Unusual Stuff

It was about a month ago when two workers at a wastewater treatment plant in Paso Robles, California, spotted an unusual looking animal hanging around.  It wasn’t bothering anyone, but man, was it funny to look at!  It was like some kind of giant water rat.  As it turns out, after consulting with the Department […]

For years, Burt Reynolds was the face of Florida.  He and his then-wife Loni Anderson were huge stars, and Reynolds has been one of the biggest boosters of Florida, even appearing in commercials for the state while highlighting his beautiful estate, dubbed Paradise, in Hobe Sound, Florida.  As it turns out, Burt’s been forced to […]

Hey Tyler Perry, I think I’ve found your next script for that wacky Madea. Instead of preaching to the choir,  pastor Daryl Riley should have been preaching to his music director. Riley chose to fire music director Simone Moore from his position at the New Welcome Baptist Church in St. Elmo, Alabama. Simone Moore, who is […]

When it comes to fans, there are no fans quite as devoted as Elvis fans.  Say what you want to about Beatles fans, Nirvana fans, or whoever else, as Elvis Presley enters year 35 after his untimely death on August 16, 1977, he’s still got legions of fans who make the yearly trek to Graceland […]

He’s not the Six Million Dollar Man nor a Terminator from the future (or the past) with a robotic skeleton, but he is a wounded war veteran with electronic terminal devices, or prosthetics. Dr. Daniel McConnell, who lost his right hand while serving in Afghanistan in 2008, has now lost three of his four prosthetic […]

It’s hard to imagine the situation if you’re currently in the Northern hemisphere, being baked by the summer heat as I am, but on the other side of the world?  Our summer is their winter, and vice-versa.  So while we’re sweating and burning and cursing the cruelty of Helios as we drag our kiddie-pools indoors, […]

Hatred and discrimination in any form is an ugly thing. A group in Germany tried to show some right-wing nationalists that there is a way to end hatred. An organization called  Exit works to let members of hate-mongering groups know there is a way to leave their white supremacist ways behind. To get their message […]

When it comes to obsession, look no further than 19-year-old Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones.  Despite being from Beeston, Notts, in the UK, she loves Korean culture.  When I say loves, I mean LOVES, as Ms. Brooksbank-Jones has undergone some unusual body modification to increase her capacity to love Korea.  Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones had tongue-lengthening surgery to speak better Korean. […]

Like a scene out of a Hollywood thriller, scuba divers cruising through the depths of Lake Tahoe came upon a macabre scene recently. These divers weren’t looking for an underwater hotel, but they did find a grisly surprise. Swimming along at 270 feet below the surface, a group, in what was described as a “needle […]

When it comes to speed, humans are pretty pathetic.  Even the world’s fastest man pales in comparison to a cheetah, a computer, or a standard automobile.  Still, we’re finding ways to improve our speed, though in the case of humans that means building bigger, better, and faster vehicles.  Enter the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, […]

The nation’s largest media market without an NFL franchise may be ending that decades-long football drought.  That’s right, the process of getting LA a football team seems to be moving forward, this time right in downtown.  The LA city council has approved a permit for a 72,000-seat stadium in downtown Los Angeles.  Meanwhile, in the […]

People are just crazy these days.  I mean, you can get attacked for no reason at all, as evidenced by the KFC beatings.  Still, you’d think that someone with a few hit records under his belt would be pretty safe from a butt-kicking, but apparently not.  Sometime last night, a group of people attacked singer/songwriter […]

The Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, has faced a myriad of problems in the short time that it has been open.  Aside from the fact that the Burj Khalifa’s original developer ran out of money and the many construction problems the building has had, there are other issues for folks living in […]

When Diana Nyad was a young woman, she was one of the best swimmers on the planet.  She owned several world records, including swimming from Bimini to Florida (102.5 miles) and swimming around Manhattan in under 8 hours.  She was pretty impressive.  As it turns out, she’s still impressive despite being near retirement age.  The […]

While Rowan Atkinson might be best known to Americans as the rubbery-faced Mr. Bean (or the delightfully sarcastic Blackadder if you watched as much PBS as I did), he’s also known for another thing in his native country of England.  Rowan Atkinson is a speed demon.  He’s a celebrity with a love of fast cars, […]