Thanksgiving is full of baked goods. Well, it should be. But I guess it’s okay to buy some processed sweet that is on sale at Costco. Whatever, man. It’s your stomach. For some reason, people think not enough calories are consumed during the big meal, so dessert is always included...
I’d like to say a fond farewell to the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas. I hardly knew ya. It will close in less than a month (October 17th to be exact). Even though I did not visit it when I went to Vegas last year, I came to the conclusion...
Happy Friday the 13th! It just so happens that today is the 30th anniversary of the shooting of Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. Hit by four bullets fired from a 9mm pistol some 15 feet away, the Pope was struck twice in the stomach, once in the...
Tumblr has Kim Jong-il looking at things and Kim Jong-un looking at things but what it really needs is a random North Korea museum. Yeah, they do have those things over there, maybe sometime in the future Kim Jong-un will look at one. If you want to get a different...
Ever been locked out of your house? Or maybe your car? As you waited for someone to come and rescue you, I bet you wondered if there was a museum dedicated to locks? Well, there is…because a museum exists for just about anything that crosses one’s mind (bananas, kazoos, even...
Due to the small number of cadavers available for anatomical study in British medical schools during the early 19th century, many criminals committed grave-robbing, and even murder, to make some money. One such infamous case was the serial killer duo of Burke and Hare. Irish immigrants who lived in Edinburgh,...
Sep 15 marks the anniversary of the hate crime known as the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. A monument commemorates the bombing of the church in Birmingham, Alabama, while statues across the street honor the victims of the tragedy. The historic African-American church took a central role in the Civil...
I went to a baby shower yesterday. I think I’d rather have gone to a museum. Seen at the History of Medicine Museum, Paris.
There is an American girl I know who thinks she’s living in a Jane Austen novel. She might’ve been a wee bit disappointed to find out England is full of chavs and neds and not gentlemen dressed like Mr. Darcy, but that didn’t stop her delusions. Anyway, she would probably...
In honor of 10-10-10 (the date people won’t stop talking about), I started to think about the concept of time, which inevitably led me to look up the American Clock & Watch Museum in Bristol, Connecticut. Does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care? In Bristol they...
