News from Mexico that Doesn’t Involve Beheading!
More kissing in public means change in Mexico.Related Posts:No related posts…
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What Makes a Pigeon a Champion?
Being shaped like Foghorn Leghorn:Or being accessorized by nature’s winter trimmed boots, as is the Bavarian Pouter:And then there’s the Bokhara Trumpeter:More champs!Related Posts:No related posts…
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5,318,008
I’m glad there’s a wikipedia entry for 5,318,008 = BOOBIES, and many other entertainments from algebra class:Related Posts:No related posts…
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The Newspaper Never Dies
Even in the aftermath of an unprecedented earthquake:When the worst earthquake in Japan’s history and the subsequent tsunami knocked out all power in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture,...
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Tara Donovan Draws with Pins
I can’t get enough of Tara Donovan’s work, so I was excited to see a new series of pin placements, like so:There’s no ink there, just a whole bunch of nickel-plated steel pins, arranged in a 5-foot...
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A Little Obvious, But the Craft Is Still Compelling
Religious buildings built out of guns and ammo.Related Posts:No related posts…
View ArticleMan Has Sex with 1000 Cars!
Or: Looks like someone caught the Love Bug! (Get it?)Seriously, for real.Related Posts:No related posts…
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Photo Studio Tragedies
Isn’t that how we all feel sometimes? More here.Related Posts:No related posts…
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Baghdad Country Club
The following is an excerpt from “Baghdad Country Club” by Joshuah Bearman. You can find the full story on The Atavist.***Iraqis have a word, barra, which means “out there,” and for those lucky enough...
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The Other Argo
In 2007 Rumpus pal and contributor Joshuah Bearman wrote “The Great Escape,” a Wired article upon which the Academy Award-winning film Argo was based. During editing, Josh wrote an alternate lede,...
View ArticleR.I.P. Harry Weathersby Stamps, ladies’ man, natty dresser, accomplished...
A wildly entertaining obit from the Biloxi Sun Herald:He despised phonies, his 1969 Volvo (which he also loved), know-it-all Yankees, Southerners who used the words “veranda” and “porte cochere” to put...
View ArticleThe last place where the post office tries to decipher your bad handwriting
Or just impossible addresses, like “the one addressed to the house ‘down the street from the drugstore on the corner’ or one intended for ‘the place next to the red barn.’”Related Posts:No related posts…
View Article“The world is one magical motherfucker.”
From the Bill Hicks Story.Who are you? And why are you here?Related Posts:No related posts…
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There’s a black hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster and it’s singing a sad...
Actually, its entire tune is the note B-flat, but 57 octaves lower than middle-C, or one million billion lower than what the human ear can hear. It is “the deepest note ever detected from an object in...
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a very smart little man in an evening dress suit
George Murray Levick, in the early twentieth century, on Scott’s expedition to antarctica:“When seen for the first time, the Adélie penguin gives you the impression of a very smart little man in an...
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The Ex-President’s Argo
My friend Jonathan loaned his copy of Argo to George H. W. Bush, who loved it.Related Posts:No related posts…
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