Seconds Before He Proposes To Her, His Girlfriend Gets Struck by Lightning
If this wasn't so sad, it would be funny: A young Tennessee woman was struck and killed by lightning on one of her favorite North Carolina mountain trails only moments before her boyfriend was about to propose to her, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports. Richard Butler, 30, said he and Bethany Lott, 25, both from Knoxville, Tenn., had ignored the rain … Read More
Prop Quiz
Q: What do TV shows Dallas, Remington Steele, Scrubs, Desparate Housewives, as well as the movie No Country For Old Men have in common? A: They've all used the same prop newspaper.
Huge Sinkhole
This isn't photoshopped. This is an actual sinkhole that appeared in Guatemala over the weekend. Click to embiggen. While some sinkholes happen slowly, this one didn't. It was caused by massive underground water torrents created by tropical storm Agatha (which took 115 lives this weekend). The sinkhole swallowed a three story building and a house.
Awwwww…. Betrothed At Birth?
On April 17, 1986, Steve Smith was born (along with his twin brother Scott) at St Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania. Amy Singley was also born that day in the same hospital. And Steve's mother shared a hospital room with Amy's mother. Anyway, Steve and Amy are getting married in a couple of weeks…..
Sox Got The Mojo
Tampa Bay had the winningest record of all the MLB teams this year so far. Earlier this week, they were 32 wins and only 12 losses, a percentage of around .700. And the Sox swept them, three games in a row. In Tampa Bay. So the Boston Boys are doing something right. Still, they're in the toughest division in baseball. … Read More
Rites of Passage
I had my first encounter with actual moonshine last night, distilled (or so I was told) by the late and legendary "Popcorn" Sutton. I'm not the kind to cotton to such things, but there I was, on some abandoned railroad tracks with a steel guitar player and a banjo player and a bunch of others. (The railroad tracks were behind the theater where … Read More