Sorry for the limited amount of posts lately. After three years I’m about ready to give up on this tumblog. Just not feeling it lately. But before I take my sabbatical, we have to celebrate the tradition of creepy and weird and scary things as we usually do in the...
Although today can be a great day full of memories for those who had loving fathers, it is also a triggering day for some people. Family-focused holidays can be depressing, anxiety-filled, and just plain awful. Let’s not forget that in the U.S. 1 out of 3 children live in biological...
I have a confession to make - I have never eaten at White Castle. I know, I know. Possibly the worst thing someone can do while living in America. Maybe the government should kick me out or something. Anyway, I bet you didn’t know the restaurant has a Cravers Hall...
I bring you an old post about another medical collection. Yep, right from the horse’s mouth. Now that was a bad joke if I’ve ever seen one. What we have here is 29 horses’ teeth, assembled by Louis Auzoux (1797-1880), a French doctor, who went on to make papier-mâché models...
HAPPY 4-20! I dedicate this post to my high school stoner pals who used to smoke up in Shabbona Park and various other places on Chicago’s NW Side. Something tells me they’re still hanging out there. Or at least their spawn are. Crazy to think my best friend during my...
1 Museum of Broken Relationships 2 Museum of Enduring Beauty 3 Harvard University’s Glass Flowers Collection 4 South Korea’s Penis Park 5 China’s Only Museum of Sex 6 Oasis Bordello Museum 7 Amsterdam’s Sex Museum 8 Sex Machines Museum 9 Syphilis Museum 10 National Knife Museum
Once a clothing boutique, now a bank, there’s a building in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood that used to house my family’s sausage store. My grandfather and his brother still made their own sausage long after the place closed. It was open for about 40 or 50 years, now part of...
No one is perfect, and that includes both you and me, so after dealing with some mentally ill people this week I think it is best to find a museum that is the opposite of crazy, let’s say even boring. And one of the most boring things I can think...
My mind always focuses on what ifs. One of my biggest regrets whilst living in England was not going to the Photography Museum (now known as the National Media Museum). I had friends who lived nearby. And even though we went through Bradford a few times, I never thought to...
So I took the wrong medication last night, slept 13 hours and now I feel overtired with aching muscles and heavy eyelids. While trying to wake up this morning, I found myself watching Back to the Future Part II, which features the Biff Tannen Museum. This is from the 1985...
If you dismiss the thimble as just one of the game tokens in Monopoly, think again. Even though most thimble makers have now gone out of business, this sewing tool is important enough to get its own museum. The Fingerhut Museum in Creglingen, Germany displays thimbles and other sewing tools...
I had to go out and see a movie and eat Chinese food with my family, but don’t think I forgot about Christmas Museum Week. I mean, come on, I know what’s important in life. Right about now I know some of you are probably watching 24 hours of A...
