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How’s your Monday been so far? Has it been calm and quiet? Well, fuck that.

The absolutely zany clip was directed by John Hillcoat, who helmed last year’s apocalyptic thriller The Road– but don’t be mistaken: that movie and this video have very little in common. A short list of crazy shit that appears: a statue that cries blood, a wolfman, the vampire-looking cheerleader that adorns the cover of the “Heathen Child” single, Cave and his Grinderman compatriots shooting lasers and destroying civilizations, and a fair bit of NSFW nudity (including from the Grinderman members themselves). And more than one visual similarity to Hot Chip’s “I Feel Better” video.

(SFW audio-only here, but you’ll miss the insanity)

If I had $3.35 million, I’d definitely pick this up:

DOVER, N.H. (AP) – After nearly 400 years in the same family, a New Hampshire vegetable and fruit farm is up for sale.

The growth of supermarket chains and pick-it-yourself farms, plus the heavy workload, have made Lucy and Will Tuttle decide to sell their 134-acre farm in Dover. The brother and sister are the 11th generation of Tuttles.

Then, I too, could assume the moral and/or intellectual advantage conferred by living in something older than the State of Texas.

(there’s probably another joke to be made here, about Tuttle’s records not showing Buttle’s heart condition, but I’m not caffeinated enough to come up with it)

Israeli soldiers train for the inevitable Israeli/Palestinian dance-off.

(if it turns out to be a useful diplomatic technique, it may be in use for a long time)

Hilarious!

Cool!

Archenemy roving field correspondent TJIC calls our attention to this gem:

With Cars as Meth Labs, Evidence Litters Roads

Law enforcement officials in several states say that addicts and dealers have become expert at making methamphetamine on the move, often in their cars, and they discard their garbage and chemical byproducts as they go, in an effort to destroy evidence and evade the police.

Just as some states had reported progress in stamping out home-based meth labs, this transportable process has presented a new challenge: 65 percent of meth lab seizures in Tennessee, for instance, are now the one-pot, or “shake-and-bake,” variety. The number of meth labs seized in Oklahoma last year increased to 743 from 148 just four years ago, largely because of the prevalence of moving labs. In Indiana, the state police reported that meth lab seizures rose nearly 27 percent from 2008 to 2009.

The authorities say that the mobile method has grown in popularity because it is easier, cheaper and harder to get caught than making it indoors, and that most of the cooks are addicts themselves, not dealers or distributors.

One two-liter bottle might produce about eight grams of meth, enough for the cook to share with his “smurfers” — friends or fellow users who make the rounds at stores, each buying small enough amounts of the main chemical ingredients to stay below the radar of law enforcement, often while meth is being made in the back seat.

“We are so under water on this thing,” he said.

This process sounds only slightly more inconvenient for junkies than roadside vending machines would be. I guess forcing consumers to submit to a body cavity search in order to buy cold medicine has proved to be totally worth it!

Thanks, government!