Far out: If life in the city is getting you down, could the vast, mowed trenches of suburbia be the solution to your downtown blues? Burbia, with the tagline “Living on the edge… of the patio” could give you the answer, yes or no. It’s a guide to the weird side of suburban living, complete with a Safari (kind of like Vice’s Dos and Don’ts, but for houses… and no Dos), Rants (ranging from Costco bills to single life in the suburbs, such that it is) and overheard conversations that will make you chuckle while panic-strickenly looking at the St-Henri rental listings at www.burbia.com.
Creature feature: There are some weird-lookin’ animals out there, make no mistake. Some guys on sharenator.com posted a bunch of them, including a pancake-like turtle, the elephant shrew, which looks like the offspring of a mouse and a pencil, and the pink fairy armadillo, which despite its fluffy-sounding name, looks like a gigantic killer flea, plus those orange self-tanning guys from New Jersey at www.sharenator.com/Worlds_strangest_looking_animals/.
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