Getting passionately attached to strange things is surprisingly common. People form emotional ties to anything from bands to sports teams, certain makes of car to a brand of beer. One of the things that some folks get gung-ho over, despite its fairly objectively awful nature, is Taco Bell. Even some of this author’s best friends …
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When people talk about things that run in the family, it’s usually about something more or less negative. Maybe it’s stubbornness, baldness, or susceptibility to some disease. Of course, there are also those families where everyone’s ridiculously good-looking or maybe extremely musical. But the Taylor Schlitz family from Texas has everybody beat – it seems …
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Remember the 80s? What a great decade, with neon windbreakers, New Wave music, yuppies, late-stage Cold War… What a time to be alive. And then there was also the Satanic Panic. You know, the mass hysteria about how supposedly everything from roleplaying games to heavy metal music and actual real-world social issues was some kind …
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I think I can safely say the best Keira Knightley was Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Pirate King Kiera. The character arc of Elizabeth Swan is the point of the Pirates trilogy. But it’s not the far-fetched Hollywood-fable as you might think. A life of piracy gave women a chance to live freer …
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Do you think after 2020 that we will hear the words quarantine, mask, or toilet paper, and not shutter for a second? No, me either. But not all quarantine is bad, and this is why. Spending Time This is the thing, most of us have a little extra time these days, and with lots of …
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We’ve posted a lot of animal stories lately. Everybody likes animals, but at least this author feels like a change of pace is needed. So, let’s do something different today. How about the story of Italian flat-earthers whose journey to the edge of the world didn’t exactly go according to plan? The debacle happened back …
Piercings, like tattoos, are unique to each person. But most of these extreme piercings are probably unique to far fewer people. Let me know if you’d agree. Hip Yes, your whole hip. This isn’t a traditional piercing, but rather a dermal piercing. Dermal piercings have a top and an implanted base. It’s no surprise …
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The threat of COVID-19 has shuttered many competitive races this year. Organizers canceled the 124th Boston Marathon after initially postponing to September. Both for hobbyists and people who make their living racing, the lack of races has left them running in circles. Literally. Marathoners and long-distance runners spent quarantine racking up miles in their backyards, …
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Do we love Tom Cruise or hate him? On the one hand, Top Gun, Mission Impossible, and Jack Reacher. But also, Scientology. His exes are like refugees emerging from a cult post-divorce. And his winning smile takes on a twinge of hysteria on talk shows. In a #MeToo world, everyone’s asking if it’s still possible …
The princess of a small principality declares independence because of an invalid pact made by old kings centuries ago. But the current power ruling over her small realm is not willing to let her go, and a usurper is after her throne. Such a plot sounds like something straight out of Game of Thrones or …
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