Unusual Stuff

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on YouTube, she’s back.  She’s Black and she’s back.  Rebecca Black, that is.  America’s favorite viral video star and the mad genius responsible for the frenzy around “Friday” is about to debut her second song, the aptly-titled “My Moment.”  However, don’t expect an amateurish affair […]

A dozen years to the day after Brandy Chastain booted in the winning penalty kick and stripped off her jersey in an iconic moment to celebrate the United States winning the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the US women’s national soccer team pulled off an improbable rally to keep the squad’s Cup hopes alive yesterday. Even […]

Janet Johnson and JaMichael Brown were told to expect a large baby.  A few weeks ago, they were told their future son might weigh 12 or 13 pounds at birth, due to his mother’s gestational diabetes.  Well, the joke is on the nurses and doctors at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, Texas; Janet Johnson’s […]

The world is moving away from the hour-long dramatic series known as soap operas.  Once a mainstay of daytime television, soaps are crashing out left and right, in spite of several million viewers per episode and legions of devoted fans.  Well, perhaps there may be a way to save the soaps.  ABC has recently canceled […]

Vampires to the left of me. Vampires to the right of me. Vampires right in front of me. You can’t turn on the television or buy a movie ticket without the bloodsuckers showing up. It’s more than just a trend now. There are all types of vamps out there. The dreamy, swoon-inducing, non-threatening teen version […]

And another day passes without a collective bargaining agreement between the NFL owners and the players. So with the lockout continuing, the players, like Cleveland Browns wide receiver Carlton Mitchell above, continue to look for things to do to fill the time they would normally be lifting giant truck tires or going over defensive and […]

The brown marmorated stink bug is a growing problems.  Since the Asian insect came to the United States in the late 1990’s, the bugs have spread like wildfire.  Now, those bugs are hitting us where it hurts:  the booze!  Asian brown marmorated stink bugs are attacking wineries across the US.  All it takes are 10 […]

Happy Fourth everyone! It’s a time to celebrate the birth of our nation. Nothing says Happy Fourth like fireworks and attending a baseball game whether it’s at the major or minor league level. Fireworks are an even bigger draw for fans than bringing together baseball and Star Wars Fireworks combined with of love of athletic […]

Stephen Colbert has undergone a meteoric rise in the world of television, going from little-known comedian to host of his own nightly television news program, The Colbert Report on Comedy Central.  Since then, Colbert’s fake conservative commentator shtick has struck a cord with his audience, so much so that Colbert has stopped being a TV host and […]

Well, that was fun while it lasted.  Shortly after Kyrie Irving became the top pick in the NBA draft and the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA title, the National Basketball Association has decided to throw a huge bucket of water on what was the most successful NBA season since the 1998-99 strike-shortened season by taking […]

Hey, stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Tylenol Extra Strength bottles are being recalled due to contamination from the fungicide 2,4,6-tribromoanisole (TBA).  No, I’m not repeating a story from 2009, Johnson&Johnson is recalling a February 2009 run of  Tylenol Extra Strength 250-count bottles, bearing the UPC code 300450444271.  The bottles are from lot ABA619. […]

In the old days, World of Warcraft used to hook people by giving them a free 14-day trial.  If you had a friend who played, maybe you’d get a free month.  Either way, it was just long enough to hook people and make WoW a full-fledged cultural phenomenon.   But that wasn’t enough for the […]

It’s a tense scene.  Wildfires have surrounded the Los Alamos National Lab, threatening America’s nuclear weapons laboratory.  The nearby town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, has seen 12,000 residents evacuated by firefighting crews after the Las Conchas wildfire moved from the Santa Fe National Forest towards the Los Alamos nuclear facility, rendering Los Alamos a […]

Lauren Cohan as Bela Talbot on “Supernatural”   Most people wouldn’t recognize the name Lauren Cohan, but fans of CW’s “Supernatural” will certainly recognize her face. Cohan is probably best known for her role as the self-serving thief Bela Talbot, who frequently annoyed the Winchester brothers in her quest for acquiring all things antique and […]

It’s every basketball player’s dream.  You travel to New York City and you hear David Stern call your name as the number one pick of the NBA draft.  Only one person can do this every year; this year’s top NBA Draft pick was Duke point guard and do-it-all hoopster Kyrie Irving, who played only 11 […]