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Joshuah Bearman
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The Ex-President’s Argo
My friend Jonathan loaned his copy of Argo to George H. W. Bush, who loved it.
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a very smart little man in an evening dress suit
George Murray Levick, in the early twentieth century, on Scott’s expedition to antarctica: “When seen for the first time, the Adélie penguin gives you the impression of a very smart little man in an evening dress suit, so absolutely immaculate…
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There’s a black hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster and it’s singing a sad tune in the key of B flat
Actually, its entire tune is the note B-flat, but 57 octaves lower than middle-C, or one million billion lower than what the human ear can hear. It is “the deepest note ever detected from an object in the Universe.”
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“The world is one magical motherfucker.”
From the Bill Hicks Story. Who are you? And why are you here?
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The last place where the post office tries to decipher your bad handwriting
Or just impossible addresses, like “the one addressed to the house ‘down the street from the drugstore on the corner’ or one intended for ‘the place next to the red barn.’”
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R.I.P. Harry Weathersby Stamps, ladies’ man, natty dresser, accomplished traveler, hater of Daylight Savings Time
A wildly entertaining obit from the Biloxi Sun Herald: He despised phonies, his 1969 Volvo (which he also loved), know-it-all Yankees, Southerners who used the words “veranda” and “porte cochere” to put on airs, eating grape leaves, Law and Order…
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The Other Argo
In 2007 Rumpus pal Joshuah Bearman wrote a Wired article that became the movie Argo. Originally there was a different opening to this article, called The Bond Opening.
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Baghdad Country Club
The following is an excerpt from “Baghdad Country Club” by Joshuah Bearman. You can find the full story on The Atavist. *** Iraqis have a word, barra, which means “out there,” and for those lucky enough to be inside the Green Zone…
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Man Has Sex with 1000 Cars!
Or: Looks like someone caught the Love Bug! (Get it?) Seriously, for real.