Twenty-first Century
Fish Surgery
This is not a topic I had given much thought to, before encountering this report from 1955.Then I found more-current info.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 25, 2024 -
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Category: Medicine, Fish, 1950s, Twenty-first Century
French Fry Injector
Why slather your fires with ketchup or cheese or mayo like a peasant, when you could laboriously inject the condiment into each individual fry?Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 19, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Inventions, Patents, Junk Food, Twenty-first Century
Unauthorized Dwellings 33
Read the full story here.NOTE: image is generic.
A man in Washington smelled cigarette smoke in his home and traced it to an upstairs loft. There he found a makeshift bed, a running heater, half-eaten food, and drugs. The following day the suspect returned to the house and was taken into custody, police said.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 17, 2024 -
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Category: Drugs, Stupid Criminals, Unauthorized Dwellings, Twenty-first Century
Resonating Life Which Continues to Stand
The artwork's homepage, which explains:The resonating ovoids continue to stand wherever they are. The ovoids continue to stand even if they are pushed over by waves, blown by the wind, or pushed by people. When an ovoid is pushed over, it rises back up on its own and shines brightly as it produces a tone. The light and tone continues to resonate out to other ovoids and trees nearby.
If a wave of light comes from afar, it signifies the presence of people, waves, or wind there. People gain a heightened sense of awareness of the existence of other people in the same space and the environment.
When it is quiet and the wind is not blowing and the people nearby are not interacting with the ovoids, their lights begin to flicker slowly.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 08, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Asia, Twenty-first Century
Bad Wig Bandits
Bad hairpieces are a definite theme for bank robbers. The first such I find is from the 1950s. The latest is from 2020. When will the next Bad Wig Bandit strike?The newspaper piece below was too long to reproduce in its entirety, but you can read about Frank Sprenz here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 27, 2024 -
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Category: Stupid Criminals, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century, Hair and Hairstyling
Amazons of the Year 2000
THE DAILY SENTINEL of Colorado predicts in 1950 that all the women of the year 2000 will be giants.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 09, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, 1950s, Women, Twenty-first Century
Pope.L, Crawl Artist, RIP
We don't want this recent death to get lost in the end-of-the-year chaos!His obituary.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 03, 2024 -
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Category: Urban Life, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Happy New Year’s Day 2024!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 01, 2024 -
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Category: Holidays, Wild West and US Frontier, Twenty-first Century
Merry Christmas 2023
The model's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 25, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Holidays, Hollywood, Twenty-first Century
PLAY: A Ballet by Alexander Ekman
Your opinions of these clips solicited.The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 13, 2023 -
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Category: Avant Garde, Dance, Twenty-first Century
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