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Plexiglass Pontiac, 1939
I’ve posted pictures from World’s Fairs before; you can see some taken by my uncle (go ndéanai Día trocaire air) of the 1939 exhibition. The plexiglass Pontiac “Ghost Car” was proudly exhibited at the...
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Celebrities as Classic Paintings, Annotated
Recently over at reddit a list of photos appeared showing modern-day celebrities photoshopped onto classic paintings. The list appeared over at Imgur, but without any annotation. Various redditors...
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In Praise of the Crossword
100 years ago this weekend, Arthur Wynne invented the crossword puzzle, as celebrated in today’s Google Doodle, an interactive puzzle which took me 28 minutes and 36 seconds to solve. I’ve been a...
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LDS Humor: Correlations’s Review of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
This piece was originally published in “The Seventh East Press,” a newspaper dedicated to Latter-day Saints who didn’t take themselves too seriously. It is one of the funniest things I have ever seen...
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Sharing a wonderful blog: Bad Postcards
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACESHIP Actual photograph of a Flying Saucer taken June 16, 1963 near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Learn about people from other planets! Subscribe to: UFO INTERNATIONAL. Six issues...
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The Net is a Myth
In a recent blog post about the feud between Peter Jackson and the Tolkien estate, it was stated, Like many quarrels in Hollywood, the Tolkien/Warner Bros. spat can be narrowed down to an argument...
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Every Day with Rachael: Fraud, Spam, Scam
“Every day” is about how often I get fraud-promoting spam from this outfit. Today’s offering: Subject: Re: (8) From: <k.gerth@ricona.de> To: <redactedt> Hi....
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A thought for the season.
I have many, many friends around the world. Some are people of faith, others are people of reason. All have something of value to contribute to the conversation. With no intention to take from anyone’s...
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A curious and wistful tale.
“For sixty years, the young lady who had been hit by a train near a boarding house in Willoughby was simply known as “The Girl in Blue.” No one knew who she was, where she was going or who to contact...
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The desolation of Tauriel
SPOILER ALERT: This is my review of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.” Don’t read any farther if you haven’t seen Part 2 of the Hobbit trilogy and wish to remain surprised. The executive summary: I...
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May 8, 1945
Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-E Day.
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Block that App
The Goodwoman of the House just posted this on her Facebook page: If only it were just Candy Crush Saga. I think the mad rush for these online stupidities started around the time that Farmville became...
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Playing in the World Game: 2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 190,000 times in...
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New Year’s Traditions Around The World
\ Apparently in Denmark people throw dishes at one another’s doors for New Years. The more your doorstep is littered with worthless shards of pottery, the luckier you will be. Supposedly because you...
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Chaplin in the air
Charlie Chaplin in New York, appearing with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. during WWI. They were promoting war bonds for Third Liberty Loan. Photo taken in April, 1918 in front of the Sub-treasury building....
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Memory Lane: Laser Printers and Other Ephemera
(Cross-posted from Livejournal) Laser printers have come along way. These days you can buy one for almost nothing, and avoiding the manufacturer’s scam by having your cartridges refilled makes using...
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Think of this the next time you gas up.
I was led to this sad video by AmazonWatch via one of my friends, found on his blog “Chevron Shills.” Because Marina Aguinda Lucitante was singing about Texaco, I had to ask him what the relationship...
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Having fun nuking the enemy.
Two of the most sobering media presentations regarding the insanity of nuclear war were the final scene from “War Games” and the 1983 production, “The Day After.” And, as primitive as it was, the old...
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Book Porn
This quote by Ray Bradbury reminds me of the quote from “Good Will Hunting:” ”You dropped a 150 grand on an [] education you could have gotten for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public...
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Surfaces of our Solar System
I have no idea who put together this collage. Mad props to them; the image is beautiful. Click it for a full-size view. From left to right: Venus, Terra, Luna, Mars, and Titan. All but our own world...
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