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...some of these activities sound a bit odd, it is not due to the peculiarities of Iowans, Missourians, Kentuckians, Floridians or Tennesseans. Not even the Californians, who are conducting a licorice-eating contest in Burbank, may be said to behave any odder in August than in January. It is the quality of the oddness that is different, the ghostly spirit that affects the mind in August, so that while one is actually entertained by watching three mules dive into a 6-ft. pool, still a part of the same mind retains its distance, goes off on a private reverie...
That was one of the odder answers I received to a question I asked over ten thousand times this summer: “who do you plan to vote for in the presidential election?” Other answers included “I don’t know, let me ask my wife,” “I don’t follow politics, but would you like to hear some of my short fiction?” and my favorite, “I’m an anarchist. I don?...
...anything. The artistes are most at home with a juggling pin—or five—in the air above them, but a dead squid, items of clothing, mangled Slinkies and olive-oil-doused kelp have been some of the odder items volunteered for an audience-participation gambit that has become one of the troupe’s trademark routines...
...American politics and perhaps a defining moment in the 2004 presidential campaign. In Washington last week, Newt Gingrich and the AARP--who battled each other over old-age entitlement spending in the 1990s--joined the White House in support of a new $400 billion Medicare prescription-drug benefit. Odder still, the Wall Street Journal's ultraconservative editorial page opposed the bill, as did ultraliberal House leader Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and most of the Democrats running for President. This, after a decade of Democrats pleading for just such a benefit and lambasting Republicans for blocking it. This, in the same...
Despite the apparent professionalism of the Pudding’s production methods, the group has a remarkable set of odd traditions and even odder happenstance...