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It’s that time of year again.  Winnipeg’s version of Santacon took place this weekend, and there was much drunken reveling by all.  Shamefully, I don’t believe Krampus was represented, which is a travesty of justice as Krampus is THE drunken reveler of folk tradition and deserves some representation.   Still, it looks like all parties […]

There’s no way I couldn’t pass this particular bit of news along to you today, even if it is a day of rest from the weekly PopFi routine.  There’s a Northern Minnesota Bigfoot Research Team, everyone!   They’re the guys who Tim Kredrowski and sons Peter and Casey called into action when they spotted a […]

Dear kids, It’s becoming a trend.  This year, the big fad among the kids isn’t just the Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters,  it’s apparently reenacting Bob Clark’s classic Christmas tale, A Christmas Story.  I can safely say this because this is the second kid this week who has frozen his tongue to a metal pole.  First […]

Generally, I’m not a fashionable guy.  I wear old teeshirts and slacks or khaki pants to work, and aside from special occasions, I’m not one to dress in any elaborate way.  However, I do like flair.  For example, to work this morning I wore a long coat, scarf, leather gloves, and a Trillby hat as […]

Mankind has always been fascinated with meat-eating plants.  From Audrey II to the famous Venus flytrap, if it’s a plant that eats meat, people are going to take notice.  However, these types of plants might be more common than we realize.  It’s not some beastly science fiction monstrosity either, it’s a plant that grows in […]

Prisoners have a lot of time on their hands.  Apparently in England, prisoners can raise plants.  If you’re a convicted drug dealer, then I guess you grow what you know.  One prisoner in Portland, Dorset, managed to successfully conceal a marijuana plant by decorating it with Christmas ornaments.  And people say smoking pot makes you […]

Marie Ripley says she’s only feeding her unusual bird flock because she doesn’t want them going through trash, but her neighbors from the Montpelier Neighborhood Association in Laurel, Maryland, don’t care.  They want the flock of vultures Mary feeds out of their neighborhood one way or another.  More than 60 of the giant carrion-eating birds […]

For years, people have talked about getting three-dimensional television into homes.  However, aside from DVDs of 3-D movies and the occasional gimmick night of programming, there’s no real headway.  The problem with 3-D is that the process of making the image three dimensional requires a lot of processing power and a special process to convert […]

I believe in a lot of weird things.  Even if I don’t believe in them personally, I’m willing to entertain the possibility that they exist.  For example, from right in my backyard, there’s Bigfoot.  Do I know of anyone who has seen Bigfoot personally?  No, but I’m willing to entertain the idea that living in […]

Workers at a Kmart in Des Moines, Iowa, had a red tin sitting at their customer service counter for four days.  Eventually, someone opened it.  When they did, they discovered a pile of money.  Specifically, someone left $10,380 in cold, hard cash sitting around for nearly a week.  Fortunately for Joe Heithoff, the man who […]

So you’ve worked hard for four (or five) years and have tens of thousands of dollars in debt, but after 16 years in classes you’ve finally graduated with that minty-fresh new bachelor’s degree and it’s time to start your life.  So what’s your new flashy degree worth out there in the real world?  Well, according […]