Unusual Stuff

Last night, the Republicans promised a surprise to help close their convention in Tampa, Florida.  That surprise was the Invisible Barack Obama.  Or, rather, an empty chair, which Clint Eastwood lectured for 10 minutes in a speech right before Mitt Romney came out to accept the Republican nomination for President.  The speech was funny, biting, […]

One of the most difficult jobs has to be officiating professional sports.  First of all, you get all the terrible travel of being an athlete, but not the first-class planes, fancy locker rooms, and millions of dollars.  Then, giant muscle-head men yell at you for doing your job, millionaires critize you in front of millions, […]

The Rocket has a little more gas in the tank, it appears.  The 50-year-old pitcher Roger Clemens made a comeback appearance with the Sugar Land Skeeters and was impressive, throwing 3 1/2 scoreless innings and striking out two in a game against the Bridgeport Bluefish.  Well, that one taste of baseball wasn’t enough, apparently.  Roger […]

It’s a widely known fact that cats are the rock stars of the Internet.  Cat videos are everywhere, and if you can catch your cat doing something funny, like playing Slinky on the stairs, then you too can find yourself at the center of a viral sensation.  However, even if you can’t operate a Blu-ray […]

High fashion is a very weird thing to people like me.  For every high fashion trend, there’s something that mixes the high and the low:  The Friday the 13th hoodie from Marc Ecko and the Snuggie at Fashion Week, for example.  Well, Jil Sander is taking this mixture of high fashion and low culture to […]

If all his travel miles counted, 83-year-old Ron Akana would have racked up 200 million frequent flier miles.  Alas, it is not the case for him; as it turns out, flight attendants don’t get credit for work miles, but they can qualify for the Guinness World Records book.  With his final flight shift, a Denver […]

There have been some very dumb criminals chronicled on the pages of PopFi over the years, and they share a common thread:  pot use.  From the prisoner who used the Bible as rolling papers to the guy with the pot baggie stuck to his forehead, pot and dumb people go hand in hand.  According to […]

Every day above the streets of Los Angeles, news helicopters from every local network take to the air to capture high-speed chases, police pursuits, and more mundane events like traffic jams.  Most of the time, these helicopters simply cover the news, but one helicopter over the streets of Hollywood made the news.  Fox affiliate KTLA’s […]

Seven years ago about this time, New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast area were hunkering down and preparing for a hurricane.  That hurricane was Katrina, which killed 1800 people in the city of New Orleans alone as the storm overwhelmed the city’s levee system.  Now, New Orleans is preparing for another hurricane.  Hurricane Isaac […]

Lydia Ko is an unusual girl.  Born in South Korea, she grew up in New Zealand and took to golf at a young age.  At age 14, she won the New South Wales Open, making her the youngest ever until the slightly younger Brooke Henderson won a Canadian Women’s Tour event in Quebec.  Nonplussed, Lydia […]

Our long national nightmare is over.  The Snooki baby watch can come to an end; as it turns out, the baby is here and is very healthy.  Snooki, whose real name is Nicole Polizzi, was rushed to the Saint Barnabas Medical center in Livingston, New Jersey, in the wee hours of Sunday morning.  By 3 […]

Denali National Park is one of the most bear-infested parks in the national parks service.  Since it was founded as Mount McKinley National Park in 1917, it has also been one of the safest parks for hikers in terms of bear attacks.  Every hiker is made to take a bear awareness training camp and gets […]

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins came into orbit around the Moon.  Before long, the command module Columbia separated from the Lunar Module Eagle, and Aldrin and Armstrong headed for a historic achievement.  Soon, Neil Armstrong was taking mankind’s first steps onto the moon.  This transformed the engineer into a […]

You probably won’t recognize the face of Jerry Nelson, but if you’ve ever had a child or you’ve ever watched any of Jim Henson’s various properties, you’ll instantly recognize the voice.  Of the many famous characters voiced by Nelson over the years, none is more well-known than everyone’s favorite math-loving vampire, Count Von Count, on […]

In 150 events, the Ultimate Fighting Championships have never cancelled a pay-per-view event.  Fighters have dropped out, fighters have been injured, venues have been forced to change… no matter what was supposed to happen, the show was going to go on and Dana White was going to make sure that happened no matter what.  Well, […]