July Bookmarks

July 5 - Running Of The Nudes
Pamplona, Spain. To protest the annual Running of the Bulls two days later, thousands of naked animal rights activists follow the same route.


July 6 to 8 - Wife Carrying World Championships
Sonkajärvi, Finland. If you win you get the equivalent of your wife's weight in beer.





July 7 - Redneck Games
East Dublin, Georgia. Events include the Hubcap Hurl, Dumpster Dive, Bobbing for Pigs Feet, and the Mud Pit Belly Flop.



July 14 - Mid Atlantic Hermit Crab Challenge
Virginia Beach, Virginia. Highlights include the Crustacean 500 race and the Miss Curvaceous Crustacean competition.

July 18 to 23 - 12th Annual Telluride Nothing Festival
Telluride, Colorado. Proceedings include Sunrises, Sunsets and Gravity.



July 26 to 28 - Annual Great Texas Mosquito Festival
Clute, Texas



July 29 - Fiesta of the Near Death Experience
As Neves, Spain. People who flatlined and came back are carried by relatives and friends in coffins through the streets to a church. And back, presumably.