Flares into Darkness

Click any image to enlarge Robert Mitchum is one of my favorite movie actors. He was active during the 1940s to the 1960s. Playing both her...

Get ready for a kooky weekend with Madeleine Peyroux.  

This is a video that shows rice cultivation from planting, harvesting, processing, packaging and eventually cooking. It is a Taiwanese comm...

Click any image to enlarge These images are from a late 19th Century album,  One hundred portraits of Peking opera characters , showing the ...

Get ready for an exuberant weekend with Lucky Chops featuring Leo P.    

The Australian funnel-web spider is one of the most venomous of all spiders. In this video their venum is collected to make an antidote fo...

Click any image to enlarge Albert Bierstadt was a 19th century American painter who specialized in landscapes of the American West. He was ...

Get ready for a pariah's weekend with The Stray Birds.  

This video shows a morning of the Sumo Club at Kinki University. Most of it involves a couple of underclassman cooking breakfast for the cl...

Click any image to enlarge Some people are so mentally deficient that they cannot, on their own, function in normal society. This is the res...

Get ready for a slipped through your fingers weekend with Shiva Lamichhane and C-waz.  

The widget I used for Followers stopped working properly. I couldn't find a solution or work-around to the problem, so I've remov...

4th of July fireworks We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with c...

Click any image to enlarge Summer and the July 4th weekend is upon us, so we are well into the picnic season. Picnics can be either social, ...

Get ready for a post-nuclear weekend with Enzo S. Esposito.  

Today we take a stroll in the village of Nungwi on the northern tip of Zanzibar. We start in what I think is a residential area with shops ...

Click any image to enlarge One of the features of the Neolithic Age was the domestication of plants and animals. Two main economic styles re...

Get ready for an aspirational weekend with Trúc Nhân and Mew Amazing featuring Thùy Tiên and Tiến Linh.  

These days a player piano is little but a curiosity for a collector to own. However, prior to the phonograph they had a purpose in that th...

Punt Gun The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in...