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The Cincinnati Labyrinth Project

Everyone check out this project my friend Sergey Kahn is working on— it’s really cool! The aim of the project is to sell the Cincinnati Bengals and Paul Brown Stadium and convert the property into a giant stone labyrinth. Here’s an excerpt from the site:

The labyrinth has long stood as a powerful symbol for the tortuous duality of the human predicament. On the one hand, the labyrinth represents the delusion and entrapment that man is condemned to wander. Preeminent labyrinthologist Phillip Ambrose Walker, in his seminal work Finding the Center: The Legends and Legacies of Labyrinths, has described the structure as “embodying man’s fundamental state of being lost.” On the other hand, the labyrinth expresses man’s ongoing pilgrimage towards meaning, discovery, and order. Contemporary labyrinth theorist Stephon Crete has described the labyrinth as “charged with a salvific magnetism on the order of man’s most alluring archetypes of redemption.”

In keeping with the rich, storied, and conflicting meanings of the labyrinth, we here at the Cincinnati Labyrinth Project believe that the labyrinth can serve as powerful symbol for our own more recent and more regional predicament: the delusion and entrapment we face in the Cincinnati Bengals…

Click here to check out the project’s official website and if whether you live in the Cincinnati area or not, show them some love for this unique art project!

Why do the Lions and Cowboys always play football on Thanksgiving?

Really interesting article on MentalFloss.com about why the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always end up playing NFL football games on Thanksgiving…

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson legally changes his last name to “Ocho Cinco”

From ESPN.com…

CINCINNATI — Maybe receiver Chad Johnson can go by the name that his head coach hates.

The Cincinnati Bengals receiver has legally changed his name to Chad Javon Ocho Cinco in Broward County, Fla., a switch that became official this week. Johnson, who lives in Miami, didn’t return a message left on his cell phone Friday night.

“It’s something I don’t think anyone has ever done before,” he told the team’s Web site. “Have I ever had a reason for why I do what I do? I’m having fun.”

Two years ago, Johnson gave himself the moniker — a reference in Spanish to his No. 85 — and put it on the back of his uniform before a game. Quarterback Carson Palmer ripped it off before the kickoff. After the season, coach Marvin Lewis — who dislikes Johnson’s attention-getting stunts — referred to the receiver as “Ocho Psycho.”

Bengals spokesman Jack Brennan said the Bengals had no comment on the matter.

Click here for the full story

Click here to read Chad Johnson’s updated Wikipedia article (every mention of “Johnson” has been changed to “Ocho Cinco”…)