Big ups to our friends, Larry and Tina, who just created an entry video to appear on the next production of The Amazing Race. Most people we know only say they’ll tryout, but they actually did it, nine page entry form and all. We wish them the best of luck and look forward to seeing them on the show!

Only in New York. In another tiger story, police charged a Harlem housing project tenant with reckless endangerment after finding a 425-pound 20-month-old Siberian-Bengal tiger and a 5-foot-long 300-pound alligator in his apartment.

Antoine Yates, the 31-year-old owner of the animals was recovering in a nearby hospital from bite wounds inflicted by the tiger, although he had initially told police they were inflicted by a pit bull dog. Once at the hospital, anonymous calls (mostly from pissed off neighbors) alerted police to the animals.

According to authorities, the tenant had kept the tiger in the apartment since it was a 6-week-old cub. A team of animal control officers, police and Bronx Zoo workers removed the animals from the fifth-floor apartment on Saturday.

Roy Horn, superstar illusionist of the famous Siegfried and Roy Las Vegas magic show, was bit on the neck by a tiger on Friday night and was seriously injured. Immediately after the incident, Siegfried Fischbacher appeared on stage and told the 1,500 audience members the performance was canceled. Roy underwent emergency surgery last night and this morning he is still listed in critical condition.

The German-born pair perform six shows a week, 44 weeks per year and have been performing in Las Vegas for over 35 years. Their show is one of the most well known and most expensive in Las Vegas. In 2001, the duo signed a lifetime contract with the Mirage, but as of today the show is cancelled indefinitely.

Adding insult to injury, Roy Horn was attacked on the night of his 59th birthday.

“I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education up to power. And I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.”
–Arnold Schwarzenegger, On Adolph Hitler c. 1975

Arnold denounced the quote that was published by the New York Times yesterday. According to the story, in a 1975 book proposal by film producer George Butler, Schwarzenegger reportedly expressed his admiration for Hitler.

Also, according to the book transcripts as reported by the Times on Thursday, Butler considered Schwarzenegger to be a “flagrant, outspoken admirer of Hitler,” who also frequently played Nazi marching tunes and “pretended to be an S.S. officer.”

The New York Times essentially confirmed allegations that were made by Butler and the crew of Pumping Iron over 25 years ago. I think it would be a good idea to check out the entire New York Times story for refernce at their site, but you’ll have to register.

Damn, two stories on the same day in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. We’re not talking the Enquirer and the Globe here, these are the two most reputable news organizations in the country. Arnold is getting terminated.

“So I want to say to you, yes, that I have behaved badly sometimes…and to those people that I have offended, I want to say to them I am deeply sorry about that and I apologize…”
–Arnold Schwarzenegger, Earlier Today in Reply to Los Angeles Times Story

Arnold is seen here fondling another ass!

Today, the Los Angeles Times published a story about Arnold’s sexist behavior. Six different women stated that Arnold made unwelcomed sexual advances to them on movie sets from the late 1970′s through the year 2000. The Times conducted and extensive seven-week investigation before publishing the article.

Then, there is the March 2001 Premiere article written by John Connolly. In this article, boorish behavior by Arnold towards women is documented from many different sources. According to the article, during a press junket in Europe he allegedly groped one reporter’s breasts to “check if they were real.” Just for the record, John Connolly and Premiere Magazine were never sued for defamation and the magazine stands by its research for the story.

Sexist and racist? There’s also the Slate article that uncovers Arnold’s close ties to Kurt Waldheim, a widely esteemed former secretary general of the United Nations who was running for president of Austria in March 1986 when it came to light that he had participated in Nazi atrocities during World War II.

According to the same article, in the famed documentary, Pumping Iron, Arnold makes a foolish comment praising Hitler. WTF!? This calls into question all of his fundraising and donations to the Simon Weisenthal center, which now seem very duplicitous. This is proof that money can buy legitimacy even if to this day Arnold has not renounced Waldheim, a Nazi war criminal, publicly. Mind you, this is the same man that is trying to rally the minority vote in California.

After looking past Arnold’s public image, if you are a woman or a minority, you really have no business putting Arnold into office. Not to mention the question of him being qualified to perform the job. Somehow I don’t see Arnold running the State legislature effectively, but maybe that’s just me. You be the judge.

Japanese schoolgirls, and some boys for that matter, dress themselves up in weird shit all the time. In fact, there are magazines devoted to the crazy fashions, which sometimes include dressing up like video game characters, cartoon characters, or even victorian sluts, also known as Gothic Lolita clothing.

One Japanese magazine called, appropriately, Fruits, shows pictures of young people in public wearing the most outlandish shit you’ve ever seen. These are actual shots of kids in Japan–crazy. Should you ever come across a copy of this magazine, you’ll want to make sure you empty your bladder before reading it.