Week Around the Ists
Image credit: AP Photo/Richard Vogel
- LAist saw how messy things can get when a naked suicidal man climbed atop a large cross and spent a few hours up there, hanging out and, well, pooping.
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Chicagoist talked to the mastermind behind Circus Cats.
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Londonist wondered if the entire city was really "aghast" over President Obama's supposed "snub" of Gordon Brown.
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Torontoist wrote about a curious new method of film promotion: filling full-page newspaper ads with YouTube comments made on a film's trailer.
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DCist wrote about McGruff the Crime Dog getting clocked.
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Bostonist had a geeky week that included both National Grammar Day and Square Root Day.
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Shanghaiist looked at the plight of China's xiaojies (prostitutes), who are many times more likely than the rest of the population to become homicide victims (40% of all murder victims in Beijing last year were xiaojies) and whose killings almost always remain unsolved.
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Gothamist asked mayoral hopeful Reverend Billy (of the Church of Stop Shopping) what he would do to stop Wal-Mart from entering NYC and he said, "I will take that company to the LAKE OF HELLFIRE!"
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SFist cheered after a local pizzeria reclaimed one-star Yelp reviews.
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Seattlest wondered where all the green jobs for the Evergreen State are hiding, 'cause they're not on job boards.