RIP Gus

Sad news, everyone: Gus, the World's Ugliest Dog, is dead.

The 9-year-old pooch, who won the ugly crown in June, lost his battle with cancer today.

Gus, a hairless Chinese crested from Florida, had one eye and three legs. His adopted family reportedly rescued him after learning he was being kept in a crate inside someone's garage. He had one leg amputated because of a skin tumor and lost an eye in a cat fight.

Owner Jeanenne Teed said Gus passed away in her arms this morning. The skin cancer he had been battling had wrapped around his spine and the dog had lost half of his body weight. He was in a lot of pain and needed to be put down, she said.

As World's Ugliest dog, Gus had been featured on the Today show, Fox & Friends, Rachel Ray. He even had his own Animal Planet special.

Chinese crested dogs have a reputation for being pretty ugly, but poor Gus...he was hideous.

"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."

I'm pretty sure there's a Lorena Bobbit joke in this somewhere...

You'd think a 25-year-old guy could handle a few dicks drawn on his face after passing out on his friend's couch. Isn't that just the way it goes when you're the first one down for the count?

Well apparently Scott Masse, of Tennessee, didn't like what his friends drew on him and drew something of his own: a knife.

Masse woke up around 1 a.m. and realized that "someone had drawn a picture of a male genitalia on his face with black marker while he was asleep," according to the police report. He allegedly pulled a pocket knife and said he would start cutting people if he didn't find out who drew on him.

Dude, chill out?

The man scrubbed away the marker...just in time for his mugshot. and now he'll face felony charges when he appears in court March 6.

It's not easy being gr--blue?

So I think the tree limb man should befriend 57-year-old Paul Karason of Madera, Calif. Together, the two could represent land and sea.

That's because Karason's skin is an obvious shade of blue.

Fourteen years ago, the man developed a bad case of dermititis and instead of seeking medical help, he decided to self-medicate using a treatment called colloidal silver, which is made by extracting silver from metal.

Karason drank the liquid treatment and also rubbed it on his face, and for a long time did not eve realize that his skin had turned a hue of blue. [click here to watch an interview with 'the blue man']

"It wasn't until a friend I hadn't seen in several months came by my parent's place to see me and he asked me 'what did you do?.'"--Paul Karason

Side effects of taking colloidal silver include Argyria, which is an irreversible blue-gray discoloration of your skin, nails and gums--oh my God, you mean it turns your body blue??-- seizures and other neurological problems, kidney damage, indigestion, fatigue etc.

Karason (pictured above, middle) says he tries to avoid public places as much as possible. Maybe he can join the Blue Man Group? Ha--I'm sure he's never heard that one before.

Karason hasn't sought medical attention and is still drinking the treatment, but on a lesser doseage. Maybe he wishes to be a nice shade of cerulean; I mean, that was my favorite Crayola crayon, so I'd understand.