It’s necessary to suffer to be beautiful. Now a man lives to tell what women already know.  It’s laugh-out-loud funny. Christopher Hitchens On the Limits of Self-Improvement that involve wraps, Brazilian waxes and veneers. Part One Part Two

The best beer in the world is brewed by Trappist monks in Westvleteren, Belgium. Despite the phenomenal demand for the “holy grail of beers”, the monks are resisting pressure to increase production. “It would interfere with our job of being a monk. We sell beer to live, and not vice versa.” Trappist Command: Thou Shalt [...]

From Astronomy Picture of the Day

It all started with beer. Chocolate that is.  Chocolate began as a status beer THE chocolate enjoyed around the world today had its origins at least 3100 years ago in Central America not as the sweet treat people now crave but as a celebratory beer-like beverage and status symbol, Anonymous said, “History flows forward in [...]

I know I posted about this before years ago, but a friend just sent it to me again.  I think I laughed just as much.  It’s impossible not to. Texas accident

Annie Liebowitz was commissioned to create new images for the Disney company’s Year of a Million Dreams promotion. Here is Rachel Weisz as Snow White. Scarlett Johanssen as Cinderella Julie Andrews as a fairy godmother See them all in their full glory at the Disney gallery Iain Gray delivers some delicious snark to Rachel Weisz’s [...]

Shamelessly stolen from Scribal Terror

Although he tried awfully hard,  Norman Mailer never succeeded at levitating the Pentagon back in 1968. Yet, this Dutchman succeed at levitating himself before the White House with ease.  How does he do it? I can’t embed so to see Woulter Bijdendijik, the Dutch magician click here.

Kurt Wenner, a former illustrator for NASA, is wowing them in London with his pavement art. He translated the anamorphism – the technique used by classical artists to create the illusion of height – into a new way of painting to give depth to the street surface.