PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US Chengdu, China, street barber Xiong Gaowu offers a most unusual service at his roadside location in Sichuan province. For $12, Xiong will shave the inside of his customers’ eyelids using a straight razor, according to Reuters. Xiong suggests being “gentle, very, very gentle” when performing eyelid shaving, or “blade wash eyes,” as the technique is … [Read more...] about NOTW: Eyelid shaving, metal swallowing and cheesesteaks for the dead
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NOTW: Raccoon roadkill, inflatable Jesus parade floats and the Great Monkey Mystery of 2017
By the Editors at Andrews McMeel ANIMAL ATTRACTION Good fortune quickly turned to horror for a man in Allyn, Washington, who scored some raccoon roadkill to use as crab-trap bait on June 25. As the unidentified man walked toward home dragging the carcass behind him on a 15-foot rope (so he couldn’t smell it), two different vehicles stopped, and their occupants, mistakenly … [Read more...] about NOTW: Raccoon roadkill, inflatable Jesus parade floats and the Great Monkey Mystery of 2017
NOTW: Extreme birdwatching, fun with pennies and orange sheep
EXTREME HOBBIES John Weigel and Olaf Danielson are engaged in a frenzied battle of “extreme birdwatching,” each hoping to close out 2016 as the new North American champ of the American Birding Association, and a September Smithsonian piece had Weigel ahead, 763 to 759. Danielson is perhaps better known for doing much of his birding in the nude (and is the author of the … [Read more...] about NOTW: Extreme birdwatching, fun with pennies and orange sheep
NOTW: Tortoise porn, fake DUI checkpoints and performing ‘King Lear’ with an all-sheep cast
BARNYARD THEATER British director Missouri Williams brought an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear to the London Courtyard art facility in August for a one-week run, centered on a human actor struggling to stage the play using only sheep. The pivotal character, Lear's daughter Cordelia, famously withholds flattering Lear (thus forgoing inheriting the kingdom), and her … [Read more...] about NOTW: Tortoise porn, fake DUI checkpoints and performing ‘King Lear’ with an all-sheep cast
Paperwork Mines and Fake Male Sheep and Why Michael Jackson Is Still Getting Tax Bills
JOB SECURITY IN THE PAPERWORK MINE “The trucks full of paperwork come every day,” wrote The Washington Post in March, down a country road in Boyers, Pa., north of Pittsburgh, and descend “into the earth” to deliver federal retiree applications to the eight “supermarket”-sized caverns 230 feet below ground where Office of Personnel Management bureaucrats process … [Read more...] about Paperwork Mines and Fake Male Sheep and Why Michael Jackson Is Still Getting Tax Bills