Category Archives: culture

Rent a White Guy

By RobGrant | Published: 17/07/2010

If the original source story this is based on is true – and I've no reason to suppose it isn't – then it's great material for the basis of a number of stories and it could go pretty much any direction. Basically, for a lot of companies in China, recruiting fake businessmen or having foreigners [...]

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Russians To Offer Pirate-Hunting Cruises

By RobGrant | Published: 12/06/2010

I loved this headline as soon as I saw it because the screenplay possibilities are almost endless. At the time that it first surfaced it was syndicated and referenced and copied all over the web, and although it has subsequently been unveiled as a satire courtesy of this fake USA website (which just goes to [...]

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Girl Gangsters Of 19th Century Manhattan

By RobGrant | Published: 01/06/2010

The criminal gangs of New York in the 1800s were predominantly made up of young men, but they also had female members, some of whom were notorious fighters. I came across this fascinating snippet at Ephemeral New York, and given all the hoop-la around Gangs Of New York when it came out, I can’t believe [...]

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