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Ring Cycle - Superheroes, Steroids and Suicides

fearfulsymmetry — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:28:17 -0800

"'It's been a magical evening,' Joel says as the Great Khali hits the Undertaker with a dustbin lid." Jon Ronson (and son) journey into the world of WWE to investigate the death of Chris Benoit.

Your child was sold into slavery in Japan

ClanvidHorse — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:25:25 -0800

Jon Ronson on a cruise with controversial psychic Sylvia Browne.

The Worst Swearword in the World

rongorongo — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:02:35 -0800

Jon Ronson decides "I'm going to tell my son the worst swearword in the world". His follow up article is also interesting. Incidentally, his "Bad Science" colleague from The Guardian did uncover a list of the worst swearwords from the BBC no less (and previously)

Here's Jonny.

Blue Stone — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:28:07 -0800

Still looking for Rosebud. Nine Years after sending a copy of a radio programme he made to Stanley Kubrick, Jon Ronson, is invited to the late Kubrick's "secret lair". You drive through rural Hertfordshire, passing ordinary-sized postwar houses and opticians and vets. Then you turn right at an electric gate with a "Do Not Trespass" sign. Drive through that, and through some woods, and past a long, white fence with the paint peeling off, and then another electric gate, and then another electric gate, and then another electric gate, and you're in the middle of an estate full of boxes. [...] Tony takes me into a large room painted blue and filled with books. "This used to be the cinema," he says. "Is it the library now?" I ask. "Look closer at the books," says Tony. I do. "Bloody hell," I say.