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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008The 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, 2008This 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 Pocket […]
Deep South Wants Share Of Nuke Fame
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008For 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, 2008An 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 looks like […]
Artist Yearns for Giant Lincoln Head
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Seventy-five-year-old artist Frank Gallo has a vision for Urbana, Illinois. He wants to build a 21-foot-tall bronze head of Abraham Lincoln, and set it on a plaza outside the Champaign County Courthouse. He even produced a Photoshop rendering of what the head would look like, which has probably done him more harm than good among […]
Socorro: New Mexico’s Other UFO Town
Friday, August 1st, 2008Roswell, New Mexico, is the self-declared Alien Capital of the World, and it has made a name for itself by commemorating a flying saucer crash that supposedly occurred sort of, kind of near there in 1947. Plans are even being drafted to develop an alien theme park in that relatively remote desert community. Now a […]
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