The Town Scryer
Varied and fun blog by Philip Posehn.
Cop: “Your Car is Too Radioactive”
Mike Apatow was on his way to work, driving down I-84 in Washington, near Newton when he was pulled over by a state police cruiser. He asked the officer “What seems to be the problem?” He was told “You’ve been flagged as a radioa…
The Election Summed Up Concisely
Matt Taibbi said:
” But this campaign, relatively speaking, will not be fierce or hotly
contested. Instead it’ll be disappointing, embarrassing, and over very
quickly, like a hand job in a Bangkok bathhouse. And eve…
The Graffiti Hero
They called him “the spray man” for his graffiti that appeared all over the Syrian capital of Damascus. But in truth, 23-year-old Nour Hatem Zahra was an activist like any other activist.
He started protesting in Syria last spring. Back then, the…
Solving the War On Drugs Thing
Poor President Obama. Every day someone new piles on him about marijuana. First it was former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, then it was President Morales of Bolivia and former President Fox of Mexico. Now it’s Jimmy Kim…
Gathering Honey from a Cliff Face
Twice a year the Gurung tribesmen of Nepal lower themselves down the face of cliffs in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains using little more than rope ladders to collect honey.
In 1987, photographer Eri…
Kick-Starting the Baby Carriage
In 1923, Dunkley made the decision which was to earn them immortality: to produce a motor pram. The heart of this was a unit called the Pramotor, which was basically a scooter with the front’ wheel missing.The one-wheeled power pack could be fastene…
Nice Doggie?
In 2005, photojournalist Pieter Hugo saw a cellphone pic of a group of men in Lagos, Nigeria walking down the street with chained hyenas. The picture intrigued him enough to track them down and eventually go visit them.
In Abuja …
Leda and the Face/Palm (NSFW)
The London Metropolitan Police admitted there had been no complaints, but none the less they took a dim view of Derrick Santini’s modern rendering of Zeus ravishing Leda, the myth of the conception of Helen of Troy.
An officer took exception as…
Bookmobile
Bibliomules are used to “spread the joys of reading” in the foothills of the Venezuelan Andes, especially in the most rural areas where more conventional transport cannot reach.
For more see: bbc.
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