona, and Utah; speaks fluent French)

Wanted for murder and armed robbery in Phoenix, Arizona. During November of 2004, Brown allegedly shot and killed an armored car guard outside a movie theater and then fled with the money.

Robert William Fisher - 6', 190 lbs., b. 1961
(from New York; has ties to Arizona and Florida)

Wanted for allegedly killing his wife and two young children and then blowing up the house in which they all lived in Scottsdale, Arizona in April of 2001.

Alexis Flores - 5'4, 135 lbs., b. c. 1980
(from / probably around Honduras)

Wanted for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murder of a five-year-old girl in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The girl was reported missing in late July of 2000, and later found strangled to death in a nearby apartment in early August of 2000.

Victor Manuel Gerena - 5'6, 165 lbs., b. 1968
(from NY)

Wanted in connection with the armed robbery of approximately $7 million from a security company in Connecticut in 1983. He allegedly took two security employees hostage at gunpoint and then handcuffed, bound and injected them with an unknown substance in order to further disable them.

Glen Stewart Godwin - 6', 200 lbs., b. 1958
(probably in Mexico or Central or South America)

Wanted for his 1987 escape from Folsom State Prison in California, where he was serving a lengthy sentence for murder. Later in 1987, Godwin was arrested for drug trafficking in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. After being convicted, he was sent to a prison in Guadalajara. In April of 1991, Godwin allegedly murdered a fellow inmate and then escaped five months later.

Semion Mogilevich - 5'6, 300 lbs., b. 1946
(probably in Russia, probably Moscow, but also with passports for Israel, Ukraine, and Greece)

Wanted for his alleged participation in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud thousands of investors in the stock of a public company incorporated in Canada, but headquartered in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, between 1993 and 1998. e scheme to defraud collapsed in 1998, after thousands of investors lost in excess of 150 million U.S. dollars, and Mogilevich, thought to have allegedly funded and authorized the scheme, was indicted in April of 2003. Womp womp.

Eduardo Ravelo - 5'9, 170 lbs., b. 1968
(probably in Mexico or Texas)

Wanted for his involvement in racketeering activities, conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, and conspiracy to possess heroin, cocaine and marijuana with the intent to distribute. His alleged criminal activities began in 2003.

Joe Luis Saenz - 5'11, 180 lbs., b. 1975
(from LA, probably in Mexico)

Wanted for murder, rape, and kidnapping. On July 25, 1998, he shot and killed two rival gang members in Los Angeles. Less than two weeks later, on August 5, 1998, Saenz allegedly kidnapped, raped, and murdered his girlfriend. Saenz allegedly murdered a fourth victim in October of 2008 in Los Angeles County.

Source: FBI.gov

The More You Know: But who is Whitey Bulger?

James J. Bulger is being sought for his role in numerous murders committed from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s in connection with his leadership of an organized crime group that allegedly controlled extortion, drug deals, and other illegal activities in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. He has a violent temper and is known to carry a knife at all times.

Bulger is an avid reader with an interest in history. He is known to frequent libraries and historic sites. Bulger may be taking heart medication. He maintains his physical fitness by walking on beaches and in parks with his female companion, Catherine Elizabeth Greig. Bulger and Greig love animals. Bulger has been known to alter his appearance through the use of disguises. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and Mexico.

Not James Bulger. A different guy. He was the inspiration for Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed. Remember when he threw a fistful of coke at those hookers? That was so weird.

Who is Johnny Bench?

Search: johnny bench

Why: Last night, we re-started Season 1 of "Archer," which you should totes watch if you're not already. When he walks in on his mom ... erm, J-ing O, Archer says, "Johnny Bench called..." and he leaves the room.

Then, in a complete coincidence, I'm sure:

Answer: He was the catcher for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967-83! And oops, I've totally read about this before - and even blogged about this post, "The Ten Most Obscure 'Archer' Jokes." But anyway:

In the pilot episode, Archer drops the phrase “Johnny Bench called” in order to let his mother know he caught her doing some fuzzy flounder fishing. But where exactly was he going with that?

Johnny Bench is a Hall of Fame catcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds. According to Adam Reed the joke was to imply the next line: “He wants his mitt back,” thus comparing Malory’s vajayjay to a well worn in catcher’s mitt. Funny. Decent. But the story continues.
After the initial episode aired Adam Reed was informed that Johnny Bench was also known for having giant fingers and was famous for a parlor trick he did where he held seven baseballs in one hand.
This made for a reemergence of the Bench reference aimed at Lana Kane’s monster hands (Truckasaurus!) and her “Johnny Benchian fingers” (S01E04). I feel like the second Johnny Bench joke revises the first, like a humor time loop.

We will keep our ears peeled for this second reference tonight!

Source: Warming Glow, Urban Dictionary

The More You Know: Verified!

How can I make rock candy at home?

Search: make rock candy

Why: I don't know if I've mentioned this (I have), but we've been making our own sweet tea vodka at home because Firefly, while goddamn delicious, is also goddamn $20 a bottle. The only real ingredients are tea, vodka, and simple syrup. A few weeks ago, Chandler made some simple syrup on the stove, and then we abandoned our apartment to dogsit at his sister's house.

We've been back many times, of course - poor Maddie is there all alone. Just last night, I noticed that the simple syrup - still sitting on the stove - had hardened into a thick shell with some liquid underneath. (like this, kind of)

And now I have a hankering for rock candy. (I would eat what's in there, but it has pieces of basil in it from a different experiment, and possibly a few dead flies. Plus it's been sitting there for literally 3 whole weeks.)

Answer: Oh god, it's so easy! There is a nice photo tutorial here, but I will show you how simple it is first. All you need is:

Water
Granulated sugar
Flavoring extract or oil (optional)
Food coloring (optional)
Glass jar
Thread or skewer

And here is what you do:

1. Wet the thread or skewer and roll it in the sugar. This will give the sugar crystals something to "grab" when they start forming.

2. Make some simple syrup by dissolving sugar in boiling water.

3. Add coloring & flavors. (Sidenote: We just got a SodaStream - which is awesome - and I wonder if those flavor syrups would work with this. I WONDER.)

4. Fill the jar with the simple syrup.

5. Dangle the thread or skewer inside the surp (tie it to a pencil or pin it) so it hangs about an inch above the bottom of the jar. Don't let it touch the sides.

6. Put in a cool, dark place. Crystals should start to form in 4-6 hours. Allow to grow to the size you want; larger candy can take up to a week.

Or you can just get a kit. It looks like a really good garnish, either way.

Source: Candy.About.com

The More You Know: Wait, is everyone thinking about "hankering" now? What is the origin of the word "hankering"? Me too. To "hanker" means:

c.1600, of unknown origin, probably from Flemish hankeren, related to Du. hunkeren; perhaps an intensive of M.Du. hangen "to hang." If so, the notion is of "lingering about" with longing or craving.

What happens in "The Bell Jar"?

Search: bell jar

Why: In Ryan O'Connell's essay "How to See a Shrink" on Thought Catalog:

Experience a kind of depression you’ve never felt before. Live in the bell jar, cry during commercials in the middle of the afternoon when the sun is still shining and people are outside living their lives. Or just have lots of money and like to talk about yourself. Decide to call a therapist.

I never read that book, and I don't think I want to.

Answer: Oh, it has much more narrative than I suspected. Here is a summary of the summary:

Esther Greenwood, a girl from Boston, gets a summer internship at a magazine in NYC. She is not as excited as she feels like she's supposed to be, just kind of meh about the whole thing. She has a bitchy friend Doreen, and knows a baby-machine idiot named Dodo, but she respects Betsy from Kansas who is always good and nice.

Esther goes to her job and things happen. She has a beau back home who she expects to marry. She thinks a lot about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, those communists who are scheduled for execution. She applies for a writing course by a famous author, but when she goes home, her seaward of a mom tells her she was rejected. She wants to write a novel, but she doesn't think she knows anything. After school, she doesn't want to pop out babies like Dodo or be a stenographer like all the other women of America, and the idea of not being able to do anything else bums her out.

Esther's depression makes her unable to asleep. Her mother sends her to a hot psychiatrist who Ester does not trust. He hastily diagnoses her and has her put in a hospital, where she receives electroconvulsive therapy that's is improperly administered. When she tells her mom she doesn't want to go back, her mom is all, "I knew you'd decide to be all right."

Esther gets more and more blue. She feels like she's trapped under a bell jar, struggling for breath. She half-asses some suicide attempts, and after a particularly elaborate one, she is sent to a different hospital. She is given a lady therapy, Dr. Nolan, who gives her psychotherapy and ECT done the right way.

Esther confides in Dr. Nolan that she envies the freedom men have, and that she worries about getting pregnant. Dr. Nolan hooks her up with a diaphragm, which makes Esther feel less scared about sex and having to marry the wrong man. She improves a lot, and the novel ends with her entering the room for an interview that will decide whether she can leave the hospital.

Esther.

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: The real reason I am posting this is because I just read a ton about Sylvia Plath (b. 1932) who kilt herself at age 30. Points of interest:

Almost all of the major plot points in The Bell Jar really happened to her.
She married English poet Ted Hughes on 6/16/56.

They had 2 kids, Frieda (b. 1960) and Nicholas (b. 1962).
In Aug. 1961, she finished The Bell Jar.
In July 1962, she discovered her husband having an affair with Assia Wevill, who was renting their flat in London with her [third] husband David. The couple separated.
In Oct. 1962, Plath wrote most of the poems in Ariel (published posthumously).
In Dec. 1962, she rented a flat in William Butler Yeats's old house with her two kids. It was cold and miserable; the kids were sick all the time, and she didn't have a phone.
In Jan. 1963, The Bell Jar came out, published under the pen name Victoria Lucas, and was met with critical indifference.
Plath's friend Dr. Horder saw that she was not doing well, and he prescribed her anti-depressants and arranged for her to have a live-in nurse.
On Feb. 11, 1963, Plath put wet towels under the doors of her children's rooms and stuck her head in the oven. She died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
At the time of Plath's suicide, Assia Wevill was pregnant with Hughes's child, but she terminated the pregnancy soon after. She helped Hughes care for Plath's children.
In March 1965, Wevill gave birth to a daughter nicknamed Shura while still married to David Wevill. Though Hughes never publicly claimed Shura was his daughter, he believed she was his.

On March 23, 1969, Wevill gassed herself and 4 year-old Shura in their London home using a gas stove. The two were found lying on a mattress.
In Oct. 1998, Ted Hughes died of a heart attack.
On March 16, 2009, Nicholas Hughes hanged himself at age 47.

#dark

Plath in photos: Cape Cod 1952, in Paris

What'a a 5150?

Search: 5150

Why: In Ryan O'Connell's "Top Ten Celebrity Excuses for Acting Completely Bat Shit Insane" on Thought Catalog (I wasn't exaggerating):

Liar: Mischa Barton

Bullshit Meter: 9

Remember when Mischa Barton was placed under a 51/50 and spent two weeks in a mental hospital last year? Now, she’s telling everyone that it all stemmed from having her wisdom teeth removed. She explains, “I’d had enough (of the pain) and I went to the hospital. I am terrified of needles and they wanted to pump me full of drugs and I said, “No, absolutely not. I don’t want to be here,” and got into a fight with the nurses, and that led to my 5150.’ Okay, Mischa. No one’s going to believe that you’re afraid of needles because you look like Amy Winehouse’s wacky cousin. Also, it’s hard to believe that someone could be placed under a 51/50 for simply arguing with a nurse. Liar, Liar, skinny jeans on fire!

Answer: An involuntary psychiatric hold! Police code for "crazy on the loose"!

CALIFORNIA WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE, SECTION 5150, second paragraph:

"... an application in writing stating the circumstances under which the person's condition was called to the attention of the officer, member of the attending staff, or professional person, and stating that the officer, member of the attending staff, or professional person has probable cause to believe that the person is, as a result of mental disorder, a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled."

Source: Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia

The More You Know: Also the name of the 1986 Van Halen album that featured "Why Can't This Be Love," and also the name of a song on it.

What's the origin of the name "Skid Row"?

Search: skid row

Why: In Ryan O'Connell's "Living and Working in a Very Modern Family" on Thought Catalog, which I've been reading nonstop for the last 2 weeks:

My brother’s success surprised us all. After he barely graduated high school, my parents cut him off in a tough love attempt to foster motivation, and he moved into an apartment in Skid Row with his meager savings and no job prospects. When his money quickly depleted, he decided to start a website that would feature the grossest and most disturbing porn videos. In the first month, he made $2000 by cutting deals with advertisers, and everyone in my family was just like, “What?”

Answer: From the term "skid road"! In the 19th century, loggers in the Pacific Northwest made skid roads of old railroad ties or heavy wooden planks to get felled trees down to the mill. These are tied to the corduroy road:

A type of road made by placing sand-covered logs perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area

Anyway, "skid roads" eventually became associated with the areas where loggers hung out, and everyone knows that lumberjacks are burly men's men who only like booze and hookers. Stay away from Skid Road, ladies.

Source: Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia

The More You Know: Speaking of things that I have been obsessed with in my lifetime, according to my brother, I watched this movie every day when I was a little child. Here's a relevant song!

Recognize those gals? You saw two of them every Tuesday night on "Martin." They're named after popular doo-wop girl groups of the '60s.

I want to watch some dik diks fight

Search: dik diks fight; dik diks fighting

Why: In "America's Next Top Animal Graphic Trend" on Hello Giggles:

Dik Dik
If Lady GaGa were to design a baby deer, I’m pretty sure it would look like this. Extra dainty legs, ant-eater nose, teacup stature. My favorite thing about dik diks is that they almost never fight. But when they must, dik diks just run towards each other only to stop short and aggressively shake their heads until somebody gives up. Is this not the animal kingdom’s two snaps up?? Diva!

Answer: Well, I'm not sure that's entirely true. These guys appear to be knocking skulls:

I saw some dik diks in Kenya in 2000, and o my god, they were precious.

Source: YouTube

The More You Know: I also found a bunch of videos from a Japanese guy who owns several fennec foxes and also a cat, of course. Maybe I want to name a child Fennec.

Fun fact: The fox in The Little Prince was hot probs a fennec fox.

The French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made a reference, in a letter written to his sister Didi from Cape Juby in 1918, to his raising a fennec that he adored. Saint-Exupéry also mentioned encountering a fennec when wandering in Sahara when his plane crashed there in 1935. The fennecs he had known in these two contexts are considered to have inspired the fox character in Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.

What is the theme song to "Entourage"?

Search: entourage theme

Why: I hate it. Like, so much. It's so noisy and awful. Every time it comes on - which is often, because I am always watching channels that play "Entourage" re-runs (because they are also the channels that play "Friends" re-runs) - I experience a few horrible seconds where I'm all cringing and frantic to find the remote - like Alex would be upon hearing Ludwig Van, if there were remotes in the once and future '60s.

Answer: "Superhero" by Jane's Addiction. Figures. Download it on iTunes here.

Lyrics go like:

My mind had been enabled
In the memory you overflow
Wanna be your super hero
Even if i tumble fall

I'm OK
(you have that affect on me
but i need you desperately)
You know i need you desperately

Source: Yahoo! Answers

The More You Know: That is the second worst theme song ever. The first is from "Mama's Family." Oh, the late-90s nights it ruined!

Can I read my own palm?

Search: palm reading

Why: On Thought Catalog, "Marriage and Relationships from a 20-Something's Perspective" by Caitlin Stewart Truman:

A palm reader recently informed me that I do not have a union line. However, he also told me that I don’t have a life line. Obviously this means I am a rounded-out loner freak. Take what you will from the mystics, am I right?

Answer: As good as anyone else can! This Read your own PALM! thing looked promising for a few clicks, but then it petered out. They do offer an Online Palm Reading Service, but I don't have a scanner. I am now looking at some of their other resources on the same site.

For starters:

That's all well and good, but I seriously only have exactly 3 lines on my hand. Maybe 4, if you count a wrinkle down near the bottom. Maybe I just moisturize too much?

Uch, hands are so weird.

In good news,

I will live forever (my Life Line is long and deep [twss])
and carefully (my Head Line is touching my Life Line)

but also

without luck (I have no space between my Life and Head Lines)
selfishly / with a broken heart (my Heart Line starts between my 1 & 2 fingers)
poor (I don't even have a Money Line)
single and childless (I don't have Marriage or Children Lines, either)
and with lots of complicated health problems (my Health Line is barely visible, at best)

It's looking pretty bleak.

But at least my hands are soft!

Source: OFESite

The More You Know: Did you know that the shapes and angles of your fingers and thumbs can tell you things about yourself, too? It's true! For example:

If your top knuckles are smooth and your middle ones are knotty, then you are a person whose intellect and practicality work well together. A strong instinctive drive is characteristic of well developed knuckles.

WHAT!

I want to see the leaked set photos for "The Hunger Games"

Search: Fangirltanstic for more The Hunger Games set photos

Why: I finished the 3rd book last night finally. It was... um...

Then I was looking for more casting info, and I saw this:

New set photos from The Hunger Games, Piranha 3DD, and Gravity have leaked online. The Hunger Games photos show some of the buildings like the Hall of Justice, an insignia that fans of the book will probably recognize (I’m reading the book soon! I have a long plane ride ahead of me!), and a first look at Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket.

Answer: Inneresting. I think I imagined the Hall of Justice to be a bit more grandiose. And cream-colored. All of them. Which is, I guess, why you read books first. There's also Willow Shields as Prim.

Source: FanGirltastic

The More You Know: Also,

The Piranha 3DD set photos show the water park where the sequel’s mayhem will go down (how does a freshwater fish survive in a chlorinated water park? Fuck you, that’s how) as well as some grisly corpses.

I was in a waterpark just last week! I lost my sunnies, but not my life. Shots :

Oooh! Poor Big Dave.

How did Andy Warhol die?

Search: andy warhol

Why: On Thought Catalog, "5 Celebrities Who Would've Been Perfect for the Internet" by my new favorite writer* Ryan O'Connell:

Andy would’ve ruled supreme on the web. He would’ve beat Kim Kardashian in Twitter followers, and a tweet as simple as “i like oranges” would’ve gotten, like, a thousand retweets. He would love Twitpics. There’d be photos of Viva slumped over in the corner of the Factory in a heroin daze with the caption: “viva goes zzzzz.” His Facebook fan page would have so many “like”s but the comments would be terrible. “Andy is the worst. I wish he would just die!” or “he’s sO UGlY N siCk ewwww. whatAfAG!” When he was shot by Valerie Solanas though, there would’ve been an outpour of digital love. Fans would write, “Hang in there, Andy!” and “Say hi to Edie in heaven for me…” And like the freak that he is, he would’ve tweeted from his hospital bed something like, “someone shot me today and it was brilliant….” Ugh, now that I’m thinking about it, maybe Andy would’ve just had the most annoying internet presence in the world.

*4srs, I've read like 30 of his essays in the last 48 hours.

Answer: From complications after a gall bladder surgery!

Late in his life, Warhol suffered chronic gall bladder problems. His pain intensified in January 1987 during a trip to Italy. On February 20, 1987 he was admitted to New York Hospital. The next morning his gall bladder was successfully removed and Warhol seemed to be recovering well—watching television and talking on the telephone. During that night, however, complications arose which resulted in sudden cardiac arrest. Warhol was pronounced dead at 6:31 am on Sunday, February 22, 1987. He was 58 years old.

That Solanas / shooting thing was just a blip. She was a super radical feminist in the 60s:

In 1966, she wrote a play titled Up Your Ass about a man-hating prostitute and a panhandler. In 1967, she encountered Andy Warhol outside his studio, The Factory, and asked him to produce her play. Intrigued by the title, he accepted the script for review. According to Factory lore, Warhol, whose films were often shut down by the police for obscenity, thought the script was so pornographic that it must be a police trap. He never returned it to Solanas. The script was then lost, not to be found until after Warhol's death, in the bottom of one of his lighting trunks.

Later that year, Solanas began to telephone Warhol, demanding he return the script of Up Your Ass. When Warhol admitted he had lost it, she began demanding money as payment. Warhol ignored these demands but offered her a role in I, a Man. In his book Popism: The Warhol Sixties, Warhol wrote that before she shot him, he thought Solanas was an interesting and funny person, but that her constant demands for attention made her difficult to deal with and ultimately drove him away.

Warhol did give Solanas a role in a scene in his film I, a Man (1968–1969).
On June 3, 1968, she arrived at The Factory and waited for Warhol in the lobby area. When he arrived with friends, she produced a handgun and shot at Warhol 3 times, hitting him once in the chest. She then shot art critic Mario Amaya and also tried to shoot Warhol's manager, Fred Hughes, but her gun jammed as the elevator arrived. Hughes suggested she take it and she did, leaving the Factory. Warhol barely survived; he never fully recovered and for the rest of his life wore a corset to prevent his injuries from worsening.

Later that same day, Solanas turned herself in to a NYPD officer passing by her on the street where she produced the gun and told him about the shooting. She made statements to the arresting officer and at the arraignment hearing that Warhol had "too much control" over her and that Warhol was planning to steal her work. Pleading guilty, she received a three-year sentence in a psychiatric hospital. Warhol refused to testify against her. For the rest of his life, Warhol lived in fear that Solanas would attack him again.

Source: Warhol.org

The More You Know: Andy Warhol's weird white hair was a wig, y'all.

In the mid-1950s Warhol began wearing a hairpiece, which matched his natural dark brown hair color.

In the mid-1960s he supposedly spray-painted his wig silver. Later that decade he adopted the wig that became his permanent look; it was brown in back with shades of blonde on the front and sides.

I want to see some Wacky Packages

Search: wacky packages

Why: I have been listening to a book of essays by Michael Chabon called Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son. I don't think I'm exactly the target demographic, but whatever. In one of them, he describes these things he collected - Wacky Packages - that I've never heard of. I don't have the text in front of me, but I guess they are like real packages made to be gross. A picture is worth 1,000 words.

Answer: Here are some. Wacky Packages have been produced by the Topps Company as sticker trading cards since 1967. You can still buy them here!