Two Long Island weeklies saw an unusual spike in sales last week when to mystery shoppers bought out all of the Suffolk Times and the Riverhead News-Review from 7-11′s and bagel shops throughout the county. The two still-yet unidentified print fanatics picked up almost 4,000 copies of the September 22 issue from nearly 30 establishments, because, well, no one really knows why.

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Minnesota got a special treat recently when a billboard depicting a jolly-looking former Pres. George W. Bush appeared over Interstate 35 asking, “Miss me yet?”

The idea was too surreal to actually exist for many people who called “Photoshop” at first sight, but NPR confirmed yesterday that it was, in fact, looming over the Minnesota landscape, waving uncomfortably to drivers on their way to work.