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Culture Buzz This is how they ring in the New Year in the Andes, and it looks psychotically amazing. These are photos from the Takanakuy, an ancient tradition among certain Peruvian villages in which guys get drunk, wear masks and beat the hell out of each other to settle disputes. It's an airing of grievances all over your FACE.
Culture Buzz In 1911, this famous Peruvian ruin was still lost to the jungle save for a few intrepid farmers. One hundred years later, it's become one of the top tourist destinations in the world.
Celebrity Buzz She's broken her embargo on bras, but in a uniquely Cyrusian compromise, refuses to wear a shirt with the bra. Instead opting for a heavily bedazzled jacket she must have bought at Tito Jackson's stoop sale. More over at Egotastic.
Quick, we all need to pool our money and fly to Chile! Lucky Chilean children from the ages of 6-12 can now have their parents live vicariously through them by signing them up for The Jedi Temple. The school is a combination of yoga, tae kwon do and and sword fighting via light saber. All wrapped up in learning about nobility, wisdom and self-control.
Culture Buzz Mardi Gras has got nothing on Carnival. It's all the pageantry of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade with all the debauchery of Fat Tuesday.
A 12oz. aluminum can of whiskey is now available in South America, the first time in the history of the spirit that straight whiskey has been distributed in such a way. Because Four Loko is for teetotaling pussies. No word yet if this blindness-in-a-can will be sold on our side of the equator.
Great moments in wanted sketches: South American edition! Update: “Cops claim that soon after they issued this image, people came forward with information allowing them to make an arrest over the case of a stabbed taxi driver.”
Politics Buzz South America is on the brink of war as Venezuela and Ecuador amass troops on the Colombian border in response to the killing of a Marxist rebel leader. A protracted conflict between Colombia and Venezuela threatens to deprive the U.S. of the two subtances we’re the most addicted to — oil and cocaine.
And you thought these reactions were bad. A million face palms is not…
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
