• Connecticut’s Garbage Museum (which should not be confused with its Trash Museum) may end up on the scrap heap by next June.
• A letter-writer wants to turn an infestation of winter crows in Albany, New York, into a tourist attraction, “like the bat colony in Austin” — unaware that the crow is already a tourist attraction in another New York town.
• The man who made the Giant Fist of Joe Louis is dead. “When it was unveiled, many people thought it was too violent an icon.”
• Another Orange 76 Ball is gone, and people are upset. But the big balls were all supposed to be gone by the end of last year, so maybe it’s a hopeful sign of corporate entropy. Two weeks ago, we spotted a captive 76 ball at one filling station along California’s Hwy 99 — perhaps preserved for some future ball-friendly world.
• Sweden’s giant Christmas goat has inexplicably gone up in flames again, part of some tradition. Maybe that’s why arsonists keep torching America’s straw goat in Swedesburg.
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