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...Perhaps the strangest thing about Rudy's collapse was the candidate himself. The rap on Rudy was always that he was a successful mayor but a nasty man; the critics never understood that his nastiness helped make him a successful mayor. He never spent much time worrying whether reporters or interest groups or The People loved him. ("If people like my personality, thank you," he fumed to a room full of reporters the first time I saw him in action. "If you don't, I really don't care.") He wanted a city that worked, and he pursued that goal...
...permissions and clearances; passes and badges of various colors and sizes. And what is clear is that the closer and higher you are to the U.S. military the easier you move, the smoother you glide through to the beast's belly: the U.S. embassy. It is the tackiest, strangest circus attraction this side of Vegas. A Starbucks-like coffee shop with baristas from Madras sells cappuccinos in the main rotunda. Heavy blast-proof doors - identical to those at U.S. embassies around the world - are fitted into the regal marble lintels Saddam built...
...enjoys his minor celebrity status. “People talk about you as if you’re some sort of athlete” he says. He’s entered competitions with pizza, jalapeños, cannoli, crab cakes, grilled cheese, and hot dogs. “The strangest food would be something I signed up for and didn’t participate in: pig’s feet,” Mih says. Every super-eater has his Kryptonite and Mih met his at a steeple chase, which involves several rounds of different food...
...anthology “Trapped Ashes” on opening night. In four segments, it follows a group of strangers on a Hollywood studio tour who find themselves caught inside the decaying set of an infamous old horror film. In order to get out alive, they must tell their strangest and most twisted stories. Writer and producer Dennis Bartok left his position as head programmer at the art house American Cinematheque in Los Angeles to work on the film. “It’s about the grotesque, the surreal and the erotic, the weird intersection between real life...
...kink & bdsm”? (Anywhere forums are categorized alphabetically, I suppose.) Craigslist standard policy gives each poster an e-mail address from which all replies are forwarded to his or her actual account, thereby providing a level of guaranteed anonymity that brings out the best, worst, and strangest in those...