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We all know drinking can kill, but in one recent case, it actually saved.

• Illustration Ryn Gargulinski

Alcohol gets credit for saving the life of a man who passed out in his underwear on a freezing park bench in Warsaw.

That story and more are up this week on Rynski’s Shattered Reality radio show on Party934.com and FM 94.9 in Hudson Valley, N.Y.

Next show is Wednesday, Feb. 2 (today!) and every Wednesday online at Party934.com. Showtime is 1 p.m. in Arizona, 3 p.m. EST.

Party 934 is a radio alternative for listeners sick of stations that play one song followed by 500 commercials.

Songs that mention FOOD are on our scrumptious lineup this week.

Thanks! to all who keep the song requests coming.

Watch comedian David Armand attempt to mime out the lyrics of Phil Collins' largely unnecessary cover of the Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love" for BBC improv comedy series Fast and Loose. Best use of the man's music in some time.

[Daily What]

Today's the last day you can submit your photo and love story to our Valentine's Day contest sponsored by Fascinations. While there's a real fight for first place that would be hard to catch up to, if you enter today and put on an all social media campaign, you could get you and your sweetheart one of the six available prizes. Although you have to enter today to be eligible, voting continues through Monday, February 7th, and just reading some of the stories submitted is a nice breath of fresh rose-centered air in this cynical and dark world.

2011 Fascinations Valentine's Day Contest

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Video games have reached a new high, or shall we say low, with a new collection of games in Tokyo that work on the power of urine.

• Illustration Ryn Gargulinski

As if that’s not enough strange stuff in the Land of the Rising Sun, a malicious monkey that bit more than 120 people last year before its capture is once again loose on Japanese streets.

Those stories and more are up this week on Rynski’s Shattered Reality radio show on Party934.com and FM 94.9 in Hudson Valley, N.Y.

Next show is Wednesday, Jan. 26 (today!) and every Wednesday online at Party934.com. Showtime is 1 p.m. in Arizona, 3 p.m. EST.

Party 934 is a radio alternative for listeners sick of stations that play one song followed by 500 commercials.

Songs that mention laughing or crying are up this week with a lineup that includes a gaggle of giggles and gently weeping guitars.

Thanks! to all who keep the song requests coming.

• Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times

Check out the full slideshow and click the image above.

Florida's Sun-Sentinel has a feature on some of the more bizarre destinations around the world. It results in a collection of 46 beautiful areas around the globe that should be on anyone's bucket list. Included on their list are four here in Arizona. Not pictured here, but part of the slideshow: Antelope Canyon, in Page, Ariz., and the Petrified Forest National Park, also on the northern side of our state.

When bad luck repeatedly slams you in the stomach, don’t helplessly double over and moan.

Simply burn an evil cow head.

• Photo Ryn Gargulinski
• Chapayeka before its incineration

At least that’s the bad-luck remedy that worked for me and my guy after we invited an evil cow head into my home. Actually, the cow head mask was more than invited into my home; it was dangling gleeful in the center of my house from a light fixture above my kitchen table.

This was no ordinary cow head. It was instead a miniature mask fashioned out of animal hide and hair by the Pascua Yaqui and sold by a vendor at the entrance of our favorite Tucson restaurant.

The cow head caught my eye since it was creepy, freaky and downright ugly—a perfect match for my existing home décor. The vendor gave us a brief rundown of the head, saying it was an evil mask worn by Chapayeka, dancers who join the soldiers in killing off Christ in the tribe’s annual Easter Ceremony.

I was too busy ogling the ugliness of the mottled head to pay the explanation much mind. My beau did ask a vital question, although he asked it too late. The credit card was already in the vendor’s hand.

“Oh, no, no—the Chapayeka won’t bring evil into your home,” the vendor assured us.

Charge approved.

While Sports Illustrated's website would like you to click through nineteen far less interesting helmets to get to Kari Lehtonen's Chuck Norris themed goalie helmet, I'll do you the favor of presenting it directly here.

Enjoy.

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Two information guys, David McCandless and Thomas Winnigham, pulled together a year's worth of Yahoo horoscopes and found out that largely, the same words and phrases are used over and over. So, if you want to skip checking your horoscope every day, just read this mega-scope.

McCandless also created a word cloud for each sign, which is kind of interesting until you realize you've spent five minutes reading an analysis of horoscopes from Yahoo, a site you probably rarely look at or think about.

If you're looking for horoscopes that actually sound like they might mean something, consider Free Will Astrology near the back of our paper every week.

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One Australian couple took advantage of the area’s massive flooding by hopping into a swollen river on a pair of inflatable sex dolls.

Their joy ride soon deflated and instead turned into a river rescue, complete with a berating from police.

That story and more are up this week on Rynski’s Shattered Reality radio show on Party934.com and FM 94.9 in Hudson Valley, N.Y.

Next show is Wednesday, Jan. 19 (today!) and every Wednesday online at Party934.com. Showtime is 1 p.m. in Arizona, 3 p.m. EST.

Party 934 is a radio alternative for listeners sick of stations that play one song followed by 500 commercials.

NAME songs are again the theme this week, with a host of fabulous tunes that range from creepy to nostalgic.

Thanks! to all who keep the song requests coming.

Apparently, "carrots are for ugly people" according to the Epic Meal Time folks. I'm not taking any chances. Tough break, baby carrots packed in my lunch today...it's to the garbage can with the whole bag!