THIS WEEK IN FLORI-DUH In October, state alcohol agents, assisted by local police in full riot gear, raided a bar in Largo, Fla. to shut down the latest gathering of the venerable Nutz Poker League, even though its players do not wager. (They meet at bars and restaurants, where management gives winners token gifts in exchange for the increased business.) A prosecutor told the … [Read more...] about Serial Drownings And Underwear Bomber Tactics And Floriduh
September
Christ Returns And Wedding Blues and Football Follies
CAUGHT ON VIDEO: CHRIST’S RETURN “If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible,” wrote the Los Angeles Times in an October dispatch from Jerusalem, the two largest Christian television networks in the U.S. promise to cover the arrival live from a hilltop in the city. Daystar Television has already been beaming a 24/7 webcam view, and Trinity … [Read more...] about Christ Returns And Wedding Blues and Football Follies
Male Cosmetics In South Korea and The Art Of Sleeping Women
MEN WANT TO BE PRETTY, TOO For some reason, South Korea (with about one-sixth the men that America has) is the world’s largest consumer of male cosmetics, with its leading company approaching $1 billion a year in sales. According to a September Bloomberg Business Week dispatch, South Korean males became fascinated with the country’s 2002 World Cup soccer team’s “flower men,” … [Read more...] about Male Cosmetics In South Korea and The Art Of Sleeping Women
Talking Story with Maui Kite Surfers – July 21, 1998
The island of Maui is a drawing board where many ocean sports have been created. For years, people have migrated to the Valley Isle to chalk out new and exciting ways to test the boundaries between man, wind and water. This is the eve of kite surfing, and there’s a new wind blowing. In the mid 1980s, an engineer from Oregon named Cory Roeseler designed a kite big enough to … [Read more...] about Talking Story with Maui Kite Surfers – July 21, 1998