Tag Archives: Burst of Weirdness

Oddities and Awesome abound! But no oddities today…just straight-up awesome. :: Here’s one of those stories I would never have thought to even consider as even being a story: a profile of Black Jack, the riderless horse used in many … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Ten Really Terrific Reading Nooks. Not a fan of a few of these (the moon-shaped bed seems odd to me, and I don’t know about the one hanging over water), but most seem to me … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound…. :: Director Steven Soderbergh on On Her Majesty’s Secret Service For me there’s no question that cinematically ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE is the best Bond film and the only one worth watching repeatedly for reasons … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: I think that you can not name a single human pursuit that does not have, somewhere on this planet, a museum devoted to it. Case in point: A museum to French fries. :: A bit … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: I’m not sure if this is weird or awesome: Beard yeast might sound icky at first, but it’s really grown on one Oregon brewmaster. Rogue Ales, a brewery and pub based in Newport, Ore., is … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: If it seems like virtually every 30-40-something woman you know is named “Jennifer”, well, here’s why. This also shows that in about ten to fifteen years, the world will be run by Emily’s, Emma’s, and … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound. So does jaw-dropping awfulness, like this. Yeah…sorry, folks, but it is, by a wide margin, the single weirdest thing I saw online all week. (In all seriousness, the “group” Ylvis is actually a comedy duo, and … Continue reading →

Links fixed. Sorry folks, I don’t know what happened there. Oddities and Awesome abound! :: We’ve made a weekly ritual in these parts of going to a local artisanal cupcake joint that launched a couple of years ago. They’re very … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: You could do a lot worse, when wasting time on YouTube, than watching old clips from Whose Line Is It Anyway. The British version is preferred, but the American version (not the current one, the … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: I’ve seen a bunch of these before, but even so, they remain ever-fascinating: 31 haunting images of abandoned places. The hotel in Colombia is particularly haunting. :: A couple of guys decide to go into … Continue reading →