Absolute Random Nonsense

UFC women's bantamweight contender Pannie Kianzad freely admits that she’s had to tame her inner demons during her career, and now, as she gets ready to make the walk for her 24th professional fight, she says she’s really starting to tap into her full potential. Kianzad’s journey at the sport’s highest level started with crushing disappointment as she lost to Macy Chiasson in the featherweight final of Season 28 of The Ultimate Fighter. Victory would have secured her a UFC contract, but instead “Banzai” had to go back to the drawing board after a second-round submission defeat. Looking back at that fight, Kianzad admits it was a bittersweet memory, with the taste of defeat still palpable, but tempered by the knowledge of what eventually followed. “I remember not being in the UFC anymore!” she told UFC.com ahead of her upcoming bout at UFC Vegas 88 this weekend.  

When I was younger I enjoyed running in the street while screaming, "Witches are good, witches are clean."

  I was born in Tehran. My father is a poet. We moved from Iran in 1979, but before the revolution. I pretty much grew up in Los Angeles and learned English by watching TV. I went to the Sinai Akiba Academy and later to Beverly Hills High School. I played the violin for 13 years, but acting was always what I yearned to do. I went to UC Santa Barbara. There were no Persians or Jews there, and I was just able to lose myself and enjoy the college life. I studied environmental studies and did theater for fun — never thinking I could pursue it as a career. I later came back to Los Angeles, got a corporate job and I was just miserable. I did sales during the day and took acting classes at night. I did that for a couple of years to get myself trained and get a better understanding of the world beyond theater. The scariest thing I ever did was quit my job to pursue acting full time. That was two and half years ago. I quit my job, started pursing acting seriously and not even t...

A pancake really doesn't look like cake. It looks more like a pie. It should be called a panpie or pp for short.

When I was in middle school I used to feign running while lying down and being sick.

Two people have been arrested in the execution-style slaying of popular Woodland Hills doctor Hamid Mirshojae, who was  gunned down in the parking lot of his practice as he left work this summer. Ashley Rose Sweeting, 40, and Evan Hardman, 41, were taken into custody Tuesday in connection with the killing in August, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Sweeting is from Reseda and Hardman is from Texas. Mirshojae was shot in the back of the head as he walked to his car after work on Aug. 23. The shooting occurred a few months after the doctor had been jumped by a trio of men with baseball bats, an attack that left him fearing for his life.  

I used to violently - and intentionally - convulse as I held out my hand and asked for 6 million dollars.

Guy Fieri visited Hamid Shirdel at his Kababi Cafe restaurant.   

Has anyone ever tried to smell a lamp shade but instead ended up howling at plants while pinching an old lady's toe nails as she ate her socks?