Tag Archives: weirdness

CNN reports that a passenger boarded a Hong Kong flight bound for Canada looking like an elderly white man, but after take-off he returned from the plane’s restroom as himself, a young Asian man. It’s all very Mission: Impossible. The incident occurred on October 29 on Air Canada flight AC018 to Vancouver originating in Hong Kong. An intelligence alert from …

This clip has been on YouTube for a few weeks, but it’s too hypnotically strange and beautiful not to pass along. Very Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle. The music sounds exactly like Antony & The Johnsons to me, but it’s the Irrepressibles. Possibly NSFW.

Released today on iTunes, all proceeds to Pakistan.

You totally have to wait for the howl-lelujahs.

Motorized gyroscopically balanced unicycles. For when the Segway isn’t dorky enough. (Tipped by JMG reader Merv)

An Islamic cleric in Saudi Arabia has issued one of the most bizarre fatwas yet. Via Salon: As many of us know, women and men in Saudi Arabia must be careful not to mingle, as the insanely strict Islamic law bans mixing between the sexes who are not related. Recently, the Saudis have issued a fatwa that forces women who …

While desperate American mail their gold jewelery to corporate scamsters in return for cash, a hotel in Abu Dhabi has installed an ATM machine that dispenses tiny gold bars when you feed it money. Because there’s so little conspicuous consumption in the region. (Tipped by JMG reader JM)

At the request of the family of the deceased, a funeral home in Puerto Rico posed the embalmed body of a motorcycle enthusiast astride his favorite ride. Beyond creepy. (Tipped by JMG reader Chris)

Ellen DeGeneres had her own category on a recent episode of Family Feud. “Name something that everybody knows about Ellen.” The contestant family’s patriarch stunned all with his response.

Possibly NSFW.

New music from the strange Kansas City dance/punk collective Ssion. I don’t know what this is, but I like it.

I never heard of this phenomenon until Rachel Maddow covered it the other day, but a quick search on YouTube reveals hundreds of clips of dogs howling to the Law & Order theme song. So strange.

Koldcast has posted their Top 20 Weirdest Apartment Buildings, of which I really dig the above complex in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where it looks like you really could fall out of the windows.

“Fever Ray is Karin Dreijer Andersson of the Swedish electronic duo The Knife.”

If you’re the South Carolina Assistant Attorney General, naturally you flee from the police when they find you in a cemetery with an 18-year old stripper, a bag of sex toys, and a pocketful of Viagra. Filed under: You Can’t Make This Up.

Disgraced former GOP House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who resigned in 2006 in a cloud of criminal charges over campaign finance shenanigans, will be a contestant on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars. SRSLY. Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will participate in the upcoming season of “Dancing with the Stars,” facing off against pop singer Aaron …

How have we missed knowing that NY Sen. Ruben Diaz has two gay brothers? New York Magazine also reports that Diaz is a huge fan of Liza Minnelli and got visibly choked up when she performed the classic paean to drag, What Makes a Man a Man?, while attending a show with “one of his closest friends,” a co-founder of …

Wikipedia: Parkour derives from parcours du combattant, the classic obstacle course method of military training.

Strangely fantastic. Love the bit with Katie Couric. You may recall a similar clip about Sarah Palin that I posted last year. That one is still in my favorites file.

Today in bizarre police news: A convicted child molester was found naked and bleeding behind a Brooklyn building – a victim of sexual self-mutilation, police sources said. Sources said that Damiene Iriarte, 26, was found in Fort Greene with the tip of his penis bitten off. “How he did it? Limber, I guess. Not the work of a sane mind,” …