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Miami To Get Massive Orange Rubber Spiky Thing, Maybe

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Miami wants to develop a downtown arts district, but it has a problem: there’s an ugly sewage pumping station in the middle of it, and it’s too expensive to move. So the city announced a design contest to make the sewage station artistic. 143 proposals were submitted, most of them attempts to gussy [...]

Titanic II To Dock in Pigeon Forge

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Apparently based on the success of the monstrous Titanic attraction in Branson, MO, a second doomed ocean liner-shaped facility will be erected in tourist mecca Pigeon Forge, TN by Spring 2010.

Artist’s concept of the new Titanic attraction.
We like this artist’s concept of the new place.
Branson broke the ice, in a way, on the effectiveness of [...]

Nut Gauntlet Thrown Down In Texas

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

The World’s Largest Pecan is in Brunswick, Missouri. That bothers the people of Seguin, Texas, which for years has had another, older, smaller world’s largest pecan.

Vote For The Candidate Of Our Choice

Monday, October 13th, 2008

This is an important election year, as we all know. And the time has come for us to put aside our hilarity for a moment and endorse a candidate. In our opinion, the clear best choice for America’s future is — Whiting, Indiana.
We speak, of course, of the annual Capital of the Pierogy [...]

Deep South Wants Share Of Nuke Fame

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

For decades, the Savannah River Site in South Carolina has been a backwater of America’s atom bomb heritage. Located nearest the town of Aiken — whose speedy lobsters perhaps owe their zip to their nuclear proximity — Savannah River’s reactors made plutonium for the U.S. hydrogen bomb arsenal.
Oak Ridge, Tennesee, another historic bomb factory, [...]

Spacey New Home For UFO Museum

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

An article in Architectural Record offers the first peek at the proposed new digs for the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico. Two separate Massachusetts design firms will be creating the look of the building and its exhibits. The exterior resembles a melty, 1950s SF cover ala Richard Powers, while the interior [...]

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