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The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across LondonThe Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
- 7 Jun 20, 9:00am -
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror FilmArtist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
- 1 Jun 20, 9:00am -
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains RunningThe Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
- 31 May 20, 9:00am -
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of DiscoverySpace Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
- 30 May 20, 9:00am -
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice MeltHigh in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
- 26 May 20, 9:00am -
Space Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter's StormsSpace Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter's Storms
Space Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter's Storms
Space Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter's Storms
- 23 May 20, 9:00am -

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Geekologie

  • A longboarder's closest calls over 10 years of filming
    Lonboarder Josh Neuman put together this compilation of his ten closest calls while filming his longboarding over ten years. What he says about his number one closest call:What Happened: While on a production shoot we had one of the crew members…
    - 25 Aug 21, 2:57am -
  • Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour
    This is incredible (chilling?) video of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour.Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team at Boston Dynamics to experiment with new behaviors. In this video our humanoid robots demonstrate their whole-bo…
    - 19 Aug 21, 5:27am -
  • Absolutely stunning and hypnotic stop-motion animation using matches
    This is an incredibly well done and hypnotic stop-motion animation by Tomohiro Okazaki featuring every conceivable play on matches. And as if the creativity wasn't impressive enough on its own, it plays back at 60fps. The stop-motion video I made f…
    - 11 Aug 21, 2:22am -
  • This is a snownado
    Apparently snownados exist and if you guessed that they're dust devils but with snow you'd be correct. They're not nearly as interesting as Sharknados or firenados, but those are impossibly high bars for a 'nado. Keep going for another video of…
    - 10 Aug 21, 3:41am -
  • Surreal phone booth videos
    This is a series of surreal phone booth videos by TikToker solopsist. You may be wondering what a "surreal phone booth video" even is and I couldn't explain it to you if I tried, so I'll just let you experience them as I did. @solopsist There are…
    - 5 Aug 21, 2:59am -

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Geeks of Doom

  • Book Review: How To Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
    How to Sell a Haunted HouseHardcover | Kindle Edition | AudiobookBy Grady HendrixPublisher: BerkleyRelease Date: January 17, 2023If this book had a title like Coming Home Again, I'd probably be starting this review by saying something…
    - 23 Jan 23, 6:35pm -
  • Seandps’s Top 10 Movies of 2022
    Well folks, we did it. One more year has passed and things continue to move towards getting back to normal. Although the meaning of normal is still up for debate. For me, normal is a year full of movies that I got to enjoy in the theaters, and mo…
    - 17 Jan 23, 1:00pm -
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2022: Music
    Jim Morrison once waxed on wax about how “the future is uncertain and the end is always near.” Well if that’s the true-be-all-end-all-whatsit statement folks, then it’s a good thing that music is always near to help with the confusion. No…
    - 26 Nov 22, 8:40pm -
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2022: Dungeons & Dragons
    Welcome, readers! Once again, I am honored to be able to show off a few of the amazing Dungeons & Dragons releases that were made available this year. I know I may have omitted a few items, but these are the big ones that I think would make for a…
    - 26 Nov 22, 5:09pm -
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2022: Books, eBooks, and AudioBooks
    Another holiday season is almost upon, which means another great reason to buy and gift all things books! And there are some truly beautiful offerings from the publishing world this year, such some new illustrated editions of J.R.R. Tolkien works…
    - 17 Nov 22, 12:00pm -

Neatorama

  • newNewly-Discovered Swedish Petroglyphs Weren't Easy to Make
    The coastal region of Sweden known as Bohuslän is known for its ancient petroglyphs. In early May, a series of 40 petroglyphs that hadn't been seen in hundreds of years was discovered on a rock face in Bohuslän. A team of archaeologists had to stan…
    - 14 hours ago 31 May 23, 9:01pm -
  • newCar Ramps Up Onto Flatbed Truck and Launches Into Air
    You've seen this stunt performed in movies before, and probably on The Dukes of Hazzard several times. When it happens in real life, the outcome can be much worse. The above is a police bodycam footage from an incident near Valdosta, Georgia. Lowndes…
    - 14 hours ago 31 May 23, 8:36pm -
  • newThat Time the US Congress Considered Hippo Ranching
    Louisiana Representative Robert F. Broussard introduced a bill to the US House of Representative in 1910 that would promote the importation and domestication of hippopotamuses for commercial purposes. Broussard thought he had a great idea for killing…
    - 16 hours ago 31 May 23, 6:33pm -
  • newReactionary Parenting Offers a Better Future for Our Children
    pic.twitter.com/md9trSGpLe— summer 🖕 (@salesforcechild) May 29, 2023Summer Emerald, who goes by the online pseudonym of salesforcechild, is preparing to be a mother to children who are mentally and emotionally healthy and prepared for the challe…
    - 24 hours ago 31 May 23, 10:37am -
  • Official Drains Reservoir To Find His Phone
    Well, we have to admire his dedication to looking for his phone. Rajesh Vishwas, a food inspector with the Chhattisgarh state government in India, was taking a selfie when he dropped his phone. The government official was in the Parallkot reservoir,…
    - 1 day ago 31 May 23, 9:20am -
  • Would You Draw Your Eyeliner With This Highlighter From Stabilo?
    Sign me up. Embrace the stress and hardships brought on by finals week in school with themed makeup. Even if you’re too tired to do other fun things except just eat, bathe, and study (also take tests in between), there’s no harm in making sure yo…
    - 1 day ago 31 May 23, 9:16am -
  • Have You Had Any Misles?
    A "misle" is an unofficial term for a word that you mispronounce because you've only seen it in text. The term came from the story Eric Wolfe posted in 1991 about the way he used to pronounce the word "misled." Instead of mis-led, he saw it as my-zul…
    - 2 days ago 30 May 23, 7:55pm -
  • Artificial Intelligence Knows Nothing of Dogs and Cats
    Warning: this video may be nightmare-inducing. Or you might just find it hilarious. We know artificial intelligence algorithms are pretty good for writing an essay, or at least ChatGPT is, Midjourney can construct an illustration for you, and some re…
    - 2 days ago 30 May 23, 7:52pm -
  • Woman Wins Cheese Rolling Competition Despite Being Knocked Unconscious
    🧀 Canadian 🇨🇦 Delaney Irving won’t remember much of winning the Woman’s race at #cheeserolling.After being knocked out on her way down, she was unconscious for a period of time but told us it was all worth it. ⚠️ WARNING: Contains gr…
    - 2 days ago 30 May 23, 10:46am -
  • Should You Buy Food Storage Containers?
    These containers do help us when it’s time to store our leftovers in the refrigerator, or when we want to organize our produce and other ingredients in the fridge. Apparently, there is no need to buy them, according to celebrity chef and founder of…
    - 2 days ago 30 May 23, 7:27am -
  • One Of The Oldest Buildings In The World
    Çatalhöyük is known as one of the oldest buildings in the world. Located in modern-day Turkey, it is dated to be around 9,400 years old, the location suggests that human activity started around 7,400 BCE. The edifice was maintained for over 2,000…
    - 2 days ago 30 May 23, 7:23am -
  • What Happens When You Pour Hydrogen Peroxide Into Your Toilet?
    It cleans the toilet. Hydrogen peroxide is a good alternative for a toilet bowl cleaner, especially if you need one for an emergency. What happens is that the chemical can effortlessly remove dirt, grime, bacteria, and the gross stuff that's really…
    - 2 days ago 30 May 23, 7:22am -
  • Spectre: the Vampire Einstein Monotile
    A couple of months ago, we touched on the subject of aperiodic monotiling. A shape called "the hat" was a breakthrough in the quest to find a single tile shape that would produce a non-repeating pattern. This is often called an einstein, because the…
    - 2 days ago 30 May 23, 5:17am -
  • A Scale Model of Time Itself
    When we think of time, we think of our daily schedules or maybe a lifetime. But the human mind has a hard time grasping the history of the universe, and the relative blink of an eye that humanity has existed. The 300,000 or so years that homo sapiens…
    - 3 days ago 29 May 23, 9:15pm -
  • Odd Prize Inside a Cheerios Box
    Redditor ceebasst poured out a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast. Or maybe it was a late-night snack. Either way, this came out with the cereal. No explanation on the box. You can see in the second picture at the reddit post that when you push the butto…
    - 3 days ago 29 May 23, 11:53am -

GeekDad

  • Review – DC Pride 2023 #1: Ten Tales of Celebration
    DC celebrates Pride month with an all-star anthology featuring elite creators and characters. Click through to read all of "Review – DC Pride 2023 #1: Ten Tales of Celebration" at GeekDad.If you value content from GeekDad, please support us via Pa…
    - 2 days ago 30 May 23, 5:00am -
  • Raving Review: Dark Matter Sentry Microphone by Monoprice
    Monoprice is out to topple the Blue Yeti, and they pretty much nailed it. Read more to learn the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Monoprice Dark Matter Sentinel microphone.Click through to read all of "Raving Review: Dark Matter Sentry Microphone…
    - 3 days ago 29 May 23, 6:00am -
  • Beat the Heat This Summer with the COOLiFY 2S
    The TORRAS COOLiFY 2S is a wearable neck air conditioner. This U-shaped device fits around your nect and uses a combination of new cooling technology and fans to cool down your body even on hot days.Click through to read all of "Beat the Heat This S…
    - 3 days ago 29 May 23, 5:00am -
  • Portable DAC/AMPs — The iFi Go Link and Go Bar Are Super Portable Gear for Making Your Headphones Sing
    With Fathers' Day just around the corner, consider gifting dad an upgrade to his audio experience with these excellent portable DAC/Amp combos from iFi.Click through to read all of "Portable DAC/AMPs — The iFi Go Link and Go Bar Are Super Portable…
    - 5 days ago 27 May 23, 9:00am -
  • Kids Books About Animals: ‘Ten Cats’ and Tornero the Sloth Ambassador
    These two animal books are aimed at young children.Click through to read all of "Kids Books About Animals: ‘Ten Cats’ and Tornero the Sloth Ambassador" at GeekDad.If you value content from GeekDad, please support us via Patreon or use this link…
    - 5 days ago 27 May 23, 5:00am -
  • Wind Whispers With News From PaizoCon Online 2023
    Check out this exciting news about 'Pathfinder' and 'Starfinder' from PaizoCon Online 2023.Click through to read all of "Wind Whispers With News From PaizoCon Online 2023" at GeekDad.If you value content from GeekDad, please support us via Patreon o…
    - 6 days ago 26 May 23, 2:00pm -
  • ‘The Time Nature Keeps’ — A Book Review
    'The Time Nature Keeps' reveals the inner time mechanisms of the world around us, and is engrossing from start to finish. Click through to read all of "‘The Time Nature Keeps’ — A Book Review" at GeekDad.If you value content from GeekDad, plea…
    - 6 days ago 26 May 23, 7:00am -
  • Game or Work in Comfort With the E-WIN Flash XL Size Series Ergonomic Computer Gaming Office Chair
    The E-WIN Flash XL Size Series Ergonomic Computer Gaming Chair is great for larger people for both gaming as well as the office and provides great lumbar and neck support. Click through to read all of "Game or Work in Comfort With the E-WIN Flash XL…
    - 6 days ago 26 May 23, 6:00am -
  • Seat Yourself in Style With the Verve Chair From Branch
    The Verve Chair is a sturdy, supportive, and stylish chair that will serve you well in work or in play.Click through to read all of "Seat Yourself in Style With the Verve Chair From Branch" at GeekDad.If you value content from GeekDad, please suppor…
    - 6 days ago 26 May 23, 5:00am -
  • Review: ′Swimmers,’ A Picture Book for All Ages
    Tapioca Stories is a new publisher with a mission, sharing Latino stories. Click through to read all of "Review: ′Swimmers,’ A Picture Book for All Ages" at GeekDad.If you value content from GeekDad, please support us via Patreon or use this lin…
    - 7 days ago 25 May 23, 9:30am -
  • Quest From Your Couch at PaizoCon Online 2023 This May 26-29
    A fully-online convention for fans of Starfinder and Pathfinder!Click through to read all of "Quest From Your Couch at PaizoCon Online 2023 This May 26-29" at GeekDad.If you value content from GeekDad, please support us via Patreon or use this link…
    - 7 days ago 25 May 23, 8:30am -
  • Build a Dream Desk with Flexispot
    Need a new desk? Here's everything you need to know about Flexispot's adjustable height desks.Click through to read all of "Build a Dream Desk with Flexispot" at GeekDad.If you value content from GeekDad, please support us via Patreon or use this li…
    - 7 days ago 25 May 23, 7:30am -
  • Make Virtual Meetings Easier With The CZUR Starry Hub
    The Starry Hub is a smart 4K wireless projector that also features a built in 1080 HD webcam which makes it great for virtual meetings. It can project a 150 inch image with clear quality even in a lit room. Click through to read all of "Make Virtua…
    - 7 days ago 25 May 23, 6:30am -

Longform

  • Longform Podcast #535: Amy Chozick
    Amy Chozick is an author, journalist, executive producer, and showrunner. Her latest feature for The New York Times is ”Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth.”“The subject thought it was a hit job. Twitter thought it was a puff piece…
    - 8 days ago 24 May 23, 1:24pm -
  • Longform Podcast #533: Hua Hsu
    Hua Hsu is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His book Stay True won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for memoir.“I've worked as a journalist … for quite a while. … But this [book] was the thing that was always in the back of my mind. Like, this was t…
    - 22 days ago 10 May 23, 9:42am -
  • Longform Podcast #532: Kevin Kelly
    Kevin Kelly is one of the founding editors of Wired, where his current title is Senior Maverick. His new book is Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I'd Known Earlier.“I never wrote a book because I wanted to do a good deed. I just wanted to tell…
    - 29 days ago 3 May 23, 10:14am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Terrence McCoy
    Terrence McCoy is The Washington Post's Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief. He won the George Polk award for his series "The Amazon, Undone" on the illegal and often violent exploitation of the rainforest.“When I first got to Brazil, the Amazon was an a…
    - 34 days ago 28 Apr 23, 8:47am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Lynsey Addario
    Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist for The New York Times and National Geographic. She won the George Polk award for her photograph of the bodies of a woman and her two children alongside a friend who lay dying moments after a mortar struck them as…
    - 35 days ago 27 Apr 23, 9:40am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Tracy Wang and Nick Baker
    Tracy Wang and Nick Baker of CoinDesk, along with their colleague Ian Allison, won the George Polk award for reporting that led to the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and his cryptocurrency exchange FTX.“Crypto had been kind of a backwater of reporting…
    - 36 days ago 26 Apr 23, 9:22am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Lori Hinnant
    Lori Hinnant is a reporter for the Associated Press. Along with videojournalist Mstyslav Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, and video producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, she won the George Polk Award for war reporting for covering the siege of Mariup…
    - 37 days ago 25 Apr 23, 7:49am -
  • Polk Award Winners: Theo Baker
    Theo Baker is the investigations editor at The Stanford Daily. The first college student ever to win a George Polk Award, Baker received a special recognition for uncovering allegations that pioneering research co-authored by Stanford President Marc…
    - 38 days ago 24 Apr 23, 10:40am -
  • Longform Podcast #531: David Grann
    David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.“I became very haunted by the stories that [nations] don't tell. Nations and empires preserve their powers not only by the stories…
    - 43 days ago 19 Apr 23, 11:00am -
  • Longform Podcast #530: Vann R. Newkirk II
    Vann Newkirk II is a senior editor at The Atlantic and the host of Floodlines: The Story of an Unnatural Disaster. His new podcast is Holy Week: The Story of a Revolution Undone.“I’m often toggling between environmental justice, between the his…
    - 50 days ago 12 Apr 23, 3:53am -
  • Longform Podcast #528: Roxanna Asgarian
    Roxanna Asgarian is the law and courts reporter for the Texas Tribune. Her new book is We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America.“Every once in a while, I'll have someone just freak out at me. And it keeps you ho…
    - 64 days ago 29 Mar 23, 9:40am -
  • Longform Podcast #527: Mary Childs
    Mary Childs is a co-host of the podcast Planet Money and the author of The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All.“I love aberrations. I love when things go wrong. You get a high stress situation, you get all of th…
    - 71 days ago 22 Mar 23, 11:57am -
  • Longform Podcast #526: Laurel Braitman
    Laurel Braitman is a science writer, the author of Animal Madness: Inside Their Minds, and the founder of Writing Medicine. Her new book is What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love.“My life was becoming unmanageable, in a way…
    - 78 days ago 15 Mar 23, 12:29pm -
  • Longform Podcast #525: Sam Fragoso
    Sam Fragoso is a writer, filmmaker, and the host of the podcast Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso.“We have an hour together. We may not have another. We're here for a brief moment and then, you know, we die. And I want this thing to be as good as it can…
    - 85 days ago 8 Mar 23, 11:18am -
  • Longform Podcast #524: Eric Lach
    Eric Lach is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he covers New York. His latest article is “The Mayor and the Con Man.”“I think about my own trajectory, my little generation of journalists—it was easier to get jobs reporting on national…
    - 92 days ago 1 Mar 23, 1:18pm -
  • Longform Podcast #523: Willa Paskin
    Willa Paskin, a former TV critic, is the host of the podcast Decoder Ring.“I want it to feel like a trap door. When you push on a trap door, there’s like a little spring. If it’s the right idea, you start to look into it, and you’re like, O…
    - 99 days ago 22 Feb 23, 10:22am -
  • Longform Podcast #522: Abraham Josephine Riesman
    Abraham Josephine Riesman is a journalist who writes often for New York and is the author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. Her second book, Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, will be published in March.“You’re…
    - 15 Feb 23, 12:27pm -
  • Longform Podcast #521: Jonah Weiner
    Jonah Weiner is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and co-author of the newsletter Blackbird Spyplane.“It's a version of myself. It's a hyperbolic version of myself. And I think it keeps it fun for me. It doesn't feel like a jo…
    - 8 Feb 23, 2:06pm -
  • Longform Podcast #520: Delia Cai
    Delia Cai is the senior vanities correspondent for Vanity Fair and publishes the media newsletter Deez Links. Her debut novel Central Places is out this week. “This was in like, 2011, where I think actual journalists were still trying to figure o…
    - 1 Feb 23, 11:41am -
  • Longform Podcast #519: Peggy Orenstein
    Peggy Orenstein is a journalist and author. Her latest book is Unraveling.“The challenge is… to not want to say, I need to know what the book is about. I need to have my chapters. I need to know what exactly I'm looking for. Because it's really…
    - 25 Jan 23, 12:35pm -

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  • new43 years ago, Gerald Ford slipped and handed SNL pure comedy gold
    On a rainy June 1st, 1975, after landing in Salzburg, Austria, President Gerald Ford slipped while walking down the boarding stairs. Ford blamed the slip on an old knee injury acting up. Still, the caught-on-camera incident became a massive stumbling…
    - 5 mins ago 1 Jun 23, 10:28am -
  • newGet yourself to Melbourne, Australia for the Blobfish Beer Festival!
    I wish I were in one of my favorite cities—Melbourne, Australia—so I could attend the Blobfish Beer Festival at the historic Meat Market, a venue that's worth a visit with or without beer. The Meat Market website describes the space:Meat M…
    - 43 mins ago 1 Jun 23, 9:50am -
  • newRussian spy beluga trying to come in from the cold
    A beluga whale was discovered off the coast of Northern Norway in April 2019 wearing a harness that appeared to be fitted for potential spy gear, and bore Russian markings. He is believed to be part of a Russian program using the whales for spying p…
    - 51 mins ago 1 Jun 23, 9:42am -
  • newTeens charged with killing and eating swan
    Faye, a swan living on the village pond in Manlius, New York, was killed and eaten by teenagers there, reports the Associated Press. Her four cygnets were recovered and are safe; the teens were charged with grand larceny and criminal mischief. — Re…
    - 57 mins ago 1 Jun 23, 9:36am -
  • newTwitter valued at one-third what Musk paid for it last year
    After months of chaos, Twitter is settling into its new role as Elon Musk's proprietary media, used (if not always useful) to promote the right-wing memes and personalities he's into and, well, not much else. With use reportedly in decline and revenu…
    - 2 hours ago 1 Jun 23, 9:03am -

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Awkward Geeks

  • Nerd Rant: The “What if” Arguments
    Any time Hollywood remakes something, and changes a characters skin color to anything not white, white people have complete breakdowns over it. I’ve seen so much outrage recently between The Rings of Power, and now The Little Mermaid, it’s just d…
    - 13 Sep 22, 2:41pm -
  • Watching: DC Animated Shows
    I’ve been on a kick lately, a nostalgia superhero kick. I grew up watching superhero cartoons, and never really stopped. It really hit me though that most of the animated shows I watched were DC. Of course I loved some Marvel stuff to, like X-Men,…
    - 10 Aug 22, 5:35am -
  • That Time At The Library
    Once upon a time, 13 year old me, and my two best friends (one bold & one goofy) were at a public library. We were doing some research for a school project we had to work on, and pretty much minding our own business. Aside from whispering, when we ne…
    - 26 Jun 22, 1:40pm -
  • My Favorite Underrated Movies
    We all have those movies we love, but it feels like no one else likes them. These are a few of mine. One of the great things about the internet is finding out that I was not alone in liking these movies. Josie and the Pussycats (2001) Such cheesy goo…
    - 25 Apr 22, 7:03pm -
  • The Guild
    On July 27th 2007, back when I obsessively payed World of Warcraft, Felicia Day dropped The Guild on YouTube. I’m having trouble processing that this year will mark 15 years since then. It just doesn’t seem that long ago to me, yet, somehow, it d…
    - 28 Feb 22, 12:38pm -
  • “Forgotten” Early 2000s Sci-Fi Shows
    If it wasn’t for the fact that people uploaded things on YouTube, I would have thought I was the only one who remembered some of these shows. I consider them “forgotten” simply because of the fact I never hear any one talk about them, or know w…
    - 19 Jan 22, 12:13pm -
  • The Villains Lair
    I’m not sure how this went unnoticed by me for so long, but recently YouTube decided to make a suggestion to me, and I don’t know why they waited so long. But, now I have discovered The Villain’s Lair. Here are the first two episodes from the p…
    - 11 Jan 22, 8:38am -
  • Encanto: Mirabel’s Gift
    When we get to the end of Encanto some people felt it wasn’t clear if Mirabel had a gift, or what it was. But, I think I might be on to something with my theory. Let’s start at the beginning, not of the movie, but where the gifts came from. Abuel…
    - 5 Jan 22, 9:21pm -
  • If My Life Were A Disney Soundtrack
    Sometimes I like to put together playlists on Spotifty. Recently I wondered, if my life had a soundtrack, what would it be? Then I went completely blank.  After thinking on it, I figured the best place for me to start would be with songs from Disne…
    - 2 Jan 22, 10:34am -
  • Nerd Nostalgia: BK Commercials
    I’m not sure how I ended up down this rabbit hole, but here we are. This post is an unintentional ad for Burger King, because they saw talent before they were famous. Little “Buffy” at Burger King Before she worked at Double Meat Palace, Buffy…
    - 27 Dec 21, 12:25pm -

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