Unusual Stuff

While it wasn’t a record crowd for last night’s NBA All-Star Game, the lucky fans in attendance actually got to watch a thrilling basketball competition and not just a simple exhibition.  At one point, the East was down a staggering 21 points, and that’s when things got chippy.  Players grabbed rebounds, fouled one another, and […]

Last night’s Oscars was a big night for the silent movie industry.  After being out of vogue since… oh, 1976 or so, the silent film made a comeback in a big way thanks to French film “The Artist.”  “The Artist,” a love letter to old Hollywood that featured no dialogue and a dog giving the […]

  Most people when they masquerade as someone else pick out a person who is famous, or infamous as the case may be. Madison, Wisconsin resident James Summers co-opted a much more bland persona when he perpetrated his unusual crime. Summers, wearing a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase, walked into a Denny’s restaurant […]

The Harry Potter series is an owl-poaching worldwide phenomenon.  One of the genius things author J.K. Rowling did is age the books as the students within them aged.  That allowed the book’s fanbase to grow up as the book’s characters grew up.  Well, Rowling has yet to publish anything not directly related to Potter, but […]

Sacha Baron Cohen is one of the principal performers in Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s beautiful homage to the early days of cinema and a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars.  However, Sacha Baron Cohen may also be persona non-grata at The Oscars if he comes in a persona and not […]

“Nothing makes me prouder than coming home with six Grammys, then coming to the BRITs and winning album of the year.  I’m so proud to be British and to be flying the flag and I’m so proud to be in the room with all of you,” said Adele. Then presenter James Corden stepped in, interrupting […]

Forget about Moneyball, the game-changing baseball philosophy that values getting men on base over defensive metrics, speed, body type, or other traditional tools lusted over by scouts.  The Oakland A’s are going to experience first hand the power of Mannyball.  Manny Ramirez, the long-haired slugger last seen with the Tampa Bay Rays last season before […]

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent and a time in which members of the Catholic Church give up the things they enjoy, such as meat on Friday, to prove their devotion to God.  But that’s tomorrow.  Tonight?  Ahh, tonight is the night to drink it up, party like crazy, and have one […]

Saturday Night Live cleverly made its barbed points about the racism surrounding the coverage of the NBA’s newest star. The meteoric rise in popularity of second-year NBA player Jeremy Lin has created a buzz in his Knicks’ city of New York and around the world. As only the fourth Asian-American to play in the history […]

In a scene straight out of the Old West, the Glenn M. Anderson Federal Building’s seventh floor was the scene of a shootout.  No, a rogue nut didn’t get through security and it wasn’t an act of terrorism.  One federal agent shot another federal agent, then was subsequently killed by a third federal agent in […]

Once you start smoking, it’s very difficult to quit.  A few cigarettes a day can quickly become a dangerous habit, so it’s best to never start.  However, once you do start, quitting aids like nicotine gum and those new electronic cigarettes can help.  Electronic cigarettes are those little cigarette-shaped things with the light in one […]

When you operate a restaurant in which people over 350 pounds eat free, this kind of thing is going to happen.  At the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Triple Bypass Burger nearly lived up to its name one Saturday night.  A 40-year-old man walks into the Heart Attack Grill, orders a Triple […]

Sea lions are adorable, but they can occasionally be trouble.  Just ask Shakira.  While on a nature trip in Cape Town, South Africa, the Colombian singer got a bit too close for comfort with an aggressive sea lion.  As it turns out, the sea lion attacked Shakira, and her brother Tony Ripoll had to come […]

Don’t call it a comeback.  Actually, that’s okay, you CAN call it a comeback.  After a tumultuous 2010 season that saw him being traded twice, getting a coach fired, and generally failing to perform to anyone’s expectations, wide receiver Randy Moss retired a frustrated, unfulfilled man.  Now, after a year of rest and relaxation, Randy […]

There’s a lot that can be said for Simon Cowell.  The ubiquitous reality television judge is everywhere on both sides of the Atlantic:  he’s the former lead judge on American Idol and the current host of Britain’s Got Talent and the US version of The X Factor, in addition to dozens of other television shows.  On the […]