Extreme Skiing
This year's World Extreme Skiing Championships will feature two types of descent: Hail Mary and Mother of God
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Hello, Father? Do You Offer Last Rites by Cell Phone?
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Take Yosemite, Then Multiply By 20
With U.S. help, China sets up one of the world’s largest national parks
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No Death, No Car Chases, and the Star Doesn’t Fall in Love
A new movie about Ethiopian distance legend Haile Gebrselassie breaks the tired form
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Well, Women Think I’m Kinda Weird
And if you lived in a hole for 10 years, they’d probably say the same of you
When authorities on Massachusetts’s Nantucket Island recently discovered that Thomas Johnson had spent the last decade secretly living in a 158-square-foot bunker beneath some of the priciest real estate on the eastern seaboard, they were astonished at his amenities: Belgian stone floors, cedar paneling, skylights, a queen-size bed. Intrigued, we caught up with the 38-year-old recluse, who’s staying with a friend while he appeals his eviction notices. So … you’re a hermit? I don’t fit the bill of an underground kook. And I’m not prejudiced against anybody. I hate everyone equally. You were eight feet underground. Was it, you know, kinda dirty down there? When people think underground, they think dirt. My place is not dirty at all. I’m a cleanness freak. People are envious. What about the winters? It never got colder than 52 degrees. The stove would eventually heat up the stone floor. The stonework was beautiful. It looked like I had a team of Aztecs come in there and lay it. Must have been pretty lonely. Every day I got to talk to the animals. Red squirrels. Chipmunks. Owls. They liked to listen to me talk. Any critters you’re not so fond of? Rats. One time one dug in through the back vent into an empty space behind the wall. God almighty, did that infuriate me! I drilled holes and shot the space full of foam. I hope I nailed the son of a bitch with foam. Did you ever think, gee, it sure would be nice to order a pizza? Hell, no. So what happens next? I’ve got a cliff dwelling in the Catskills and a bunker near a waterfall in Pennsylvania. I’m like a beaver. I can carve a place into the woods, and you’d never know it was there. |
Like the Ewoks, but More Pungent
In Oregon, a group of radicals communes with the Arboreal Oneness
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Ghosts in the Machine
Update
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Kites Are Da Bomb?
Apparently yes—but only when attached to surfboards for the purpose of grabbing big air
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For the Record
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