Texas Chainsaw Massacre True Story

Despite being heavily touted as "inspired by a true story," both Tobe Hooper's original 1974 film and the 2003 Marcus Nispel remake are only lightly based on the real-life murderer Ed Gein, who is suspected to have taken several victims between 1954 and 1957. Perhaps the most...

The cleanest fuel for the dirtiest engines? You decide

Do you own a small engine? Do you know what small engine emissions do to your health and the environment? Do you know why small engines pollute so much? Are you tired of your small engine equipment having starting...

Man dismembers wife with chainsaw

A 30 year old husband attacked his 28 year old wife with a chainsaw in front of their two children aged 9 and 11 today in the southern Greek town of Kalamata. According to police reports the attack, which resulted...

Not Another Teen Chainsaw Movie

Coming sometime soonish is the film adaptation of Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge... I've never read it, but you gotta admit that the title is catchy. At risk of generalizing by country, Japan has a great track...

Buskerfest: Flaming Chainsaws

I got a chance to check out Buskerfest whilst in Toronto this weekend, which hosts a gathering of street performers from all over the world. I was picturing a sort of Glastonbury of street performers, but it...

Snow in June: Chainsaws, Chicks and Beer

It's been fifteen years since Kokanee (sort of a Canadian MGD) has launched a new product, and they celebrated in Vancouver with a winter-in-June party in Kitsilano. Victoria Revay invited me along, and we checked...

Oregon elephant loses infected tusk to chainsaw

Poor Tusko! Now his name doesn't even really apply... "It took veterinarians and a dentist nearly five hours Saturday to remove what was left of an elephant's infected tusk at the Oregon Zoo and it took a...

Mimicry and The Lyrebird (Online David Attenborough Video)

In April 2006, to celebrate naturalist David Attenborough's 80th birthday, the public were asked to vote on their favourite of his television moments. This clip of the lyrebird was voted number one. A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most...

I Don't Do Mornings

" Do not disturb takes on new meaning in a billybog in Australia. Best to leave sleeping crocs lie, even Captain Hook knew that. A crocodile in northern Australia has chased a storm-clearance worker up a tree and made off with his chainsaw."

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