2 posts tagged “odd”

Bringing new meaning to the term Ugly American is a recent visitor to Nuremberg who somehow thought a naked tiptoe through das tulips was appropriate. Local police said nein and fined him 200 euros for the image burned forever on the retinas of traumatized residents.

Welcome to the family: Julie Jenkins of Arkansas bit off part of her new son-in-law's ear the other night.

Viagara cures jet lag! At least, if you're a hamster on an eastbound jet it does.

All the rage in the UK: Designer vaginas.

All those newer housing projects San Francisco put up in the past ten to twelve years are falling into disrepair because the Feds keep cutting the Housing Authority's budget. Mayor Hairball wants local money to make up some of the shortfall. Supervisor Chris Daly notes he floated a similar proposal a few weeks ago, and Newsom refused to support it.

Puleng is an amazing and bittersweet animated short by Ali Taylor, and worth three minutes of your time.

SOMA residential hotel "catering to the poor" is pinpointed as Ground Zero for a nasty, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. In the name of keeping others safe, the SF Dept. of Health refuses to name the hotel, even though it spends nearly $4 million every year to fight the disease.

Don't feed those birds: The parrots of Telegraph Hill get special protection from the Board of Supervisors, banning public feeding of the red-cheeked conures in city parks. Advocates say the birds might lose their ability to forage and sustain themselves if they rely on handouts from strangers.

On a related note, I'd like to address whoever put up those banners on Columbus: The name of the neighborhood is Telegraph Hill. It has not, nor will it ever be, known as TelHi by anyone other than you and your silly-assed lamp post hangings. Furthermore, the Financial District is not FiDi, North Beach is not NoBe and Chinatown will never be anything other than Chinatown. If you're too lazy to pronounce anything with more than two syllables, I propose you make your way to the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge -- sorry, the GoGa -- and see if you can fly.

Boston's crime-fighters get over themselves, drop "terrorism" charges against the Mooninite sign posters. Typical of law-and-order types, it took a little while for the concept of "you're over-reacting and making the entire town look silly" to sink in.

What the hell? Tacoma police found a dead fawn dressed up like a baby and left on the steps of the Pantages theater, complete with a bib reading "You think I'm cute? You should see my aunt."