Archive for April, 2008

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Sticky Ticket: Roadside Poll Results

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

It’s your day to drive on a road trip with a couple of friends. You’ve been uncannily efficient, almost superhuman — making no wrong turns, handily navigating unfamiliar back roads, and finding every obscure monument, claptrap snake ranch, and UFO crash site on your list. Your pals are raving about the last stop, music is [...]

Your James Brown Pose: Make It Funky

Friday, April 11th, 2008

The Arts Council of Augusta, Georgia, has pointed a security camera at their city’s James Brown Statue. According to an article in the Augusta Metro Spirit, visitors to the statue are being encouraged to dial a special number on their cell phones, pose, and then the camera will take a photo and post it [...]

State Pulls Alien Theme Park Money: Visionary Vows To Find Private Funds

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The struggle to create the world’s first alien theme park, the Alien Apex Resort in Roswell, New Mexico, continues. For the past year, Resort founder Bryan Temmer has worked to secure $240,000 from New Mexico to complete a site plan for the park. But after agreeing to the arrangement, the state has pulled [...]

Things We Hadn’t Thought About (Yet)

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The Binghamton Star-Gazette reports that visitors to the Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, this past Monday may have been dusted with lead. The dust came from a glass factory next door, which was ripping out a melting tank. Visitors to the museum have been urged to “thoroughly wash their hair and [...]

Souvenir: Naughty Cactus Sighting

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

The Cactus Penis Planter, a classic southwestern souvenir stand item that once perched on equal footing with rattlesnake heads and scorpions in lucite, has done a slow fade from the nation’s gift stands. It’s been a while since we’ve seen one. We suspected the politically prickly novelties were a thing of the past, like [...]

Hydration Nation – Roadside Poll Results

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

These days, scientists dispute the conventional advice to drink “8 glasses of water a day.” The crazy regimen apparently makes no difference to your health, and over-watering may even sucker-punch your kidneys. Second thoughts about soaking ourselves come way too late to divert the bottled water industry….
Still, liquid refreshment is important for any lengthy road [...]

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