What is a "complaints choir"? It's a community choir that invites people to sing about their complaints in a choir together with fellow complainers. They're springing up all over the place. Here is the Complaints Choir of Chicago: It's a nice way to channel negative energy into something artistic. BONUS: The cutest picture ever taken
Damn. I Missed The Baby-Jumping Festival.
Every year during the month of June, the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia near Burgos holds its traditional Baby-Jumping Festival as part of its Corpus Christi celebrations. During the act, known as El Colacho, men dressed as the Devil (known as the Colacho) leaps over babies born during the previous twelve months of the year who lie on mattresses … Read More
5 Beekman Street
Back in the 1990's, I worked near this lower Manhatten building for years, assuming it was office space or maybe upscale apartments. Boy, was I wrong. The entire building (built in 1882, and the third building in NYC to have elevators) is empty, and has been abandoned for nearly 70 years. And the interior is cool… Full photo essay … Read More
Starts Cute, Ends Scary
A fawn is lost, but gets befriended by a cat. Mama Deer comes along. Then Mama sees a dog, and all hell breaks loose. Don't mess with mamas.
It’s A Small World After All
Alex and Donna Voutsinas are like many couples; they met at work, fell in love and got engaged. Days before their wedding, the couple was looking at old family photos when Donna came across a picture of herself as a child on vacation at Disney and showed it to her fiancé. But Alex was more interested in the man … Read More
Seconds Before He Proposes To Her, His Girlfriend Gets Struck by Lightning
If this wasn't so sad, it would be funny: A young Tennessee woman was struck and killed by lightning on one of her favorite North Carolina mountain trails only moments before her boyfriend was about to propose to her, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports. Richard Butler, 30, said he and Bethany Lott, 25, both from Knoxville, Tenn., had ignored the rain … Read More
Prop Quiz
Q: What do TV shows Dallas, Remington Steele, Scrubs, Desparate Housewives, as well as the movie No Country For Old Men have in common? A: They've all used the same prop newspaper.
Awwwww…. Betrothed At Birth?
On April 17, 1986, Steve Smith was born (along with his twin brother Scott) at St Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania. Amy Singley was also born that day in the same hospital. And Steve's mother shared a hospital room with Amy's mother. Anyway, Steve and Amy are getting married in a couple of weeks…..