Rants

Junk Art Conflagration: Roadside Poll Results

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Poll Question: “If an elderly outsider artist’s junk castle caught fire during your visit, what would you do first?”
We love our junk artists! This is clear from the results of our latest unscientific online poll. We share an innate connection with these dreamers and their outside art constructs. They may be cranky and antisocial, or [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Roadside Creatures: Monster Pig Story

Monday, March 31st, 2008

College road trip through the rural south. Our gas gauge below empty, we rolled into a no-service service station, miles from the interstate. The garage bays were open. The office door creaked in the hot breeze. No attendant. Everyone was gone…where? Suddenly, as if in answer, an inhuman grunting echoed off of the pumps. Around [...]

Geese Terror Cutouts: The New Fat Lady Butt?

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

A keen observer of ripples and perturbations in the fabric of civilization, our friend Steve Crandall noticed Geese-Dog cutouts with bandanas appearing in suburban NJ. Steve writes “About a month ago some dog silhouettes popped up around the ponds here. The geese didn’t care until someone put red and white bandanas on them. [...]