Category: General

17 1/2 Hours at Bojangles’

Be sure to check out Paul Friedrich’s blog tomorrow, the 16th, as he’ll be participating in an Suburban Xtreme Endurance Event in Raleigh, spending an entire day in a Bojangle’s restaurant.  Here’s the skinny from the press release: October 16, 2007 Paul Friedrich and Bryan Pack will attempt to spend an entire 17 1/2 hour …

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Lyle Lovett

I just think this is really funny.

The Spitsbergen Airship Museum

I had been scouring the web, looking for some illustrations of the airship Italia I wanted to potentially reference for my work on the final chapter of my forthcoming graphic novel, Midnight Sun, when I stumbled on the website for the Spitsbergen Airship Museum. It looks like, at this point, the museum is in-progress and …

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Hello Kitty Used to Punish Thai Cops

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6932801.stm  Unfortunately none of the articles on this new development feature a picture of the actual patch that’s being used to punish the officers. From the article: Police chiefs in the Thai capital, Bangkok, have come up with a new way of punishing officers who break the rules – an eye-catching Hello Kitty armband. The armband is …

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Strangely Appropriate Ad

I’ve got nothing against having kids–in fact, I’ve got one on the way myself–but I was reading with some disbelief this article about an Arkansas woman who recently gave birth to her sixteenth child. The article itself was frankly, snarky and meanspirited, but I couldn’t resist checking out the accompanying photo. As you can see, …

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