New Year’s Eve: Blackbirds Fall From the Sky Just Before Midnight A few minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve, thousands of blackbirds fell dead from the sky in Arkansas....
Japanese Immigration Restrictions Causing Nursing Problems Japan has always been a famously closed society, almost to the point of legend. This closed nature has traditionally...
Jonathan Winters is Still Alive? Before I write another word, I must say that I consider it hugely rude to comment on older performers...
Momocreatura Jewelry: Death Becomes Cute Overload It’s certainly true that many of us girlier girls – even those of us with guns and motorcycles –...
Good Fun With Knothole-Grable Having enjoyed numerous evenings of relatively undisturbed sleep during the several months I’ve been writing a novel about pus-spewing...
Your Ride For the Zombocalypse When the dead rise to eat your liver, tanks are one thing, but they’re of limited utility if what...
Everest: Climbing Over Corpses to Reach the Summit One of my favorite books of all time is Jon Krakauer’s white-knuckle ride about climbing to the summit of...
Rash of Egyptian Shark Attacks Three snorkelers have been injured, and a German woman killed, in shark attacks off the Egyptian resort town of...
Murder in Celebration: Axe Bludgeoned in a Time of Artificial Innocence For Autumn, the lampposts lining the streets of downtown Celebration, Florida belch out leaf-shaped confetti onto the sidewalks to...
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale – The Santa Flick From Hell Holiday movie fare being typically comprised of the intellectual equivalent of a DIY trepanning kit, most of us would...