• Snake Massage: A spa in Israel has put a unique spin on the standard massage. While some masseuses use soothing music or scented candles to supplement massages, owner Ida Barak prefers to use snakes; she believes that they have a calming effect and can alleviate joint pain. Imagine — lying facedown on a bed, strong hands rubbing oil on your back as a few snakes slither up and down your body. What could be more relaxing? Try anything.
• Geisha Facial: At the Shizuka Day Spa in New York, they use (according to the Web site) “traditional and natural Japanese ingredients” to make skin vibrant and soft. Traditional and natural sounds so purifying… until you realize that the treatment includes nightingale excrement. The treatment, uguisu no fun, incorporates powdered (and sanitized) nightingale feces into a facial mixture that revitalizes skin.
• Aberdeen Organic Bull Sperm Treatment: If you don’t have an aversion to sperm in your tresses, go to Hari’s Salon in London and get their infamous treatment. The protein in this ingredient moisturizes, brightens, and repairs your hair like nothing else. It’s combined with Katera root, another protein powerhouse that does amazing things for hair.
• Fish Reflexology: Customer at Singapore’s Sentosa spa can sit in a bath while tiny Turkish spa fish (also called doctor fish) swim around and eat the dead skin off your feet. After the fish nibble, you’re left with softer, healthier feet.
• Bathe in Your Favorite Beverage: At the Hakone Kowakien Yunessun spa in Japan, you can soak in a big pool of red wine. If alcohol’s not your thing, how about green tea, coffee, or sake? Each liquid offers therapeutic benefits for the skin — for example, green tea contains immune-boosting antioxidants, and red wine has skin-restorative properties.
• Chocolate Fondue Wrap: Going to a spa is an indulgent act already, so why not step it up a notch and indulge your sweet tooth, too? The spa in the Hotel Hershey (possibly the most delicious-sounding hotel ever) offers a plethora of cocoa-infused treatments designed to both soothe you and make you really hungry.
• Corona Beer Face Lift: If you love Coronas, but hate the subsequent bloat, head to the Esperanza Resort Spa in Mexico and experience the healing power of beer for a change. The beer treatment is supposed to clear your pores, tighten your skin, and give your face a fresh “glow” — quite different from the glow you get after drinking a couple of Coronas.
• The “Other” Face Lift: It’s not enough that we have to worry about how toned our legs or arms are. According to Phit, a spa in New York dedicated to pelvic health, women should also be mindful of our their genital area muscle tone. The clinic offers pelvic services for mothers who’ve recently given birth, women with bladder control issues, and those who are dedicated to fitness on all levels. The Web site claims that the “Other” Face Lift, which is geared toward older women worried about wrinkling or sagging in that area, can “restore labial and vulvar contour to a plump firmness” with a process involving lasers.
• The Fanny Facial: The Smooth Synergy Day Spa in New York offers the Fanny Facial, a process involving exfoliation, microcurrent therapy, and a spray tan for your booty. The microcurrent therapy helps reduce the appearance of cellulite and tones your backside, and the spray tan enhances the tone.

Courtesy of Consumerist.com

Cheryl Wallach from the Calgary Humane Society often surprises us when she stops by every Thursday with a pet available for adoption. This week, a pretty cool frog named Elvis. He’s a pac-man frog (South American Ornate Horned Frog). He and female frog were found during a drug bust. You can check him, his woman and tons of other animals out at the CHS website.

I’m not the most organized person in the world, and I’m not alone. As a result there are all sorts of bank accounts in Canada that were forgotten…many with unclaimed balances. About 225 of the accounts contain more than $50,000, but most are under $10,000. All told, there’s over $320,000,000 in unclaimed money under about 938,000 names. It’s kinda fun to enter your name and names of friends and family in the search engine to see if there’s some money just sitting around. Here’s the search form:

Free Money? 

The unveiling of the lineup was made at the 2008 E3 Media and Business Summit, where new and updated features of the second edition of the game were also revealed. A total of 84 songs will be included with the game itself, with 20 more to be made available for free downloading in the fall. Among the other artists contributing tracks to Rock Band 2 are Pearl Jam, Metallica, the Allman Brothers, Devo, Paramore, Modest Mouse, Nirvana, the Who, Jimmy Eat World, Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and many more.

• Rock Band 2 will make its debut on Xbox 360 this September, and will be available for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and Wii systems later this year.
• The official Rock Band 2 track listing is:
  1. AC/DC - “Let There Be Rock”
  2. AFI - “Girl’s Gone Grey”
  3. Alanis Morissette - “You Oughta Know”
  4. Alice in Chains - “Man In The Box”
  5. Allman Brothers - “Ramblin’ Man”
  6. Avenged Sevenfold - “Almost Easy”
  7. Bad Company - “Shooting Star”
  8. Beastie Boys - “So Whatcha Want”
  9. Beck - “E-Pro”
  10. Bikini Kill - “Rebel Girl”
  11. Billy Idol - “White Wedding Pt I”
  12. Blondie - One Way Or Another”
  13. Bob Dylan - “Tangled Up In Blue”
  14. Bon Jovi - “Livin’ on A Prayer”
  15. Cheap Trick - “Hello There”
  16. Devo - “Uncontrollable Urge”
  17. Dinosaur Jr. - “Feel the Pain”
  18. Disturbed - “Down With The Sickness”
  19. The Donnas - “New Kid In School”
  20. Dream Theater - “Panic Attack”
  21. Duran Duran - “Hungry Like the Wolf”
  22. Elvis Costello - “Pump It Up”
  23. Fleetwood Mac - “Go Your Own Way”
  24. Foo Fighters - “Everlong”
  25. The Go-Go’s - “We Got the Beat”
  26. The Grateful Dead - “Alabama Getaway”
  27. The Guess Who - “American Woman”
  28. Guns N’ Roses - “Shackler’s Revenge”
  29. Interpol - “PDA ”
  30. Jane’s Addiction - “Mountain Song”
  31. Jethro Tull - “Aqualung”
  32. Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”
  33. Joan Jett - “Bad Reputation”
  34. Journey - “Anyway You Want It”
  35. Judas Priest - “Painkiller”
  36. Kansas - “Carry On Wayward Son”
  37. L7 - “Pretend We’re Dead”
  38. Lacuna Coil - “Our Truth”
  39. Linkin Park - “One Step Closer”
  40. Lit - “My Own Worst Enemy”
  41. Lush - “De-Luxe”
  42. Mastodon - “Colony of Birchmen”
  43. Megadeth - “Peace Sells”
  44. Metallica - “Battery”
  45. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - “Where’d You Go”
  46. Modest Mouse - “Float On”
  47. Motorhead - “Ace of Spades”
  48. The Muffs - “Kids in America”
  49. Nirvana - “Drain You”
  50. Norman Greenbaum - “Spirit in the Sky”
  51. The Offspring - “Come Out & Play (Keep ‘Em Separated)”
  52. Panic at the Disco - “Nine In The Afternoon”
  53. Paramore - “That’s What You Get”
  54. Pearl Jam - “Alive”
  55. Presidents of the USA - “Lump”
  56. Rage Against the Machine - “Testify”
  57. Ratt - “Round & Round”
  58. Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Give it Away”
  59. The Replacements - “Alex Chilton”
  60. Rise Against - “Give it All”
  61. Rush - “The Trees”
  62. Silversun Pickups - “Lazy Eye”
  63. Smashing Pumpkins - “Today”
  64. Social Distortion - “I Was Wrong”
  65. Sonic Youth - “Teenage Riot”
  66. Soundgarden - “Spoonman”
  67. Squeeze - “Cool For Cats”
  68. Steely Dan - “Bodhitsattva”
  69. Steve Miller Band - “Rock’n Me”
  70. Survivor - “Eye of the Tiger”
  71. System of a Down - “Chop Suey”
  72. Talking Heads - “Psycho Killer”
  73. Tenacious D - “Master Exploder”
  74. Testament - “Souls Of Black”
  75. The Who - “Pinball Wizard”

Goliath is, as his name suggest, a big dog. He’s a four year old Saint Bernard, whose owner left him behind when he/she moved. He’s a very friendly dog, who knows a whole bunch of commands like sit, lie down and shake a paw. If you’re looking to add a big lovable boy to your family, shedulae a visit with Goliath. Beware though, he does shed and slobber a little. You can check him and all osrts of other great pets out at The Calgary Humane Society.

If you’re a smart advertiser, you likely received an invite to the X92.9 Client Stampede Party. Of course, as with most fun station events, they scheduled it during my show. It wasn’t too bad though, as it went past 7. Everyone seemed to be having a good time, and we even got a mention from The Herald’s Tonya Zelinsky who said it was the best Stampede party she’d been to so far. It was the first Stampede party we’ve thrown and promises to be a pretty sweet annual event. How do you get in? Make friends with our sales team! Read Tonya’s account.

Lulu the dog stopped by the studio today along with Cheryl from the Calgary Humane Society. Lulu is 11 months old and is a lab crossed with…a shorter legged dog. She is a really nice looking, good-tempered dog ready for a loving owner.

It seems to be a guy thing. Guys love cereal. Perhaps it’s the ease of filling a bowl with cereal goodness, then simply pouring in some milk. We talked about the phenomenon of sugar cereals, cereals generally and took some calls. Mmmm. Cereal.

Cereal Talk

Cereal Callers #1

Cereal Callers #2

Last week, British social etiquette advisor Debrett’s issued five “golden rules” for using Facebook. Here are their rules:

1. You don’t have to make friends with people you don’t know. Think before you poke.

2. Wait 24 hours before accepting or removing someone as a friend. The delay will help you gather your thoughts.

3. Birthdays, engagements and weddings are not “virtual” events. Always send cards or phone friends when there is an important event.

4. Think before posting a friend’s photo what you would feel like if it was you.

5. Think carefully about your profile picture. Would you want it to be appearing in your local newspaper?

And, now I present MY rules for Facebook:

Applications. No more than 15 applications! And if you add one, don’t invite every single person on your friends list. I don’t don’t give a sh!t what type of cat I am. The reason MySpace died is partly because there was so much junk on people’s pages that it took forever to load.

Profile Pics. No shirtless pics. Automatic douche. Unless it’s unflattering and/or ironic. If you’re in a couple, this doesn’t mean your profile is shared…you’re still individuals. Profile pics as a couple: ultra-lame. Celebrate your independance! Also, as with any picture, flashing any kind of hand sign (devil horns, the finger, etc.) is tres lame. 

Status Updates. No more than 3 a day. Max! Too many people change them on a second-to-second basis. “Emma is eating candy corn.” 3 minutes later: “Emma enjoyed the candy corn.” 10 minutes later: “Emma feels sick to her stomach.” Also, if you have a gripe with one specific person…email them or write on their specific wall. “Caitlin thinks you are a total bitch” makes no sense to anybody but one person on your friends list. Grammar counts. No “is is.” No “is wants to hang out tonight.”

Tagging. Use your discretion when tagging. If I look terrible in a pic (most of the time) leave the tagging up to me.

Poking. If someone doesn’t return your poke, if you have to try again, wait a week. Poking is like flirting. I always find it a little strange getting poked by guy friends.

That’s it for now, but let’s make this list fluid. Disagree? Post your comments. Add your rules in the comments. Here’s some audio:

The Facebook Rules

Callers

Relationship Status

I was talking about who my go-to-girls were for when I’m alone (or thinking about someone else…see post below.) Celebrity-wise, Scarlett J. comes into the picture. Also Estella Warren, hot Canadian. But there’s also exes and various ladies you meet along the way. What’s yours?

Caller Audio 1

Caller Audio 2