Flares into Darkness

Get ready for a locomotive weekend with Ringo Starr.  

Measured from sea level Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth. However, because the Earth has an equatorial bulge, measured from the...

Kissing her goldfish (click image to enlarge) True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. - Francois de La Roche...

Get ready for a lactose deficient weekend with High On Us.  

This video is from M'Lang which is on the island of Mindanao in southern Philippines. It shows the tedium of hard labor in the paddies...

Click any image to enlarge These are Dance of Death pictures by the 19th century British artist Thomas Rowlandson . The Dance of Death genre...

Click image to enlarge I'm not sure what kind of Easter message is delivered by babies using hammers to smash open eggs with live chicks...

Get ready for a surpassing weekend with Brain Distillers Corporation.  

A while back a scam baiting video popped up in my YouTube feed. In the video the supposed victim just babbled nonsense and toyed with ...

Click any image to enlarge These are pictures of restaurants, diners and street vendors from the mid 20th century. They feature both servers...

Get ready for a ghosted weekend with Accidental Charm.   

The person who runs the Solo Travel Japan YouTube channel takes an older overnight ferry from Kobe to Miyazaki in Japan. The sea portion o...

Click any image to enlarge Spread across the U.S. are a number o...

Get ready for an imploring weekend with Postmodern Jukebox featuring Sara Niemietz.  

My heart leaps up -- William Wordsworth The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural...

The above video is an old cowboy sitting in a field in the late afternoon, smoking a cigar and telling stories about smoking cigars. His st...

Get ready for an acidic weekend with Fools Garden.  

Ancient Egyptian wall carving of stalks of wheat Below is an excerpt from an old post of mine,  The staff of life . It was discussing wheat ...

Click any image to enlarge Cigarette companies used to include trading cards with their packages. These samples, and a few from a chocolate ...

This is a long video, but a very good one. It is film from a 4 masted barque  the Peking rounding Cape Horn in 1928. It was filmed by  Irvi...