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Saturday, February 6, 2010
Greetings fellow Bizarros:
I could understand goth clubs. I could understand gay
clubs and bondage clubs. I could even understand swinging
clubs, but what I do not understand are crying clubs.
In some circles this has actually become hip and popular.
It's called 'Emo' for emotional and the whole idea is to
express your darker, more depressed emotions. And now
there are clubs where you can go to commiserate and cry
with other Emos.
Against a backdrop of crashing choral music and candle-
light, a group of elaborately costumed young women are
dabbing their eyes with a handkerchief, their mascara
running to form black rivulets down their cheeks. It is
not difficult to see why they are so distressed: in front
of them, a mound of pungent onions is being vigorously and
elaborately chopped by a serious-looking young man in a
tailcoat, and the fumes are overwhelming.
But then that's precisely the point. The 300 or so 20 and
30-somethings in the crowd at this candlelit 17th-century
wine vault, tucked away off a busy London thoroughfare, are
here to do just that.
Billed as 'an evening of exquisite misery', this is where
clubbers can go to indulge their inner gloom. The onions
are there to help them along a bit, should they struggle
to shed their British reserve.
The club, called 'Loss' is one of a new breed of crying
clubs to arrive in the UK from Japan, where tears have
become something of an industry in recent years.
Crying in public has even caught on in the United States,
too. Although no U.S. entrepreneurs have opened any clubs
yet.
Of course, if you actually have a life you don't need to
invent excuses or create venues to cry in. A second
mortgage, one kid in college and two more getting ready
for college, a receding hairline and a fond reminiscence
for the halcyon days of middle age should be enough to
make any man cry.
Bizarrely,
Lewis
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-------------- Drugs found in melon at jail --------------
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---------- Deputy not fooled by carpool mannequin ----------
ISLANDIA, N.Y. - Deputies in New York's Suffolk County
said a woman was ticketed for driving in a carpool lane
alone with a mannequin disguised as a passenger. Mike
Sharkey, Suffolk County Sheriff's Office chief of staff,
said Deputy Robert Howard was driving Tuesday on the Long
Island Expressway in Islandia when he grew suspicious of
a car in the high-occupancy vehicle lane because the
passenger was wearing a visor and sunglasses despite the
cloudy weather, Newsday reported Thursday. Sharkey said
Howard pulled over Kathleen Frascinella, 61, of Mount
Sinai, N.Y., and discovered her only passenger was a
mannequin dressed in clothing including a blazer and a
scarf. Frascinella was issued a $135 citation for operating
a vehicle in the HOV lane without a passenger. "At first
glance, this may seem humorous, but it is not a joking
matter when you drive off with a ticket," Sheriff Vincent
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READER COMMENTS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Lewis: Every country imports some products or natural
resources and in order to remain solvent to the rest of
the world has to be able to offset imports with exports
dollar for dollar. The true wealth in a nation is derived
from exports not imports. You cannot import wealth and
America has long ago priced itself out of the world export
market on manufacturing and we have few exportable natural
resources except agriculture and the rest of the world
expects us to give that away. I am afraid most our pro-
blems in the U.S. are a helluva lot bigger than the federal
reserve. -Dennis
[The U.S. was an industrial powerhouse before and it can
be again. All of the problems are linked together!]
Lewis...have you seen "Freedom to Fascism"? It's really
spooky stuff about our world and our government in
particular. It'll make you realize there are only two
things with real value, gold and guns. I can't afford
gold, but there's a sale on guns and they have financing.
Thanks, Prepared Paranoia
[That's why the founding fathers guaranteed our right to
bear arms.]
Lewis, "I believe that banking institutions are more
dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the
American people ever allow private banks to control the
issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by
deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up
around the banks will deprive the people of all property
until their children wake-up homeless on the continent
their fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson 1802
Over 200 years ago and we still don't get it. Hate to get
political on such a good column. Keep up the great work!
-Todd
Crap, Lewis, I understood the fiat system before but the
way you describe it makes it sinister and frightening.
Time to step up the plan for a sustainable, off the grid
lifestyle...
[Sinister is a great word do describe it.]
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