"Your balls are showing"

Spencer Tunick, a New York photographer famous for large-scale nude projects, has created some 'balls-out' shots to celebrate The Beautiful Game.

Tunick shot 1,840 nude volunteers yesterday in Vienna's Ernst Happel stadium--the site of the EURO 2008 — the European soccer championship — which will be played next month.

The photographer had hoped to get 2,008 people out for the shoot, but no go. The shoot took place over a several hours, and the models posed in various positions throughout the stadium. [click here to view the gallery]

The goal, according to an ad for volunteers, was "to capture and combine the spirit of sports, the grand sweeping waves of stadium architecture and the abstract relation of the human form to modern structures."

Forever and ever, even after do us part

A 66-year-old woman had been living with the corpse of her dead 85-year-old lover for nearly a year, APA reported yesterday.

Police found the man's remains in the couple's Austrian cottage wrapped in blankets Tuesday. The body was obviously decomposing and the smell of death was permeating the building.

Officials said the man probably died in March of natural causes, but final examinations were still being conducted.

The woman had told a local doctor and neighbors who tried to contact the man since last March that he was abroad.

It kind of sounds a little like Hitchcock's 'Psycho,' but still, for a split second, I thought this was slightly romantic in an extremely creepy way. Maybe she just really loved him and was waiting to die next to him.

...but then I read that police are looking into whether the woman concealed his death in order to collect his pension payments, and that just totally kills the sentiment.