The 21st-Century
Adventures of Tintin.

BY NEIL GRAF (McSweeney's 08/02)

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Tintin Interferes in the Georgian Election

Tintin in Darfur

Tintin Blames America First

Prescription Drugs of the Canadians

The Chinese Environmental Nightmare

The Venezuelan Tin Ear

The African-American Island

President Milošević's Sceptre

The Ecstasy Being Smuggled by American Servicemen in the Persian Gulf Is Packed in Cigars Imprinted With the Crab With the Golden Claws

Ha! You Actually CAN Sail to the North Pole Now

The Secret of UNESCO

Singaporean Pirate's Treasure

The Seven-Crystal Meth

Prisoners in Guantánamo

Land of Iraqi Gold

Destination Reverend Moon's Congressional Influence

Explorers Flipping Over Because of Faulty Firestone Tires

The Bordurians Kicked Out the Weapons Inspectors After the Calculus Affair and Now We Will Have to Disarm Them

The Iranian Speedboat Sharks

Tintin Parties at the Everest Base Camp

The Gypsies Did Not Actually Steal the Emerald

Hi, I'm Captain John Travolta, Welcome to Flight 714

Tintin and the Zapatistas

Tintin Doesn't Understand Art

in honour of how much i am in love with halloween and my general ecstaticness/creativity level right now:

from drowninginwords

the first five people to respond to this post will get some form of art, by me.

please provide suggestions and it also may end up being a while before you recieve it...but you shall.

from minstrel666:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List six neat facts, four births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.

June 28th

EVENTS
1859: First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. (Conformation=conforming to breed standards within 1 breed)
1960: US-owned oil refineries in Cuba confiscated and nationalized.
1964: Macolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1969: Stonewall riots in New York city mark the beginning of the modern gay rights era.
2001: Slobodan Milošević transferred to United Nations custody.
2005: Same sex marriage passes in the House of Commons in Canada.


BIRTHDAYS
Henry VIII (1491)...King of England (the one who went through 6 wives)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712)...philosopher ("Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." - The Social Contract)
Mel Brooks (1926) ...actor/writer/director/producer (The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs)
Gilda Radner (1946) ...comedian (Second City in Toronto, later part of SNL)


DEATHS
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie (1914)...one of the triggers of WWI
Terry Fox (1981) ...Canadian cancer activist

better late than never...

jes_sic_a's Halloween party:

al_lison dressed as Cameron Diaz.
candytrixie dressed as a pixie, though it looked more like a character from Harry Potter and the Cloak of Wrath.
care_42 dressed as Hurricane Stuart.
cellardoor13 dressed as a linebacker for the Falcons.
drowninginwords dressed as a Level 3 wizard.
frostedangel dressed as Franklin D. Roosevelt.
headspider dressed as the Eternal Power Ranger.
lilmisshardcore dressed as a computer.
llamanostrils dressed as a disturbing self-made character called "Stinky Monkeybrains".
mr_flabulous dressed as a police officer.
mycrimsonregret dressed as the President of Sweden.
o__ dressed as Rudy Giuliani's mother-in-law.
redhed4ever dressed as Lt. Cmdr. Data from "Star Trek".
samsonromero dressed as Mary-Kate Olsen with her very own conjoined Ashley.
schroedingrscat dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Unlucky Lover.
sitonthetable dressed as the spirit of their dead grandmother Tasha.
suchagoodexcuse dressed as Prince riding a horse.
ver_sus dressed as something social, but what, specifically, you can't tell.

Throw your own party at the Hallomeme!
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