Flares into Darkness

Not that, considering my flakey posting schedule, anybody would notice, but I'll be off-line for a while. I'm having outpatient su...

Get ready for an abolitionist weekend with Solomon Burke and the Blind Boys of Alabama.   

Leon Czolgosz in custody On this day in 1901 the anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley. From History's  T...

In these videos a fellow by the name of Steve opens and samples WWII combat rations. Not sure I would be that pleased to munch on a 70 yea...

I'm retired so's my days of laboring for the man, water-cooler gossip, punch clocks and tedious office politics are behind me. Sti...

Click any image to enlage These are the photographs of Marvin Rand, a mid 20th Century photographer who specialized in architectural pho...

Get ready for a beserk weekend with BeKy.

Click any image to enlarge Recently U.S. States hither and yon are legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational use. These are post...

A couple walk through Katmandu headed to Durbar Square. As they mention, there is a lot of beeping by the vehicles. Also, the subtitles t...

Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra  Manjusri, a bodhisattva should regard all living beings as a wise man Regards the reflection of the moon in...

Get ready for a hallucinogenic weekend with Valentino Khan.

Click any image to enlarge This post pretty much exists for no other purpose than for me to use that title for it. Anyway, these are the...

In above video Ben Krasnow builds a refrigerator using rubber bands as the cooling element. Of course it doesn't provide a lot of cool...

Click any image to enlarge In this new age of neo-Puritanism with many, many sins to punish -- misidentifying one of the 1200 genders, i...

Above is a video of a woman giving a tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station. My previous knowledge of Antarctic stations came from ...

Get ready for a watchful weekend with Hatune MikuV3 and Megurine Luka.  

Click any image to enlarge Here, and after the jump are a number of covers of Aviation Week which, depending on the date, is  also known...

This video uses animated etchings from the period to show the 15 year process of designing, casting and installing a monumental statue of...