A little refreshing randomness from around the globe
A reclusive janitor wrote a story. It was called, “The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.”
It is 15,145 pages long.
Henry Darger was a social non-entity, an orphaned laborer who lived in the same one-bedroom Chicago […]
‘Don’t try.’
This author of this warning soon became known, by some, as ‘the toughest man in New Orleans.’ This scrawling on the front of a boarded-up rug store, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, was intimidating enough: the store went untouched by looters. Updates soon followed:
‘Still here. Woman left Friday. Cooking a pot of […]
Every year in New York City, a five-foot penguin walks the streets.
He is actually half-penguin, half-chicken: “Chengwin.” And for whatever reason, this oversized Sesame Street hallucination has become an annual fixture in the streets of downtown Gotham. He always arrives with a cheering hipster mob, oftentimes with a live band in tow, to battle his […]
In order to commune with God, some people dance with poisonous snakes.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on […]
“The Amish have the best parties.”
This boy was very drunk, and totally serious. He was just one of hundreds of Pennsylvania teenagers who were captured on camera during the filming of Devil’s Playground, a film about the Amish period of rumspringa. Starting around the age of sixteen, Amish children are allowed, if they so desire, […]
Every summer, a million and a half bats in Austin, Texas make themselves at home.
The Congress Avenue Bridge has become, quite accidentally, the largest urban bat colony in the world. When engineers finished its reconstruction in 1980, it turned out that the crevices underneath the bridge doubled as perfect bat housing. When Mexican free-tail bats […]
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