Flares into Darkness

Click any image to enlarge These pictures look like they are stills from an old film noir movie, but these are actual crime scene photos...

Get ready for an off-kilter weekend with Drew D'Agostino.

The  Chain of Being of phones A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- th...

A group of people in Nepal cook and eat a meal. A comment to the video that I translated says it was a meal of chicken, soup with millet f...

Get ready for a certain weekend with The Coffis Brothers & the Mountain Men.   

Click any image to enlarge Deborah Griscom Passmore , pictured below, was an artist who worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (U...

A tale of loneliness defeated and true love blossoming. Also, along with the poignant story and the beautiful locations for their dates, t...

Get ready for a wistful weekend with Elise Trouw.     

My YouTube feed recommendations are frequently a look into bizarre corners of the internet. I think it is YouTube's algorithm struggli...

Get ready for languorous weekend with Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.   

Click any image to enlarge These are romance magazine covers from the early and mid 20th century. It is striking that so few of them fea...

Illustration from Hysteria and Certain Allied Conditions (click image to enlarge) Based on the data, there seems to be no relationshi...

The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées is a historic exhibition hall in Paris. It features extensive glass domed ceilings and elaborate ironw...

Get ready for a carnal weekend with Lera Lynn.

Click any image to enlarge In 1964 General Dynamics Astronautics released a space themed deck of playing cards. As material with the dec...

Get ready for a balmy weekend with Los Gigs   

Click any image to enlarge  The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she s...

Engine room departure preparation for a large 180,000 ton DWT bulk carrier . The noise level is incredible. I wonder how hot it it gets in...

Prim, Foon, Art, Peun, and Chompoo in happier times Edit to add: I've noticed a lot of people are coming to this page via Google. It ...