Flares into Darkness

I researched inappropriate Halloween costumes on the web and am pretty sure the above image does not run afoul of any PC sins. Well, mayb...

I'm not all that familiar with the snack food Pringles. I've eaten them a few times and they seemed to be wonky tasting potato ch...

Get ready for a moonlit weekend with Leon Redbone.   

In 1894 the use, or misuse, of a Ouija board led to a lawsuit -- The State of Indiana vs. Eva Doty and Nora Doty. From Strange Company...

Obsidian is a type of volcanic glass that was frequently used to make stone tools . Obsidian stone tools, which could be knives, scraper...

Click any image to enlarge Bicycles have been around since Baron Karl von Drais's "Running Machine" built in 1817. It wa...

Get ready for a DNA testing weekend with Charlie Pride.   

Click image to enlarge The crowd at the ball game - William Carlos Williams  The crowd at the ball game is moved uniformly by a sp...

One of my favorite things about Asian cities are their street food vendors. These videos are taken from the YouTube channel Street Food On...

Get ready for a hopping weekend with Paul Anka.   

Click any image to enlarge Vintage robots are always pretty silly looking. This small samplings them on comic book covers. They are from...

Click image to enlarge A quick update on my recovery: as regular visitors know I recently had an operation that has greatly slowed down ...

Get ready for a delirious weekend with Too Many Zooz. 

Get ready for a weekend of blubbering with Thelma Houston.

I mentioned a while back that I was having some surgery and would be off-line while I recovered. The surgery went well. My recovery -- wh...

From Patricia Morrison's recollections of the 911 attack in the post WTC RIP : I forced myself up to the roof again that night to l...

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...