What can I say? I can't wait for this. RED was one of my favorite movies, and this one looks like a perfect follow-up. Helen Mirren rocks the world. And they've added Anthony Hopkins to the cast! Did you see the first one? Will you see the next? I'll be in the theater on July…
Doesn’t that just make your heart sing? On April 29, Sotheby’s will be auctioning off “The Rouchomovsky Skeleton.” According to the catalog, this fully articulated gold skeleton is c. 1900 and in a velvet-lined coffin chased around on each side with three panels showing the course of life, one end with attributes of the arts,…
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I like Nutella as much as the next person. In fact, I probably like Nutella more than the the next person. Maybe more than the next two people combined. There is nothing in life more perfect than a Nutella and banana crepe, in my mind. But still, I find the fact that thieves in Germany…
A Long Day at the End of the World: A Story of Desecration and Revelation in the Deep South by Brent Hendricks is a memoir by a man whose father's remains were discovered during the scandal at the Tri-State Crematory in 2002 (available March 12, 2013). In February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies…
In 1959, a foreign service memo (you can see the entire thing at Blastr) listed the three regulations for hunting Yeti in Nepal: 1. Royalty of Rs. 5000/- Indian Currency will have to be paid to His Majesty's Government of Nepal for a permit to carry out an expedition in search of 'Yeti'. 2. In…
When I first heard about the Catacombo on The Colbert Report, I was sure it was a joke. I mean, it couldn’t be serious, right? Little did I know… this is about as creepy as it gets, IMHO! Can you imagine what kind of hell your enemies could make of your afterlife by hacking in…
No, it’s not another mash-up, it’s two stories from the same city in England. To whit, Leicester, where under a seemingly innocuous parking lot were found the bones of the hated King Richard III. According to the New York Times, Richard Buckley, the lead archaeologist on a project to identify the bones, told reporters that…
As you may or may not remember, back in November, I had a chance to watch the pilot of The Following with eye candy (and, not incidentally, excellent actors) James Purefoy and Kevin Bacon. I had mixed feelings about the pilot (put on your psychic hat and read my thoughts), but at the time so…
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