Blog Posts by Jordana Divon

We can forgive Nik Wallenda for his Grand Canyon ambitions. It must be tough to top his incredible high-wire walk across Niagara Falls last June, a 457-metre-long stunt that attracted millions of eyeballs and an equal amount of “Wows!”

But when you hit a career milestone like that at age 33, can you never just sit back on the couch, crack open a can of soda, put up your feet and say: “Man, that was it. Time to spend the next six decades reliving it”? This may have worked for Al Bundy, but the seventh generation daredevil has already grown restless for his next adventure.

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As he suggested during numerous press interviews last year, Wallenda wants to take on the grandest canyon of them all: Arizona’s 446 kilometer-long Natural Wonder of the World.

“It’s just another one in the bucket list. This is a dream of mine, as was Niagara Falls,” he said during a Today Show interview. “It’s just the next chapter in my book, if you

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Hendrix the six-year-old English Springer Spaniel was supposed to fly cargo to Phoenix on Thursday. A slight problem arose when United Airlines handlers placed the pup on a flight to Ireland instead.While a large swath of the human population put on green wigs and pretended they were Irish this weekend in a thinly veiled attempt to get wasted for no reason, one New Jersey pooch made everyone else look like a slacker by jumping on a flight to the St. Paddy’s Day Motherland.

Of course he didn’t actually do this himself. United Airlines handlers put him there by accident. Poor little guy was stuck in a cage and probably had no idea what was happening. But hopefully there’s enough of a green beer haze leftover from yesterday for most of you to gloss over that little detail.

Anyway, here’s the actual story. As CNN reports, Hendrix the six-year-old English Springer Spaniel was supposed to fly cargo to Phoenix on Thursday. A slight problem arose when United Airlines handlers placed the pup on a flight to Ireland instead.

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His human, Meredith Grant, received the unsettling news 10 minutes before Hendrix’s original Arizona-bound

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Whether we like it or not, the zombies are here and here they shall remain until the last human cranium has been popped open, and its contents are slurped like the monkey brains entree in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Zombies are everywhere, and according to multiple experts, they’re here to stay as they’ve proved both culturally relevant (as in, we increasingly believe we’re doomed) and profitable (the latter partially explaining the former).

A good way to measure how deeply zombie culture has infiltrated the mainstream is the fact that companies are now marketing products to the undead demographic.

Well, the undead and their functionally breathing fans. For those who think there’s nothing sexier than a man who smells like a corpse in the process of necrosis, Demeter has launched Zombie for Him/Her, a pair of fragrances that promise to bring all the ghouls to the yard.

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While you would imagine

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White smoke alert! There’s a new pope in town and as Argentina's Jorge Mario Bergoglio upgrades his robes to Pope Francis I status, the Twitterverse is aflutter with 140-character words of wisdom, anticipation and downright hilarity.

May we present some of the top trending papal conclave tweets.

First the funny:

Snoop Dog elected the Pope from his car. There was white smoke billowing out all afternoon. #fb

— Brian Berndt (@berndto) March 13, 2013

If the conclave releases smoke from a smoke machine, it means the new pope is Skrillex.

— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) March 13, 2013

White smoke: yes pope. Black smoke: no pope. Bubbles: soap.

— Brett Erlich (@bretterlich) March 12, 2013

Remember: white smoke = Pope. Black smoke = no Pope. Sweet smoke = BBQ break.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) March 12, 2013

The wise:

For so many who claim to have no interest in religion you lot are mighty interested in some fella in a funny hat over in Rome #Pope

— Que Sera Sera (@sera_mcdaid) March 13, 2013

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"A lot of people think I'm a complete idiot, but I'm actually a professional idiot with decades of experience."

And with that declaration, Shoenice22, known to the American healthcare system as Chris Schewe (or "Oh Crap, Not This Guy Again" depending on who you ask), has forever won his way into my heart.

Schewe's particular claim to professional idiocy lies in his proclivity for eating all sorts of things otherwise classified as inedible on camera.

This is actually why he's famous. His YouTube channel, wherein he posts digital records of himself consuming everything from painter's caulk and Elmer's glue to a stick of Old Spice deodorant (ensuring that he's definitely not the man you wish your man could smell like), has attracted millions of views and over 200,000 subscribers.

Schewe says he got his start early, swallowing grass and pebbles as a youngster, then graduating to baking soda and even a tampon.

Though his activities may strike rational human beings as destructive,

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The good news: Mark Roberts got some incredible footage of Parsley Fern Left-hand Gully in Wales, UK.

The bad news: He had to fall 30.5 m (100 feet) down the side of Snowdown mountain to get it.

The 47-year-old safety consultant had geared up for a wintery climb with two friends. A lifelong climber, he no doubt believed that February 24 trek would be a trek like any other.

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But an errant chunk of falling ice had other, more nefarious plans. As Roberts explained to the British Mountaineering Council, the ice knocked him off his rocky perch and sent him careening down the side of the mountain.

All of this would have been little more than an interesting anecdote at climbing parties were it not for the helmet camera attached to Roberts’ cranium.

In

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Collectors, especially dedicated ones, aren’t exactly known for their reserved personalities so it’s no surprise that Stanley Colorite’s character appears to be as colourful as the multitude of dresses that adorn his massive Barbie doll collection.

Since 1997, the small business owner has become the singlehanded driving force behind the Mattel stock by amassing $80,000 worth of unrealistic female proportions in plastic form (on second thought that actually sounds like a promo for the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Barbie dolls. I mean Barbie dolls.)

More than 2,000 Barbies, most still in their original boxes, line the walls of his Hudson, Florida home. The collection requires four rooms and is punctuated by a series of additional Barbie accessories, like a $1,000 Barbie Dream Home with a working shower and elevator (!) and 3,000 additional Barbie outfits (including one designed by Oscar de la Renta) in case one of them gets bored of her summer wardrobe.

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A pair of randy reptiles is believed to be responsible for a fire that destroyed an English couple’s conservatory and garage.There are a number of animals that we tend to associate with sex. Tigers (as in, “Slow down, you tiger!”) tends to be a top contender, although sometimes it gets so crazy that we simply resort to generalizations. Anyone who’s ever yelled, “You sexy beast” amidst the throes of passion is complicit in this lack of specificity.

But as these things tend to work, it’s the species you’d least expect that has made headlines for literally burning down the house mid-coitus.

A pair of randy reptiles is believed to be responsible for a fire that destroyed an English couple’s conservatory and garage, the Evening Gazette reports.

The only other time this has happened was at the end of Like Water For Chocolate and anyone who’s seen the 1992 Mexican romance flick knows how well that ended for everyone.

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Tortoises Henry and Alice had reportedly just woken up from their long winter hibernation and immediately got down to

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