Johnny's Barf Bags Web Site is a small collection put together by a young Israeli collector, Yonatan Chaim Mevorach. Apart from collecting bags, he is an ex-TicTac addict and took over 100 driving lessons before passing his driving test.

Visit Johnny at http://barfbags.netfirms.com

News from baggist Steve Silberberg:

I was contacted by a magazine called "Endless Vacation". The magazine wants to do an article about motion sickness and would like to interview people who get airsick, seasick, or even car sick. Can you refer anyone to the magazine?

So if you suffer from kinetosis (that's motion sickness to you and me), and you remember enough about your experiences to say something sensible, and you want to talk to the media about it, then contact Stacey McArthur, stacey.mcarthur_at_rci.com, or Steve at steve.silberberg_at_alum.mit.edu

Got a digital camcorder? Got some bags? Then here's your chance for 15 minutes of fame.

Utah reporter Peter Rosen wants to do a TV feature on barfbags. There don't seem to be any collectors in Utah, so he's hoping to interview bag collectors worldwide using their home video equipment.

Peter seems to go in for the weird and wacky... his previous stories have covered jokes told by violinists about viola players, mountain unicycling, and people who collect electric fans.

Contact Peter at KUTV.

Now there's a thought: how about a joint collection of barfbags and fans...?

Bagophily now uses a weblog ("blog") to update this News page. This should make updating easier, and will mean I can get developments in the fast-moving world of airsickness bags to you quicker than ever. Sometimes even before the news has happened itself.

I'll gradually shift all the News over to this new format.

Email from a police science institute: Could I please supply samples of my dogshit bag collection?

"Somebody tried to strangle a young man with a doggybag. This young man tried to take off the bag before dying. We found under the nails of the corpse some traces of plastic and we want to make sure it could be a doggy bag..."

Ewk - the poor victim... and what a way to die.

Naturally, I'm pleased to serve the cause of justice. I've chopped up my dogbags and have sent them off to the police institute. They've promised me more details when the case has gone through the courts.

Note: Using bags as an asphyxiation tool works only if they are made of plastic. Paper bags are not sufficiently robust, and are usually too small, to be either placed over the head or wrapped around the neck. (April 2004)

After many years of loyal service to the bagophile community, the old barfbag egroup has crashed: someone's computer has deluged it with junk mail, and the moderator has disappeared from the face of the earth.

So we've launched a new egroup, imaginatively called barfbags@yahoogroups.com. Sign up by filling in your email address to the left and clicking the button. Or send a blank email to barfbags-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. The group's website is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/barfbags.

Get messages on the latest developments in bagdom, news of swaps, conventions, cool websites, and more! Contribute yourself by sending an email to barfbag@yahoogroups.com. (April 2004)

As hordes of impatient bagophiles have noted, my swaps list is now desperately out of date. Blame pressure of work, or maybe my active social life. I hope to put together a new list in mid-June.

Sadly, the Turkmenistan Airlines bag is a standard generic Turkish bulanti torbasi. Contributor Ilse Koehler-Rollefson had to ask the cabin crew for this bag, and they were reluctant to give her one. They were even more reluctant to part company with a second one so I could keep one in reserve.