Unexploded Ordnance in Iraq
Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
Iraq is the world’s largest junkyard of UXO (unexploded ordnance). These are the guys who clean up the mess.
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Poker-Crazy America
Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
A comprehensive look at our nation’s obsession with all things poker.
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The Friendster Phenomenon
Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
Tollecting friends online has never been so easy—and so, I don’t know, ephemeral?
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Big-Wave Surfing at Cortes Bank
Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
Kamikaze surfers attempt 60-foot waves, 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. It’s only been surfed four times, and with good reason. You’d have to be insane.
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Sumo in Prague
Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
Outside Japan, the hotbed of amateur sumo wrestling is in the Czech Republic. Sweaty wrestlers, a sumo-themed hotel, and beer for breakfast.
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Kaiju Fighting Monsters
Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
Godzilla-style creatures battling each other inside a steel cage. This is Boston’s oddball comedy/performance act Kaiju.
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Ron White
Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
The Texas comedian who makes the Blue Collar Comedy phenomenon actually funny.
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RIP Johnny Carson
Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
The late-night television king is dead at 79. Here’s a story I wrote about him a few years ago for Salon.com, which was linked over the weekend on Metafilter.
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Sex, American Style
Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
Published by Feral House, 1997. This was my first book, a socio-anthropological dig into America’s heterosexual revolution. The one I missed. Includes the histories of waterbeds, hot tubs, communes, nudist resorts, swingers, and all sorts of adult and mainstream pop culture. Tons of rare images.
* NOTE: This book is currently out of print, but copies are still floating around online here and here.
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San Francisco Bizarro
Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
St. Martin’s, 2000. An illustrated guidebook that’s really more of a tear through the last 50 years of San Francisco history. Chapters on sex, death, celebrities, sleazy bars, strange museums, and odd inventions. Plenty of photos, addresses, and contact information. Available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and fine bookstores everywhere.
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