The art of sword swallowing

I was skimming my RSS feeds and came across this fascinating Q&A with trivia on the art of sword swallowing. And it’s creepy cool. Check it out.

My favorite bit of trivia: In carny lingo, sword swallowers are called “blade glommers” or “steel slurpers.”

HA! Suck it, steel slurper! Love it! Happy Saturday!

You have GOT to be kidding me

Someone wants to remake Plan 9 From Outer Space. Plan 9 is an Ed Wood film that’s often referred to as the worst movie ever made. This guy wants to remake it. And has this to say about the remake:
Simply titled “Plan 9″, the remake will be a serious-minded retelling of the original story, paying [...]

History’s mysteries

This is pretty cool – today researchers announced that they think they know what Stonehenge was for. It seems that they’ve found a bunch of cremated human remains there so now they’re thinking that it was a place for human burial ceremonies. There’s a pretty cool article about it here. Neat stuff though I’ve always [...]

Cool spy toys

There’s a book coming out soon called SpyTech that details, well, spy technology used by the CIA. Gizmodo has a cool gallery of awesome spy cameras from the book. I want a spy watch!

In other spy news, New Scientist has a write up on the feasibility of James Bond’s spy toys. Some of those crazy [...]

Even more planned remakes

MGM might be looking at remaking RoboCop and Red Dawn. *sigh*

21 Jump Street is coming to the big screen, written by… Jonah Hill (the heavy set kid from, among other things, Forgetting Sarah Marshall). No Johnny Depp, I’m NOT INTERESTED. Seriously though, is the world jonesing for MORE 21 Jump Street? Really?

Highlander is [...]

Busy weekend, sorta

On Saturday night we finally saw the awesomeness that IS Point Break LIVE! Let me tell you, when you go to a play and they ask if you want to pay $1 for a poncho, the answer is “YES.” We had a blast. They started with the casting of the evening’s Keanu. A bunch of [...]

Memorial Day Thought

On this Memorial Day I wanted to pass something along. We still have a lot of men and women serving abroad, both in Iraq and in Afghanistan, among other places. And to bring a bit of cheer to those dedicated men and women who are serving much longer than usual, there’s been some talk of [...]

Coming to Broadway

Oh my goodness, there’s a Bruce Lee musical coming to Broadway. Cinematical says this:
According to Variety, the show will incorporate Lee’s biography with elements from the Monkey King story of Chinese mythology. BBC News adds that the musical will include martial arts, Chinese opera, modern dance, and pop music. So, yeah, it gets weirder the [...]

Wildfire!

We woke up this morning to the smell of smoke. The across the courtyard neighbor
was out on his balcony smoking so we thought that was it, no big deal.

And then the smell got stronger and smelled more like wood. There’s some kind
of work going on outside so i thought maybe it was a chain [...]

Photo of the day

I ran across this post on the Mental Floss blog (which, by the way, is awesome) about a man who took a Polaroid picture of himself every day. And it documents his life, his wedding, and then, suddenly, his cancer. You need to read the post to get the full impact, it’s kind of a [...]