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Steve Martin married girlfriend Anne Stringfield during a ceremony at his Los Angeles home, his publicist said.

Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, a friend of Martin’s, presided over Saturday’s ceremony, Alan Nierob said. Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels was Martin’s best man, he said.

Most of the roughly 75 guests — who included Tom Hanks, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Carl Reiner and Ricky Jay — were not told that he and Stringfield would wed when they were invited to his home for a “party,” Nierob said. The ensuing nuptials were a surprise to them, he said.

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Pretty cool idea, much better than panhandling and makes a difference.

Marc the Litter Guy needed money to pay the rent but he didn’t want to panhandle.

So the 30-year-old got some garbage bags and put a sign on his back saying he was cleaning the city for donations.

“I needed to make my own job, so I thought I’d go around and clean the streets. I wear a sign — it tells what I’m doing and asks for donations — but I don’t ask for money verbally, I leave it up to people,” said Marc, who has been picking up about 80 bags of garbage a day for the past 11 months.

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1,500-pound wrecking ball broke loose from a crane cable and raced downhill, smashing into several cars and injuring three people before coming to rest in the trunk of a car at an intersection Monday.

The wrecking ball, about 3 feet across, was being used to demolish part of a library at Allegheny College when the cable snapped, police said. The crane operator tried to stop it, but it rolled nearly three-quarters of a mile downhill, damaging more than a dozen vehicles as it bounced from curb to curb, police said.

Most of the damaged vehicles were parked, but the ball slammed into the rear of Alex Habay’s car stopped at an intersection, causing a chain reaction accident with two other cars at the traffic light, police said.

“All of a sudden, the back windshield exploded and I hit the car in front of me,” said Habay, 20, a junior at Allegheny College.

The ball lodged in the trunk of a car, pushing the vehicle about 20 feet.

“I got out of my car and couldn’t believe it when I walked back and saw this giant wrecking ball sitting in the trunk of the last car,” said Meadville police Officer Brian Joseph.

Officer on leave after tussle with Hot Springs skateboarders

Hot Springs police have placed an officer on administrative leave while they investigate an Internet video that appears to show him choking three teenagers who were skateboarding.

Mayor Mike Bush said investigators have talked with passers-by and business owners who saw Officer Joey Williams stop the teens on a downtown sidewalk Thursday. A YouTube video shows Williams apparently choking one teen after forcing him to the ground, while later chasing and wrestling two others while holding them in a headlock.

Bush says he does not condone the officer’s actions. Police spokesman McCrary Means says the department will release more details later.

Williams could not be immediately reached for comment.

The video shows the youths along Hot Springs’ Central Avenue, an area where city ordinance prohibits skateboarding. Voices in the background can be heard asking Williams why he was arresting the youths.

“you gonna play Zelda, you gonna play, you get over here and play….”
Zelda the twilight princess is an awesome game. It is a bit involved and takes a really long time to beat. I am just about 1/2 way through it and have already clocked in 30 + hours of play time. I have my laptop sitting on my side table on the walkthrough and plow through till I hit a save point. Slashing huge things and solving puzzles.

The story is cool, the game is beautiful. Theresa is caught up in it but is playing vicariously through me. If I play with her not around she gets bummed and asks what she missed. Kind of like she missed an episode of a show.

Cycling `repair squad’ takes to the streets over slow expansion of bike lane program

The first time the group struck was on May 30. The gang spray-painted an illegal bike lane in the Annex, between Spadina Ave. and Bathurst St., along Bloor. To make the paths appear legitimate, painters stencilled the city’s bike lane logo – a bicycle and large diamond – along the road as well.

The lines may have been sloppy, but that didn’t stop cyclists from using the lane for two weeks until the city cleaned it up last Monday.

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A piglet in Croatia born with six legs and two penises has been nicknamed Octopig by his owner.

The farmer, Ivica Seic from the village of Vrpolje, said Octopig also has two anuses.

He said that the pig was growing so fast that they had decided to keep him as a pet, daily newspaper Vecernji List reported.

UPDATED: found pic of the pig

Pissed off lady rips mans nut off, and it gets worse

She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: “That’s yours.”

I am sure you have heard (read) me complain about cats. my neighborhood is overrun with them and it irks me. Good news is some guy bought the cat house and hopefully he will clean it up. The cats get into the attic through a vent via the roof

So a study says wind turbines are hardly a threat to birdies compared to cats.

However you look at it, though, birds in the United States seem to die in turbine blades at a rate no higher than 40,000 a year. Deaths by dastardly domestic felines, on the other hand, number in the “hundreds of millions.”

I really love wind turbines. Standing under them is really cool. they sound neato. Outdoor cats suck. Indoor cats are cool if they are nice. Kind of a dog person over here.

Dude gets head run over by delivery truck, helmet toast, head fine.

Via Sockrider at FFL.

He saw the large truck, the kind that usually makes deliveries to offices, coming down Eastwood, preparing to make a right turn onto Division Street. Lipscomb said he could tell the truck wasn’t going to stop. So Lipscomb slammed on his brakes, flipping his bike and throwing himself into the street. He landed right at the intersection of Eastwood and Division.

The truck ran over his head.

“I didn’t see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head. It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head.”

His helmet, a Giro, was crushed, but Lipscomb’s head was fine.