A “19-year-old was arrested in or near the Arsenal football ground in north London during the team’s clash with Fulham, Scotland Yard said. “He is being held at Islington police station on
February 23, 2002
“‘Til Somebody With A Key Do Us Part…”
More from the ‘you can’t make this stuff up’ files: “A US judge has ordered an estranged couple to be handcuffed together and jailed during a divorce hearing,” Ananova reports. Judge Gregory Pittman ordered they be cuffed together and shackled to a holding cell bench ‘until somebody decides that they’re going to not lie to the court.’ The order was made after Sabrena and Kirk Smith’s stories contradicted each other
February 23, 2002
Death By Cuppa’ Joe
You can’t make this stuff up: “A man apparently bled to death after falling on the shards of a coffee mug he was carrying, police said. “Joseph Stoyer, 51, was found face-down on the sidewalk outside his Long Island apartment building by a jogger Thursday. “‘Somehow he falls, the cup shatters, he lands on one of the sharp pieces of the cup,’ Detective Lt. Frank Guidice said.” [from The Washington
February 23, 2002
Enemy, Mine
The details of Danny Pearl’s murder are even more gruesome than we were first lead to believe. Not for the faint of heart… “US reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered in cold blood in Karachi by his captors who
February 23, 2002
Give us this night our daily Brautigan
For your Friday evening pleasure… from Trout Fishing In America Knock on Wood (Part One) As a child when did I first hear about trout fishing in America? From whom? I guess it was a stepfather of mine. Summer of 1942. The old drunk told me about trout fishing. We he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were precious and intelligent metal. Silver is
February 22, 2002
(An Older and Whiter) Shade of Pale…?
“An 81-year-old woman who arrived in court Thursday in a wheelchair plotted to
February 22, 2002
Wrong place, Bubs (and please, don’t touch anything)
Attention Googlers: There are no pictures of naked Victorian children on this site. In fact, there are no naked pictures, period (okay, there was that one of the Indian woman breastfeeding a monkey…and the Ashcroft photo, in which our Attorney General is dwarfed by a giant pewter nipple — but these are not the kinds of things you’re looking for, I take it. I do have some risqu