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...ChapStick tastes good when you put it on your lips and lick them, but if you just bite the ChapStick, it tastes like poison. 16. On two separate occasions, I have returned to my dorm room drunk, with some form of cheese in my purse. (See pictures of Denver, Beer Country.) 17. When I was little, I pretended my bike was a horse named Satan. 18. My wife calls me Panda. When a friend of ours found out and started calling me Ling Ling, I got pissed. 19. I can't take guys who wear sports jerseys seriously. 20. Danny...
...corner, downing an impotent Utah beer and staring at a roomful of younger, hipper, less competitive people. They really were just happy to have their work shown to an eager audience. And for at least that moment, I was happy to have talked about myself to celebrities, eaten free food and drunk an enormous quantity of free absinthe. In fact, Defamer.com called me "the most coddled noncelebrity at Sundance." Which could form the basis of a pretty good short for this June's CineVegas festival...
...both of Triqui ethnicity, an ancient people who number in just the tens of thousands. The trial will judge one of their most sacred rites: bride prices. Adding to their concern is the way global media have jumped on the story, with the Internet headline "Man Sells Daughter for Beer" sparking a sudden interest in Triqui customs from Italy to Australia...
...involving Marcelino de Jesus Martinez, his 14-year-old daughter and her suitor, Margarito de Jesus Galindo, 18. Galindo had agreed to pay Martinez for his daughter's hand in marriage, according to Greenfield police. According to the cops, the total cost was $16,000, one hundred cases of beer and several cases of meat. "The 14-year-old juvenile moved in with Galindo, and when payments were not received, the father, Martinez, called Greenfield [police] to bring back the daughter," the police said in a Jan. 12 statement...
Nevertheless, the tremors are being felt across hundreds of Mexican indigenous communities that use forms of bride prices - which can include farm animals and soda as well as cash and beer. The Greenfield incident is the most high-profile U.S. court case ever to involve an indigenous Mexican marriage, and its resolution could set a precedent. Critics in Mexico have jumped at the chance to attack a practice they see as abusive to human rights. Defenders have warned against bashing Indian customs and called for understanding "cultural relativism" - a concept that sparks passionate pleas from anthropologists and searing scorn from...