Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe ANNUAL BLESSING OF THE MOTORCYCLES About 2,000 motorcycles rolled through the 23rd annual motorcycle blessing in Hamburg, N.Y., by Father Butch. Advertisement Sponsored by The Hog Farm, a western New York Harley Davidson dealer, each motorcycle, whether a hog or not, got blessed with holy water. Each biker donated $10 that went to the charity Camp Good Days and Special Times, reports WIVB-TV in Buffalo, N.Y. Many businesses donated door prizes and there was a festive party afterward, however, the announcement warned: "No dogs, No cars, No weapons, No attitudes." BIZARRE BOOK FAIR The book, "The Big Problem With Small Organs, is featured at the Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia in London -- a book fair of bizarre books. "The idea started at a book fair 10 years ago," Brian Lake, owner of Jarndyce Books, tells the Daily Telegraph. "Every bookseller has a book that he's had stuck in stock for years." Some of the books include: "Progressive Afghanistan," published in 1933; "You Can Make A Stradivarius Violin" and 1934's "Correctly English in Hundred Days," written for the "Chinese young man who wishes to serve for the foreign firm and it contains full of ordinary speak and write language." Advertisement Some books given innocent titles take on new meanings such as: "Flashes From The Welsh Pulpit," "Play With Your Own Marbles" and "Scouts in Bondage." SCHOOL CEILING COLLAPSES When teachers and students arrived at an Albany, N.Y., middle school they found the ceiling over a circular courtyard next to the school cafeteria had completely collapsed. No one was injured, because the ceiling fell after staff had locked the building at night and before the school opened. Hundreds of pounds of steel and plaster had to be cleared away before the 700 students at the Albany School for the Humanities could use the cafeteria. The school's principal tells WRGB-TV in Albany that she became emotional when she thought what might have happened if the collapse had occurred during school hours. The school says it appears condensation may have built up in the ceiling, loosening it and causing a domino collapsing effect. STALIN GREAT GRANDSON TO MAKE FILM The great grandson of Russia's Joseph Stalin, Vissarion Djugashvili, wants to make a movie about the "American dream." "Now I want to make a short film about the American dream. This will be a sad and at the same time, happy love story, " he tells Novosti, the Russian government news agency. "I want to resemble my personal feelings of life here in the states into a playful film." Advertisement Djugashvili, a film maker, recently presented his documentary "Yakov -- the Stalin's son" in Washington, Pravda reports. According to the cinematographer, he has mixed feelings toward Stalin, whom he calls "a man of his word and deed."
