Circus

Last Sunday Brazilians got to exercise their right as citizens and vote. Besides president, senator etc, we had to elect federal deputies for every state. Surprisingly (or not...) in São Paulo, the chosen deputy-most voted deputy in the entire country-was a clown. Not calling names or anything, the guy is a real clown. "Tiririca", as he's called, is quite famous in Brazil and started his career long ago as a singing clown. His first released song, "Florentina", became a hit, played on most national radio stations. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIDyetR65JE. You are probably wondering why

it got big, since it's bad. We Brazilians know it's bad too, but we seem to have this fixation for bad, annoying stuff. Maybe that's why Tiririca was elected after all.

So, clown guy got more than one million votes, guaranteeing a seat at the parliament. Today, barely two days after elections, came the shocking news: Tiririca might not be eligible for the deputy position under allegations of being illiterate.

Let's see how it's going to turn out. He could actually be a good politician despite the fact he wouldn't be able to write a law project nor read any for a start. The clown drama is to be continued.




(Picture: slogan from his campaign, "Vote Tiririca, it can't get worse than it already is")

Keep walking...

Humm...take a closer look at the ladies.Would you really consider stop drinking?

Today's news: Lady Gaga appears at the VMAs dressed with meat

Note the strategic gap, so she would't smoke the ham, hehe.

Today's news: Lady Gaga appears at the VMAs dressed with meat

Note the strategic gap, so she would't smoke the ham, hehe.

Are you obsessed with the right things?

These are posters from an awareness campaign in Singapure against breast cancer. They want women to ask themselves if they are giving importance to the right things on their bodies: having a pimple or a big butt or having a bump in the breasts that could kill.

Ugly? No, just lacking some fixin'

So, if you think you're ugly, don't get sad. Get a surgeon!

Today's picture: in Lisbon

Look at the picture below and try to realize what is wrong with it:

These Portuguese workers had just finished installing poles on the sidewalk so that cars can't park there. How long do you think it will take until they realize where they parked their van?

(If you couldn't understand why Brazilians make so many jokes about the Portuguese being dumb, here is just a small parcel of the answer)