Weird US

Weird US
Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman

Have to say it- weird book! I love the wierdnj.com website, so I was pretty sure I would like this book. And it is a good book. There are sections I skip, because they seem too much like urban legends and I'll go to snopes.com if I want to read urban legends. But many of the stories are extremely interesting. I especially love the story about the town that is on fire underground. There's some mine system under the town and the mines have been burning for years and supposedly will be for years to come. I wonder if it's any warmer there in the winter? But my favorite story is the one about America's one and only emperor, who declared himself that in San Francisco and "reigned" for quite a few years. The book says he may have been crazy, but I think he may have been completely sane! He got free food, made the newspapers, was in parades, etc. He even tried to dissolve Congress (yeah, good luck with that one). I'm about seventy-five percent convinced that he was really smart and knew exactly what he was doing.
8/10