Flares into Darkness

Click image to enlarge Tomorrow is New Year's Eve so I've started planning my New Year's Eve party. Above is my inspiration....

Click any image to enlarge I live in Florida, so aurora borealis displays are something I am not familiar with. That said, I guess I fit...

Get ready to be put in your place this weekend with The Barberettes.

Time to work off our excess holiday calories with a little walking. 'Course sitting in a chair and watching a YouTube video of somebod...

Christmas celebration of a U-boat crew by Felix Schwormstadt, 1915 (click image to enlarge) In my younger years I spent a few Christ...

By this time of the year I imagine most of us have heard some of the same Christmas music over and over again. With that in mind I usually...

Cover for Rex Stout's Christmas Party Murder (click image to enlarge) After all, what is your host's purpose in having a pa...

Get ready to retire to the fainting couch this weekend with Ray Charles and Betty Carter.

Library confusion, by Sam Hood, 1952 (click image to enlarge) Medieval book curses: If anyone take away this book, let him die th...

As somebody who won't live in a climate where palm trees can't thrive I'm a bit disturbed at the thought of living somewhere w...

Turbo jet engine (click any image to enlarge) These are a few kits from Engine DIY , a company that sells RC and model engine kits. ...

Spend the weekend looking over your shoulder with Stares.

A Bengali couple cooks a meal of Climbing Perch Fish Curry. It is a simple meal. They start by catching the fish in the mud of a rice padd...

Click any image to enlarge The Auto Wash Bowl  was an early approach to commercially washing cars. Because so many roads back then were ...

Click image to enlarge On the morning of December 7, 1941, I had relieved the watch in the port engine room [of the USS Utah]. I had ...

Get ready to coax this weekend with Adam Ben Ezra.

Click any image to enlarge These are color advertisements for Greyhound Bus from the mid 1940s to the mid 1950s. The early ads focus on ...

Click image to enlarge To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. ― Confucius

Because it follows the Thanksgiving holiday this Friday isn't really the start of a weekend, so I will forgo my usual Friday video and...