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...reads like outtakes from a Judy Blume young-adult novel. On a church retreat, a girl caught Franzen cheating at cards and thereafter addressed him as "Cheater." He once publicly confused the words masturbation and menstruation. For a high school speech class, he brought in his stuffed Kanga and Roo toys to illustrate his talk about Australian wildlife. "It's like, if I were making a list of things that I don't want to talk about and don't want to write about publicly, these would be at the top of it," Franzen says. "That's the organizing principle...
...usual culprit along this stretch of road is the kangaroo. "The roos breed up something phenomenal," says Eucla mechanic Rodney Fowler, who regularly tows broken-down vehicles across the Nullarbor. "Trucks bowl them over all the time, and a few cars as well. And they just keep on coming and they don't thin out." But a roo isn't to blame this morning, nor is low oil or water. Written across the Kenworth's chassis is the motto without trucking australia stops, but into the last quarter of their 40-hour trip, Schneider and Bryson must simply...
Move over, yellow cab. Jordan Harris and Roo Rogers are giving New York City's 13,000 taxis and 20,000 town cars some eco-conscious competition. Last September the longtime friends co-founded OZOcar, the city's first hybrid-car service. Since then their fleet has grown to 75 and includes the Toyota Prius, Lexus GS 450h sedan and Lexus RX 400h and Toyota Highlander SUVs. "Everybody's got the latest, greatest iPod and cell phone," says Harris, 52. "Why should we accept antiquated transportation, especially when it does so much damage...
...witnessed an artist either screaming or whispering his or her way through the Earth’s crust, drilling into the magma that flows in the subconscious. I remember seeing Beck do a solo acoustic show, playing Big Star’s classic “Kanga-Roo,” and his eyes glazed over. He saw all his lovers, past and future. He was exorcising demons. Similarly, I remember seeing Frank Black of the Pixies, monstrously obese, bleating out how much he still wanted to be a “Debaser,” even at his current...
...story; it moves from a description of an event to a poignant revelation. The boy has told his girl their affair is over, and she takes it, so to speak, like a man: "big girls don't cry." The boy has second thoughts ("Maybe I was cruel [actually, "ca-roo-oo-ool"]/ Maybe I'm a fool") and learns from her mother that the girl was "cryin' in bed," devastated despite her stoic front. Lesson learned: "big girls...