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Pair arrested after city shuts down alleged illegal cosmetic surgery clinic

There’s a trial going on in good ol’ FLA where two brothers are accused of bludgeoning their father with a baseball bat. The motive? They didn’t want to be spanked. What’s more, a 40 year old “family friend” is being implicated in the murder by the two kids (he went on trial last week.) His motive? He didn’t want the father to find out he had a sexual relationship with one of the kids. What the fuck?! All this story is missing is a wayward priest, some anthrax and it’s like a movie of the week gone awry.

Zodiackiller.com: Tracking the Mysterious California Serial Killer, the Zodiac.

Not that bad comediennes are immune from trouble, but isn’t Paul Poundstone the last person on Earth you would expect to be accused of lewd acts on children?

I was in San Francisco for the How Conference this week.

The highlight of the conference itself was seeing two presentations by Hillman Curtis, one of the few “big name” web/new media designers that I really respect. His presentations were insightful, fun and inspiring. Very cool.

The highlight outside of the conference was seeing Barry Bonds hit homer number 33 of the season from great (and relatively inexpensive) seats at PacBell (a great ballpark, by the way.)

I’ve been waiting to see Bonds play live for close to 12 years and on the first pitch of the first at-bat I ever saw from the future hall of famer, he hit a homerun into McCovey cove. I was as happy as a little kid on Christmas. In all honesty I was choked up for about the next half inning.

The lowlight of the week was, without a doubt, being within about fifty yards of a broad daylight shooting. Hearing the sound of gunfire while on my way to lunch (at Tu Lan, a brilliant Vietnamese restaurant,) and then scampering across the street to avoid stray bullets isn’t the sort of thing that I want to repeat.