This is also why I'm such a bad liar.

zenrabbit says, "You're a really bad storyteller!"

I know. That's why I'm a poet. I try to capture moments in time. I realized I couldn't write prose a few years ago, and it's been a blessing.

I am a bad storyteller.

I thought it was safe to go to the bathroom during the halftime show.

Shows what I know.

Halftime show ends on a revealing note

CBS and the NFL disavowed a Super Bowl halftime performance Sunday night that concluded with Justin Timberlake baring Janet Jackson's right breast.

The incident was so upsetting to the NFL that it suggested MTV won't be permitted to produce another halftime show.

[...] Although much of the 12-minute halftime show was sexually provocative, it was the baring of Jackson's breast that fueled complaints to CBS, the NFL, local CBS affiliate KHOU-TV and the Houston Chronicle. Channel 11 apparently was flooded with calls in protest, and the Chronicle received several calls and e-mails.

The Houston Police Department's phones were ringing, too. Spokesman Robert Hurst said several callers wanted charges brought against Jackson. But he said HPD officials conferred with the city attorney's office and determined that no charges will be filed. "At this time there is nothing to indicate a crime was committed," he said.

Hurst said anyone upset with the act should contact KHOU-Channel 11, CBS or the Federal Communications Commission.

Jackson's portion of the halftime show featured Cabaret-inspired dancers, some dressed only in red underwear below the waist. Choreography included sexual innuendo and crotch grabbing.

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It's February! My favorite month.

I'm biased, of course.

Scientists have been very busy.

Scientists create two new elements

Russian and American scientists say they have created two new "superheavy" elements that will reside at the extreme end of chemistry's periodic table of elements.

Just a few atoms of the newly discovered elements, 113 and 115, existed for split seconds after being created in a particle accelerator. They represent unusual forms of matter with properties that go well beyond those of the 92 elements that occur naturally on Earth.

Superheavies may be abundantly generated by supernova explosions in stars. Or perhaps they were fused during the fiery moments that signaled the dawn if the universe.

Here on the ground, such tiny amounts of superheavies formed in atom smashers probably will never find an everyday use.

Yet their "birth" adds details to a broader -- and very competitive -- scientific inquiry to establish a single, unified theory that would explain the physical forces that govern the behavior of all matter.

Headfirst, huh? Mm hmm.

Male monkeys approach sex headfirst

Brain scans of tiny marmoset monkeys show a lot of thought goes into choosing mates, the team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said.

They used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to look at the brain functions of the Brazilian monkeys. Writing in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, they said the brains became busy when the monkeys smelled sexy scents.

"We were surprised to observe high levels of neural activity in areas of the brain important for decision-making, as well as in purely sexual arousal areas, in response to olfactory cues," psychology professor Charles Snowdon said in a statement.

"Lighting up far more brightly than we expected were areas associated with decision-making and memory, emotional processing and reward, and cognitive control."

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Am I the only one having problems with page layout? It doesn't hinder posting or anything; it just looks really ugly.