Unusual Stuff

The San Antonio Spurs are known for being both innovative and very, very boring.  They were the first team to turn heavily to scouting European players and have reaped the benefits of that due to their international fanbase, multinational players, and massive success as one of the steadiest teams in the league.  The Spurs break […]

“Weird” Al Yankovic first got attention back in the 1970’s with homemade recordings of parody songs performed by a boy and his accordion on the Dr. Demento radio show.  Dr. Demento is long gone from the airwaves, but Weird Al seems to be stronger than ever some 30 years after he first took a swing […]

Amazon is looking to take up all your spare time.  If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you’ve had streaming movies and television shows for awhile, with the recent addition of streaming audio files from Amazon’s library.  Now they’re looking to turn their record-breaking Kindle device into a portable library in the truest sense of the word. […]

It’s really a great merger of two of the world’s biggest icons.  One’s a child star who became an adult star who became one of the most acclaimed directors of all time.  The other is a rock and roll band that became a cuddly pop rock act and then became one of the biggest bands […]

It all started with The Decision, the hour-long television special in which LeBron James fled his home state Cleveland Cavaliers to “take his talents to South Beach” and become a member of the star-studded Miami Heat.  Playing alongside fellow supervillains Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, LeBron James won MVPs and NBA titles, and made it […]

Goofy glasses, forehead scar, and quidditch are all hallmarks of one particular person, the creation of author J.K. Rowling is known all around the world and has created legions of superfans in every place where good children’s literature is appreciated.  Rowling’s become a multi-multi millionaire off the back of Harry Potter, and grown-up novels aside, […]

Flavor Flav is a lot of things, particularly a rapper and failed business owner, but one thing he’s not is a good neighbor.  At least not according to the other folks in the Finisterre Homeowners Association, which represents the Las Vegas, Nevada neighborhood in which Flav resides.  There, he’s more likely to be known as the […]

Serena Williams is no stranger to controversy.  After all, when she’s not dominating Grand Slam tournaments, she’s suffering some pretty severe medical problems.  It’s not Serena’s skills that have her in the news, it’s her medical issues.  A disoriented and distressed Serena Williams had to pull out of Wimbledon, suffering from a mysterious virus.  Serena […]

Usually when you hear about biting, it takes place under some strange circumstances.  Man bites dog stories are pretty common, especially during dog attack events, but you also hear about people biting one another in bar fights and other types of situations.  Very rarely do you hear about biting in a sports sense, but when […]

The Washington, D.C. team that competes in the National Football League has a lot of things, from their billionaire owner Daniel Snyder to their award-winning quarterback Robert Griffin III, but the one thing they don’t have anymore is a team name.  For decades, the team competed as the Washington Redskins, but with the rise in […]

It’s the World Cup, and for those of us in the United States, the World Cup timing is perfect.  Games start at noon and end during prime time, so we’re perfectly positioned to watch every game we want (that won’t be the case in 2018 and 2022).  I’ve watched parts of every game so far, […]

There’s weirdness in the air.  A sense of danger, perhaps.  Foreboding thoughts and visions flutter through the airs like the ghosts of nightmares long since dissipated.  In the shadows lurk mysterious figures wearing masks and obscured by hoods.   This is no ordinary Friday, this is a particularly special Friday.  Today is Friday the 13th, […]

So you’ve gone to college and gotten the worthless college degree of your dreams.  Odds are the graduates left college with a significant amount of debt, since college prices keep rising and actual wages are stagnant at best,  and the job market is pretty dreadful even if you’re trying to get employed.  That means a […]

If there’s any country on the face of the earth that loves robots more than Japan, it’s a country I’ve never heard of.  The Japanese are obsessed with robots, and that obsession is not going away any time soon.  Japanese robots sing pop tunes.  Other Japanese robots go to the moon.  If you can design […]

If you’re living in Seattle, Washington, you’re about to get a major pay increase.  Washington state has the highest minimum wage of any state in the union, with the lowest any employee can make being $9.32 an hour.  That’s a pretty good start.  You’re not exactly making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but […]