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Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, medical marvels, scientific wonders, strange facts or just plain weird, weird goings-on.

Have you ever heard of the Los Lunas Stone? Yeah, us neither, until recently. It’s a rock weighing over eighty tons with what could be the oldest inscription of the ten commandments in the world. It’s written in Paleo-Hebrew, and it’s in the middle of the United States of America. Did we mention it predates Columbus?

Who were the first non-American Indians to discover America? Was it Columbus in 1492? Was it the Vikings hundreds of years earlier? Was it the Portuguese, Chinese, or Japanese?

The answer there is that no-one knows. But one thing we do know is that an awful long time ago someone carved a bunch of Hebrew on a rock that weighs more than an 80 ton stack of cars, in Los Lunas, New Mexico.

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Big news! hecklerspray is going on a transatlantic roadtrip to report all that is great, mediocre and terrible about the good ol’ US of A.

Along the way, we’ll be offering our opinion on bands and records from where ever we are - maybe Bruce "two fifty up the ass" Springsteen in New Jersey, for example.

It’s going to be a kind of Rolling Thunder review from city to coast, from mountain range to Hicksville, from a yard-sale to a Hooters bar.

And this is where you come in. We need to know the best clubs, the eateries with the biggest portions, the bbq shacks, the cocktail bars, the department store with the big piano that Tom Hanks jumped on in Big… anything! It’s like Holiday You Call The Shots, but with much less Kate Thornton. And that’s got to be a good thing.

If you tell us where to go, we’ll do our damnedest to get there. So far, we know we want to:

1) Ride a yellow school bus. And if it’s going to Springfield Elementary, all the better.

2) Sing the theme tune to The West Wing loudly in front of The White House.

The adventure begins on Monday, when hecklerspray arrives in Boston.

hecklerspray needs your help! What should we do and where should we go in Boston, or anywhere else in America? Leave your suggestions below.