The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 59,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Death stalks us everywhere. The Grim Reaper doesn’t stop when we get drunk or go to work, so of course he’s still going to come for you when you’re busy getting jiggy with it. Probably after watching for a bit and breathing heavily, because let’s face it, he probably doesn’t get much action, what with the whole ‘touch a person, they die’ thing. In commemoration to this self-imposed sexile, here’s the thirteen stupidest ways in that people died whilst doing the nasty.
13: Robert Giles
American tourist Robert Giles died in a Philippines hotel rooms in 2001 whilst taking pornographic pictures of a local 21-year-old woman. The 53 year-old Californian became so overly excited whilst taking the pictures that he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest.
It isn’t known whether they recovered his passport or wallet, as is often the case with stories like this, which is funny seeing as we’d be checking the hell out of those photos forever.
12: Sandra Orellana
Sandra Orellana died after she fell from an eigth floor hotel balcony in Los Angeles whilst having sex with her boss, Robert Salazer. According to Salazer, they had been changing positions when she lost her balance toppled over the railing and plunged onto the concrete below.
11: Mario Bugeanu and Girlfriend
In 1999, Romanian football star Mario Bugeanu and his girlfriend were so desperate to express their passions that they made love in Bugeanu’s Mercedes Benz as soon as it was parked in his garage after a night out.
Unfortunately, in their rush to get down and dirty they did not switch off the engine and both died during their passionate romp from that notoriously unsexy passion killer, carbon monoxide poisoning.
10: Kirsten Taylor
Pennsylvanian couple Toby and Kirsten Taylor regularly used electricity as part of their sex play, but it all went horribly, horribly wrong in January 2008 when Mr Taylor accidentally administered a lethal shock to his wife with the power cord from her hairdryer.
9: Sachi and Tomio Hidaka
A pair of 34 year old Japanese virgins who had waited more than a dozen years to physically consummate their relationship died on their wedding night. Sachi Hidaka and his wife Tomio died from heart attacks during the act as they made love for the first time. Worth it?
8: Rosa Vela
Rosa Vela, a 22 year old Peruvian woman, died from septicaemia caused by the rusty padlock on a homemade leather chastity belt that her husband made her wear whilst he was away travelling on business.
7: Hagibis Jungao
In 2002, the wife and mistress of Hagibis Jungao ran screaming into the lobby of the Dragon Hotel in Manila to get help. Both women had been making love to Jungao in Room 106 when it all became a bit too much for the 45 year olds delicate heart.
An investigation by the Western District Police Homocide section revealed: “Viagra and the kinkiness of sex were his killers.”
6: Hannibal Cantori
Circus animal trainer Hannibal Cantori strangled his wife and then commited suicide in May 1993. According to Bucharest Police, the note he left explaining the motives behind his actions mentioned his understandable horror at walking into a stable one night, and seeing his wife being pleasured by a horse.
5: Eduardo Cristomar
After a wild night of drinking in August 2002, a group of male friends from Antipolo City in the Philippines challenged each other to show their manhood to determine who had the biggest penis of the group.
When Eduardo Cristomar laughed at the size of his pal Arnel Orbeta’s penis, the rightfully enraged Orteba took out a gun and shot him six times in the head and groin.
4: Simon Burley
If you’re going to push the boundaries of sexual experimentation, it’s always worth checking that your equipment is working properly. Bondage lover Simon Burley, 38 years old, put a noose around his neck whilst lover Elizabeth Hallam pretended to be a neo-Nazi hangman. Unfortunately, he gave her a blunt knife which couldn’t cut him down before he was strangled to death in April 2007.
3: Frank Burton
Can anyone ever really be too old for a bit of perversion? Widoer Frank Burton, 85, of Hampshire, UK, was found dead in 2004, two months after indulging himself in an autoerotic asphyxiation sex game. He choked to death by gagging himself with a rubber bathing cap and was found with a long piece of string tied around his gentials.
2: Anita Harold and Richard Lang
An amorous couple having sex in the back of their cars were so engrossed in their passion that they failed to escape when the vehicle rolled into a river. Anita Harold, 34 years old, and boyfriend Richard Lang, 30 years old, died when their car plunged into Beverley Beck in East Yorkshire in November 2002. They had previously told friends that they enjoyed going to remote places for alfresco sex.
Police did not rule out the possibility that they had been murdered, but had no proof. So, did the bouncing of their car during their heated lovemaking lead to their deaths or was the car pushed by an unknown killer? We may never know.
1: Jimmy Ferrozzo and Theresa Hill
The Condor Bar in San Francisco earned a place in American history as the first officially sanctioned topless dancing bar in the United States of America. It also had another ridiculous claim to fame: as the location of the most ridiculous sex-caused death ever to have occurred.
The club featured a white baby grand piano that was lowered from the ceiling every night. A dancer would climb onto it through a trap door in the ceiling to make a grand entrance. After the bar had closed one night in November 1983, bouncer Jimmy Ferrozzo and dancer Thereas Hill decided to make love atop the piano. During their sex session, they managed to accidentally start the hydraulics that raised the piano. Ferrozzo was crushed to death between the piano and the ceiling whilst the deeply traumatised Hill was trapped for several hours below her lover’s body until the janitor found her in the morning.
Israeli artist Tzook Marcel Har-Paz happend across Rongo Backpackers & Gallery by chance and found kinship with the creative people, the harmony and peaceful atmosphere of the unique hostel at the top of the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand…and decided to stay on as a LivinginPeace Project resident artist on the invitation of owner Paul Murray.
Arriving at Rongo and Accepting and Artist Residency at the LivinginPeace Project….
Rongo Backpackers & Gallery: http://www.rongobackpackers.com
Tzook has never had any formal art training, but his father is an art teacher and artist and he has grown up in an environment where the use of the right brain is encouraged and fostered. Having never really attempted to express himself artistically, Tzook has discovered artistic talent inherent in him and travel has helped it emerge from its latency.
Tzook with Bryan the Bear (Real and Manga Form)
Climbing Mt Stormy with Roaddeer Squrrelberg….
Gaining Experience and Wisdom from Experiences on the Road….
Working on the Farm and Becoming a Rongolian….
DJs RoadDeer and DJ Petia
DJ Roaddeer in Action on Karamea Radio 107.5 FM
Catching a Fish for the First Time and the Possibility of Fame.
Making Friends and Becoming a Rongolian….
L-R: Wwoofers Zoe, Tzook, Cody, Juliann, Sara and Mark
During his Artist Residency at Rongo, Tzook was interviewed by a Japanese TV crew who were in Karamea filming for the TV show “Sekkai no Hatte no Nihin Gin” (Japanese at the Ends of the World) as the owner of the hostel Paul’s wife Sanae is from Tokyo and the crew came to film her life in Karamea for TV in Japan. The TV crew were very interested in Tzook’s Japanese manga-style work and also interviewed and filmed him at work. The show will air in Japan on January 7, 2013 and Tzook’s artwork will be in display in Japan.
Sheep Shearing and Farewell to Friends…
Tzook became a valuable member of the wwoofing team at Rongo and forged many friendships during his time in Rongolia. His great sense of humour and passion for life made him very popular among the wwoofers and guests during his time in Karamea. He also had an opportunity to learn a lot of new skills during his tenure like; sheep shearing, radio DJing, gardening, cooking and catching fish.
…To Be Continued…
Tzook recently graduated from the Israeli Army with honors…he achieved the rank of Sergeant, but was relieved to be free of the rigid discipline, danger, responsibility and authoritarianism of military service and turned to his artistic flair for cathartic release from his stint in the army and the associated mental burden he had been carrying.
On leaving Israel, his sister Keren and her husband Ben Peck gave him a soft-toy bear as a mascot/protector/friend to protect, comfort and humour him on his travels…Tzook named the bear “Bryan.”
Bryan the Bear has been a constant companion on Tzook’s journey and feature in his “manga” styled comic artwork…along with his alter-ego “Roaddeer Squirrelberg,” who provides a steam-valve for pent-up aggression and machismo resultant from the military experience, but is not necessarily a natural character trait of the more peace-loving Tzook.
Tzook, Bryan and Roaddeer hit the road and found their was to New Zealand where they walked into many adventures and experiences. Tzook has been keeping a record of their journey by cataloging their travels in manga form in his notebook and hopes to eventually publish the work on his return to Israel.
New Zealand was Tzook’s first destination as he plans to travel to many countries, so he thought it best to go first to the furthest country and work his way back. His comic travel diary is filling fast with the many experiences he and his friends (real and imaginary) have enjoyed in Aotearoa.
Drawing has helped Tzook to overcome the challenging experience of being a military pawn and helped to put to bed the associated demons…we wish him well on his travels in life and art.
“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”
– Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.
“So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?”
— Christina Aguilera
“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
“Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.”
– Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel.
“I’m convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.”
– Milos Forman, Film director
“When I’m a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they’ll believe me because they weren’t listening to me.”
– Kylie Bax, Model/Actress, in Stuff magazine.
“The internet is a great way to get on the net.”
– Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate
“You guys, line up alphabetically by height.”
– Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach
“I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.”
– Britney Spears, on Blender Magazine (April 2004)
“I think war is a dangerous place.”
– George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. (May 7, 2003)
“I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.”
– Greg Norman, Golfer
“It’s nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he’ll bring a drill or something.”
– Brooke Shields, Actress, on why it was is good to live in a co-ed dormitory when she was in college
“Rotarians, be patriotic! Learn to shoot yourself.”
– Gyrator, Chicago Rotary Club journal
“These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.”
– Chuck Person, NBA Basketball player
“I’m so smart now. Everyone’s always like ‘take your top off’. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I’m not stupid.”
– Paris Hilton (December 2003)
I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman»
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”
– Mariah Carey, pop singer
“Predictions are difficult. Especially about the future.”
– Yogi Berra, Baseball player
“My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt.”
– Chuck Nevitt, basketball player, explaining to his coach why he appeared nervous at practice.
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.”
– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President
“And now the sequence of events in no particular order.”
– Dan Rather, television news anchor
“Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.”
– George W Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
“The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.”
– Dizzy Dean, explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.
“I was in a no-win situation, so I’m glad that I won rather than lost.”
– Frank Bruno, Boxer
“I have opinions of my own –strong opinions– but I don’t always agree with them.”
– George Bush
I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.
– George Rogers, NFL New Orleans Saint RB, when asked about the upcoming season
“I do not like this word “bomb.” It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.”
– Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons
“The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”
– Joe Theisman, quarterback and sports analyst
“Half this game is ninety percent mental.”
– Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager
Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it.”
– Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, ordering a salad at a restaurant.
“If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn’t own anything. My wife’s a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven’t sold them.”
– Ted Turner, media mogul, on selling off his money losing properties
“They misunderestimated me.”
– George W Bush, Bentonville, Ark., (Nov. 6, 2000)
“I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to.”
– Linda Evangelista, Supermodel
“Facts are stupid things.”
– Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”
– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
“That’s just the tip of the ice cube.”
– Neil Hamilton, BBC2
“A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man.”
– Samuel Goldwyn
“I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid.”
– Terry Bradshaw, Former football player/announcer
“It isn’t pollution that is hurting the environment, it’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President
I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
– Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
“The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.”
– Sylvestor Stallone, Actor
“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”
– Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
“We are not ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
“Will the highways on the internet become more few?”
– George W Bush, Concord, New Hampshire, (29th January 2000)
“Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.”
– Keppel Enderbery, Former Australian cabinet minister
“There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.”
– Roger Daltrey, Singer/Actor
“We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”
– Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
“I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that’s very popular out there in Africa.”
— Britney Spears
“Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding.”
– Mickey Rivers, baseball player
“I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
“Put the ‘off’ button on.”
– George W. Bush, Associated Press, 14th February 2000
“So Carol, you’re a housewife and mother. And have you got any children?”
– Michael Barrymore
“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
– Fran Lebowitz, US writer
“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
– Lee Iacocca, Chairman of the Chrysler corporation
“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
– Dan Quayle
“He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.”
– Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer
“If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight.”
– George Gobel
“If only faces could talk…”
– Pat Summerall, Sportscaster, during the Super Bowl
“Every minute was more exciting than the next.”
– Linda Evans, actress
“I’m not anorexic. I’m from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I’ve never heard of one. And that includes me.”
— Jessica Simpson
The Rongolian Star 
Karamea Radio 107.5 FM Interviews with the Rongolians
DJ Stephanie Owens interviews the Rongo wwoofing team (The Rongolians) live on Karamea Radio 107.5 FM on December 17, 2012.
The Rongolians candidly discuss their respective lives, passions, travel experiences, sexual persuasions, gender and personal philosophies.
Karamea Radio is broadcast from Rongo Backpackers & Gallery, which is part of the LivinginPeace Project.
Rongo Backpackers & Gallery: http://www.rongobackpackers.com
LivinginPeace Project: http://www.livinginpeace.com
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