Luca Colonnese

Limited production music, fiction and comedy. Actually, very limited. To follow on Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/child_of_glass"> Child of Glass</a>
  • Cooking with Poo named oddest book title of the year

    Bangkok resident Saiyuud Diwong’s recipe cookbook ‘Cooking With Poo’ has won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year award. It should be noted that though the book does contain Thai recipes, it does not have recipes that use any actual type of excrement as an ingredient. Keep in...
  • Quantas Airlines passenger gets more proteins than she bargained for

    An Australian passenger onboard a Quantas Airlines, Victoria Cleven, 42, started eating the “nuts” without checking the bag. She simply opened it and started eating. After chewing on her mouthful for a while, she realized the nuts had a strange taste, she checked the bag and noticed that it...
  • Nearly 5 Million dollars in Canadian coins spilled on highway

    A Brinks tractor trailer carrying over 5 million dollars in Canadian coins crashed  along a snowy stretch of northeastern Ontario highway 11, near Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Police closed the stretch of highway while cleanup crews picked up all the loonies and toonies. Sadly, the driver and his passenger were severely...
  • Montgomery County Police stops Batman for missing tags

    In what can only be described as a surreal scene, the Montgomery County Police has pulled over Batman in a black convertible Lamborghini, over some illegal car tags last Wednesday, March 21st. The scene, documented with pictures by both the police and passerby’s must have been incredible for anyone...
  • Meanwhile in China: Keychains with live animals inside

    Chinese street merchants have achieved a new low in animal cruelty, they’re now selling key chains, containing a nutrient enriched solution that they claim will allow the enclosed turtle, fish or salamander to survive for up to two months. Yep, you’ve read that right, several You Tube videos have...
  • 9 year old gets summoned for jury duty in Massachusetts

    A 9 year old Cape Cod third grade student got a summons letter to serve as a juror in Massachusetts, and it’s not even that rare. According to Massachusetts Jury Commissioner Pamela Wood, it happens once or twice a year that a child gets erroneously summoned. Jacob R. Clark vas...
  • Linguists explain why Germans can’t pronounce “squirrel”

    A while back, on an episode of everyone’s favorite show Top Gear, host Jeremy Clarkson proposed that no matter how good an speaking English they are, Germans still cannot pronounce the word squirrel properly. In fact after a short You Tube research, it appears that he might be right....
  • Is Invisible Children a new version of the Nigerian Prince scam?

    Earlier this week and even this morning, my mailbox and Facebook page were filled with links to the Kony 2012 video, depicting children who are taken against their will, kidnapped, often killed or maimed and ultimately made to become soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) a guerilla group...
  • Meanwhile in Japan: Speech-jammer gun invented

    While men worldwide continue the struggle to place a word in edgewise with their spouses, their spouse’s mom, or when confronted by Fred Flintstone’s mother in law, scientists, you guessed it, in Japan, have invented a speech-jamming gun. The gun is simple to use, just point at the motor...