Many years ago I wrote a piece about how travel broadens the mind (and Warrington kills it). Looking back through my travel pix I noticed more unusual things worth sharing, so here it is.
This is literally the equivalent of show and tell, using the stuff you find in your pockets. I'm so burnt out :(
Sideways DVDs on sale in Spain.
So far as I can tell (after literally some research) this is only happening in Spain, and perhaps Spanish speaking countries. Why make sideways DVDs? Well, why make vertical ones? And for that matter, why put the North Pole at the top of the map? Why not the bottom, or even the side? And then it hits you: in the whole wide universe, which way is up? The way our magnetic north faces? But why? And then you picture rotating the universe on its head, just because of a weird promotion in a Spanish mall. When I said travelling expands your mind, I meant it in the drugs way.
Things I learned from Berlin:
-Their little green crossing man wears a hat
-At least one mall has a toilet that rotates and cleans the seat
-There's a man dressed as the Predator (or the Predator himself) outside the Brandenburg Gate:
The best clock in the world: as the man's sword arm drops, the globe rotates, leaving the monkey pointing to the current hour.
See that strip of green in the distance? That's the fabled Green River melon fields.
Every year in September Green River, Utah, hosts a Melon Days festival, during which the town swells to literally thousands of people. Highlights include a large carved effigy of a melon slice being carted through the town as a float. I was so sad I couldn't make it this year that I went to the movies instead.
The toilets in Sun Studio are shaped like guitars.
This is so cool, it makes me want to spend even more time on the crapper, preferably reading Tim Gautreux and listening to "Walk the Line" or "Mystery Train". Goddamn I love America (srs).
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