(Thanks Caitlin!)

If the monkeys who drink the most get to lead the others, Frank151 could be leading a freakin’ army.

Oh wait, maybe we kind of already are.

Proving once again that life’s a bitch and then you die, here is a video of a Golden Eagle throwing a goat off a cliff…

This just in from the NY Times, via Frank fam ChinoBYI… you peep it directly on his excellent blog here.

“Sixteen nautical miles from the Indian River Inlet and about 80 feet underwater,a building boom is under way at the Red Bird Reef. One by one, a backhoe operator has been shoving hundreds of retired New York subway cars off a barge, continuing the transformation of a barren stretch of ocean floor into a bountiful oasis, carpeted in sea grasses, walled thick with blue mussels and sponges, and teeming with black sea bass and tautog.

‘They’re basically luxury condominiums for fish,’ Jeff Tinsman, the artificial reef program manager for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, said as one of 48 of the 19-ton retirees from New York sank toward the 666 already on the ocean floor. But now, Delaware is struggling with the misfortune of its own success. Having planted a thriving community in what was once an underwater desert, state marine officials are faced with the sort of overcrowding, crime and traffic problems more common to terrestrial cities.

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Just in time for Frank151 Chapter 32: Jet Set, with guest curator Jason Lee… 

Jim Jones trying to do the American Gangster thing with Alvin??  Is this really happening?

Apparently, JIM sez:

“It was like I was watching the film, and putting it on pause, and giving a back story to the story…” 

“Like Nutty Squirrels or any one of those groups, you take the good out of it, and you can see it as an inspiring act.” 

Either this is an elaboate gag, or Jim Jones really needs to lay off that uptown haze.

A lot of things would be cool if they weren’t so terrifying, but this one takes the fully mechanized, all terrain, ammo carting cake. With the balance of Baryshnikov and the determination of Ralph Nader, it’s the scariest thing on all fours since we heard rumor of an Ann Colture sex tape.

Back in ‘05, the guys from Team HeadHunter did what many in the sport-fishing world thought was impossible — they caught the Warsaw Grouper, world’s largest legal grouper trophy fish.  The Warsaw lives 300+ feet down, in regions which are notoriously difficult for deep-sea fishing; to make it worse, they’re huge, unusually aggressive groupers.  There’s a reason those things hadn’t been caught before.

But when they learned about a cluster of Warsaws that had taken up in a sunken freighter, Team HeadHunter jumped at the chance to bring a few in.   They got more than they bargained for — about 300 lbs more — and they’ve got shots to prove it.  

While this story was covered in the sporting press at the time, Frank151 has just been passed an email from Team leader (and diver who caught this monster fish) Dan MacMahon, describing the entire experience of catching this bad boy for us, in full detail.  And it’s a damn good story. 

Follow the jump to read highlights — and to see some more pics of the beast.

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 Just a little too late for Valentine’s Day, researchers at Denmark’s University of Aaarhus recently completed a study of spider mating habits — and were suprised to learn that female nursery web spiders really, really dig the quiet guys….  In fact, they like the strong & silents so much that male nursery web spiders’ most successful courtship strategy is to play dead.  

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The town of Edinburgh,

Scotland wants to build a monument to honor one of its local celebrities. During World War II some Polish soldiers stumbled upon a boy who was carrying a brown bear cub in a sack. The soldiers took the bear, named it Voytek and raised it. They fed the bear milk out of old vodka bottles.

They raised the bear not as a pet but as one of their own, as a solider. The bear developed an appetite for drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. The bear reportedly fought alongside the soldiers at the battle of Monte Cassino, and did heavy labor moving boxes to and from supply trucks. He became the mascot for the Polish 22^nd Transport Company. After the war Voytek, like many of his fellow soldiers, moved to Edinburgh

Scotland where he became a local celebrity and lived out his days in a local zoo. The zoo was probably a pretty boring place for Voytek, seeing that he was a complete badass.

Check out the article here
And some more pictures here

Anybody a fan of Carnivale?

JapaneseBugFights.com is the premiere site for the heaviest in bug fighting action.  You didn’t even know there were bug fighting sites, let alone premiere bug fighting sites, did you?

Well, there are.  And they’re incredible. 

The rules are simple.  Two bugs enter; usually, one bug leaves.   Fights last “as long as they have to” and no outside weapons or influence are allowed.  It’s the Insect Thunderdome.  

Wonder why animal activists aren’t more angry about the phenomenon?  Seriously, this shit is vicious.  Check out this hardcore clip : Praying Mantis vs Japanese Hornet.

A couple of things we’ve learned from this site: 1) contrary to expectations, scorpions can’t fight worth a damn; 2) beetles are like miniature living tanks.