Category: Culture & Related Trivia

  • Restoring my Family’s House

    I don’t have time to work on this today, but it popped into my head and I wanted to check on it before I forgot. My family started to research this a couple of decades ago, but didn’t get too far. It occurred to me that search engines have improved dramatically in that time, and…

  • I Didn’t Know Kudzu Was Edible and so Versatile

    This is my third version of this post and I’m determined to make it the most succinct of the three. Considering the breathtaking scope of the tangents I was embarking upon (or possibly digressing into), that shouldn’t be hard. What I find compelling about this video is that Kudzu is all over the place. It…

  • Eric Swalwell, Busted

    Sortor was on Tim Pool’s show last night talking about this. This is maybe the largest unforced error we’ve seen so far from Swalwell, and he’s had some dillies: Passing gas during a live television appearance. Veiled threats about using nukes against Americans who rebelled against the government. Fabricating evidence in the second Trump impeachment…

  • The Largest Lego City in the World, in the Making

    Lego is one of the things that I keep an interest in, even though I don’t often actually put my hands to bricks. I’m not opposed to doing so, but when I do something, I like to go big, and I don’t currently have the time or money to invest in a large Lego build….

  • Artistic Rendering of the Death Star Trench Run With 80,000 Lego Bricks

    This is a fine piece of work. I like the exterior cut out. Though I suspect that none of the personal would be gathered, eating chicken legs during an all-out attack from the Rebel Alliance. If they were, they probably regretted it in the afterlife. I also noticed at least one Easter Egg (Mickey Mouse)….

  • Squirrel Bones Glow Pink in UV Light

    Who knew?

  • Prayer and Manifesting

    I am not now and never have been a fan of Jim Carrey. His comedic performances are just not my type of humor. He was good in the Truman show, but that’s my only note for him. However, this is a very interesting statement. Especially if it’s how he’s lived his life, as he claims.

  • The Kind of a Song That Makes me Want to Pray Just to Thank God for Making a Universe Full of Beautiful Things

    I have no idea where I heard this song originally, but I was hearing the rhythm to it in my head all day yesterday. I could hear the tones of the female vocals, but I just could not get what she was actually saying. Without something solid like that, I hadn’t a prayer of finding…

  • More Like Welcome to the Well-Maintained Park

    Some cover band covered the entirety of the first Guns and Roses album in the style of 1950s “rock and roll”. It’s…. different. It’s not quite as kitschy version of “Welcome to the Jungle” the band was playing in the bar in the movie “Swingers”, but it’s definitely different. It’s a little less “Welcome to…

  • Trump is Going to Cancel the Minting of Pennies. Awesome!

    I’ve thought we should get rid of pennies for like 30 years, but I never thought anyone would do it. And that was before I knew that it cost almost the cents to mint every penny. This article (and Trump’s statement simply says that the cost is “more than 2 cents” to mint a penny,…