A deep, stentorian voice echoed through the dry canyon air. Laser beams scattered across the wide, flat surface, forming images to match the narrator’s tale: trampling mustangs of water, swooping eagles, the Statue of Liberty. It was a story of mythical proportions, the battle of man versus nature, national progress, and Democracy,...
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Stuff People Ingest Voluntarily episode 31
Before you start accusing us of focusing on the poor, fading laundry as part of our own Antonioni scheme to sabotage the world’s image of an entire nation, let us be clear: we are more interested in the one small bright square so carefully preserved like some tiny peep...
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While most travelers come to this great land in order to see the famous structures it has erected – ancient walls, temples, and fortresses, or even the more recently built stadiums and towers – they regrettably miss out on another important, and arguably more impressive, sightseeing possibility. Here, not only can one...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 61
“Baba, where is our roof?”
“Aiyo! Do not be so ignorant. Even a simple man could see that it has been harmonized.”
“But Baba, why our roof and not the Tailor’s next door?”
“Ungracious too! Have I raised a horse’s ass? You know very well that we are...
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Laying Pipe
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 60
See that mark? That carefully printed red symbol on the far right that looks similar to the tattoos American teenagers like to have injected permanently into their skin? Unlike those, this is not a sign of innocence. This is the chai, indicating the approach of...
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Scavenging
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A man, dressed formally from the belt down, casually above, strolls slowly down the street. He carries his young son in his arms. Soon they come upon a groaning, jerking machine, and they stop to watch as it scoops rubble from the sidewalk.
“Look, son,” says the father. “One day that could...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 29
Men in sport coats.
Men climbing blindly.
Men grasping the railing.
which guides and supports.
Up stairs.
Stairs to the top.
Stairs made by men.
Stairs narrow in direction.
A direction as firm as the stairs themselves.
Stronger, Swifter, Higher, Faster
Stronger, Swifter, Higher, Faster
The men repeat
Until the words lose their meaning
And the sound becomes a drone
Audible only...
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