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Feeling Lean? More SPAM, Please!

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

An article in the New York Times singled out SPAM — America’s iconic mystery meat — as “perhaps the emblematic hard-times food in the American pantry.” It then suggested that the economic collapse was good news for SPAM workers in Austin, Minnesota, since penny-pinching Americans will be more apt to eat what they produce.
We [...]

Prison Tour Fun

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Prisons are certainly no laughing matter, with their gas chambers, gallows, and electric chairs, and their daily melees of shower shivvings and cell block riots.

The Upside of Upside-Down

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Displaced and discombobulated at Top Secret
With Election 2008 upon us, we decided to feature the future home of the next US President as Sight of the Week. But what the — ? The White House has been scooped up, whisked to Wisconsin Dells, and dropped like something with toxic cooties. What evil force could [...]

Reluctant Pals of the Presidents

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Mindful of the upcoming election, we decided it was timely to revisit the National Presidential Wax Museum.

Your Grandparents Saw This

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

In our mad rush to get places and see things, we are usually oblivious to just how long that snake farm or hub cap museum has been open for business. Could our parents have seen that petrified Arabian giantess? Our grandparents???

Lake Erie’s Roadside Monster

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

For years, sailors on Lake Erie have reported seeing a long, thin creature swimming in its murky waters. Is it a prehistoric monster? A floating log? Leftover garbage from when the Cuyahoga River caught fire?
Len Tieman, who owns the lakeside Prehistoric Forest dinosaur park in Marblehead, Ohio, is squarely in the monster [...]

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