Yes, I know there are people in the world who don’t like a good cup of java. I was one of them until I turned 20, needed a second job and worked as a barista for two years starting a lifelong addiction to everything caffeinated and brewed. Well, if I...
I’ve been watching a lot of Parks and Recreation lately. Of course you do not need to know this information at all. But after reading about Charles Lummis (a man with many talents who also had a strong interest in women and drink) I couldn’t help but think of the...
When Oscar Niemeyer (who designed his own museum, see top photo) died at the age of 104 a few years ago he joined a long list of architects who never seem to die. I.M. Pei is still going at it at the age of 98. And let’s not forget 93-year-old...
What better way to celebrate the American holiday of overeating, football games and ridiculous shopping “deals” than with American hero Captain James T. Kirk? Thanks to chimaera-stormhawk I now know he will be born in Riverside, Iowa in the year 2233, when hopefully Americans are no longer eating turkeys with...
In my humble opinion, there are not enough sign collections in the world. Yeah, there are the random pieces found in antique stores as well as at the lovely American Sign Museum in Cincinnati. But we need more places like the Sign Post Forest in Canada. Located in Watson Lake...
This is probably the best example of collecting gone too far. The story goes that this couple named Fred and Myrtle, who lived in a tiny town called Bluff, started collecting paua shells. There were so many that they nailed them to the walls. When Fred and Myrtle died, their...
Here’s to America’s military veterans with one of my postcards from Great Britain. “The Army Isn’t All Work”, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester.
If you’ve seen one antique mall, then you’ve seen them all. So it’s not life-shattering that B&B Antiques in North Myrtle Beach is closing its doors FOREVA…but what will happen to its impressive display of statues? Yes, the store’s known for having lots and lots of life-size, colorful statues in...
Christmas Museum Week Day #3 continues with what the season is all about…buying lots of stuff. Cartoonist Tim Hollis of Dora, Alabama is the go-to guy when it comes to pop culture ephemera. He has a two-story museum addition attached to the back of his house with an entrance through...
Have you heard how all the bees are dying? Well, we’re shit out of luck without them as it’s estimated 80% of the Western diet depends on bee pollination. So most of us will probably starve to death, while the monkeys laugh at us. Eventually, all humans will become extinct....
Considering the great number of “spam” followers and likes I’ve been receiving lately, I thought it would only be appropriate to post something on the SPAM Museum. Located at the Hormel headquarters in Austin, Minnesota, the museum is dedicated to everything mystery meat…from a towering wall of 3,390 SPAM cans...
To anyone living in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay - Happy Día del Amigo! If I had any friends, I’d be down there celebrating it with you; but I don’t, so that’s why I am writing on the internet instead. The origin of Friend’s Day goes back to an Argentine teacher,...
