While I lived in the UK I fell in love with the many eccentric old English traditions and some modern ones as well. Bog snorkeling, cheese rolling, village to village ball games, conkers and many more fun things that make England England. The arch enemy of all these events are the sad old blue hairs [...]
A startling new entrant has entered this year’s summer of fear contest. After years of being compared to kittens, wolves have gotten sick of it and downed a jogger. This is only second time wolves have been accused of killing a person in modern history and a bear is suspected in the other attack. Not [...]
Squirrels become more and more brazen in their assaults on our planetary domination. After failing in their direct attacks on us they are now attacking our culture directly. This attack didn’t go as well as planned with one of the attackers poisoning himself.
First is about how the cruise industry really hasn’t changed much in the last hundred years.
Second is about Boy Scouts doing the awesome, clearing a woman’s home of vultures.
Every year the Sharks make a hard run for the Summer Of Fear title, with breathless stories about the latest attacks. Why should 2010 be any different? In an interesting human perseverance note, the first rescuer on the scene had been attacked by a shark himself, but still came on and brought the victim in.
Singer Kate McGarrigle has died, she is well known to folk fans, but less known to the general public. Her Matapedia album, done with her sister Anna, is in my top five folk albums of all time.
Jeremy Clarkson goes to see Mama Mia at the theater. I did this once as well. Once.
Via The Flibbergibbet
Passenger accidentally ejects while flying with an air show team, actually I am surprised it doesn’t happen more often given the wide variety of passengers that fly with these teams. While reading this I was thinking this was the likely result if somehow the Flibbertigibbet was ever conned into flying on one of these. I [...]
David Malki of the brilliant Wondermark comic today has an absolutely essential list of supernatural collective nouns. Now when I run a D&D game I will be able to tell the players they are being attacked by an audacity of gargoyles. Remember, knowing is half the battle.
You can’t beat this headline: Ice-skating bear kills circus director That is just too awesome.