How to create awkward photos, 101: Put Pope Francis and Vlad the Impaler Putin front of the same camera.

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The history of history in 2 minutes.

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Mushrooms 'Make Wind' to Spread Spores

This is an amazing study..

Mushrooms 'Make Wind' to Spread Spores

Every time I laugh at the 'prophecy of the popes' this happens: Francis does something to remind me of it

The latest event to raise my conspiracy-tainted eyebrows: The Vatican has Peter the Roman on the display—the first pope—and it’s the first time. It’s happening under the watchful pontificate of Pope Francis. 

Reports indicate that the bones of the body supposedly of Peter. 

Does this pope knowingly make these allusions to St Peter just to  mess with people?

Soda vs. Pop vs. Coke: Mapping How Americans talk

The ATLANTIC article is fascinating.. Mapping how we say certain words tells a story of who we are and shows a picture of how we migrate.

Soda vs. Pop vs. Coke: Mapping How Americans talk

Fraternity Pledge Loses Testicle In Hazing Ritual

The one nut frat house. Up on the hill.

Fraternity Pledge Loses Testicle In Hazing Ritual

The invisible island where New York buries its poor and unidentified

I reported on this about a month ago for the first time, it was around Halloween when I took note of some stories on this island.

Since then I have noticed much more attention being paid, in this article summed up the mysterious darkness that surrounds the silent night..

The invisible island where New York buries its poor and unidentified

10,000-year-old house uncovered outside Jerusalem

Will this change the timeline that some people thought the human race is on?

10,000-year-old house uncovered outside Jerusalem

When grapes attack..

Well, not the actual grape, but the life form that exists in the bag of them.

A few days ago, a friend showed me a video cell phone video from her daughter—it was a video of a spider crawling around in a bowel.  I was told: She went to a big grocery store and bought a bag of grapes. When she came home, she found a black widow lurking within her fruit.. When she returned the grapes, the store manager said that he heard other states had the same reports.

And now this..

There is a story online today about a woman who found a black widow spider in her grapes .. in Pennsylvania.  The story is NOT about my friend’s daughter—but the story if certainly similar.  And her story is also the same as others from the nation, in which people in several states are reporting this sudden rash of venomous spiders..

I often wonder if stories like this are just another little urban legend, a blip on the rumor radar—intensified by the free wheeling internet. But I bring myself back to reality with this little fact: ANY black widow spider on grapes found could be potentially deadly.. 

Clean your grapes.

And watch for the spiders with hour glass red ..

Nothing creepy about this, now is there?

You are looking at an image of the official portrait of the Danish Royal Family by Thomas Kluges. And it’s really, really weird.

GAWKER has some observations on the matter.. GAWKER described the painting the best, and I will not even try to match it. Caity  Weaver wrote:

The painting depicts three generations of royals, all eerily aglow as if they have just feasted on a village of Thomas Kinkade’s flaming houses, dressed in various articles of clothing proportionate to their size. Its members engage in their various favorite pastimes: holding onto a baby’s leg; constructing a tower to heaven as an affront to God; using black magic to animate a toy horse, causing it to prance and lurch with queer, jerky motions. In the foreground, an 8-year-old bores into the souls of those Beyond The Fourth Wall. Behind the group: the ruins of the city they have destroyed.

The ghastly image is terrifying. Though the official description of the painting says the Royals are featured ‘their own universe’ in plain clothing, it looks more like the cover of a bad horror flick. The only thing missing on the girl in the left hand corner is blood dripping from her mouth. The boy directly in the middle appears to be a harbinger to an OMEN sequel, and faces on the grown men appear to be hiding a undesirable scowl of evil.

It has been called terrifying.
…horrifying..
UPI says it will haunt your dreams.

Can anyone really disagree with those hypotheses on the art?

And here is a must read for a chuckle: Check out the comments section on official Kluge painting website. They are formulating a hypothesis that it appears the Danish royals are feasting on the blood of innocent peasants. 

Your eyes are not fooling you.. You are seeing two children in this photo—though only one child was present when the picture was snapped.

According to NEWS 9 in Oklahoma, Scott McCabe was taking a photo of his son’s cousin on his cell phone. McCabe’s son was not there because he died on May 20 in the Oklahoma tornado at Plaza Towers Elementary—the school devastated when the storm his. McCabe believes that his son is present in the photo of the girl, named Madison, with sparklers on the Fourth of July..

McCabe has faced some criticism online, with some accusing him of faking the photo. But I watched the interview that NEWS 9 had with McCabe. I saw a man who was humbled and brought to tears. I saw someone who found comfort in this photo.. 

And that may be all that really matters.
Comfort.
Peace of mind. 
Love.

There could be an opening for someone who wants to be the next Art Bell

Art Bell announced yesterday that he was throwing in his towel and choosing to not fight Sirius XM radio. They are holding him to a non compete after his brief stint on satellite radio ended abruptly after his ‘Spooky Matter’ Halloween show.

But now news is coming from Bell that his fans—and competitors in a sense—may benefit from his absence from radio. Artbell.com is planning on utilizing free streaming to simulcast paranormal and other related programs. There is already a planned schedule at the website put up by webmaster Keith Rowland.. The announcement on the main page reads:

While we wait for Art’s return, we’ll be offering up other Internet radio shows on our LIVE stream, for your listening pleasure.

Monday - Paranormal Podcast w/Jim Harold

Tuesday - The Spec Sheet w/MV and Curtis

Wednesday - Podcast UFO w/Martin and Sam

Programs start at 8 PM East / 5 PM West

The stream will be running 15 minutes before the scheduled time of the show. Watch for more shows to appear here. If you have a show and would like to be streamed here, contact webmaster@artbell.com.

This could be an exciting time for someone who wants to take a foot int he door approach.

There seem to be a void needing to be filled with Bell’s departure. Sure, Coast to Coast AM exists, but in the current incarnation, we know it lacks the zeal and spontaneity that Art Bell brought to radio.

Now with the Dark Matter network, there seems to be a chance to do something new, creative, and cool on line. 

This is the latest GFS model run. If you’re driving anywhere you see blue and purple on the East Coat this Thanksgiving eve, get prepared. It may be a ‘planes, trains, and automobiles’ type of scenario for you, with snow ruining many people and their voyages..

BUT..

At this point computer guidance is still crazy… nothing seems to be resembling any consistent or coherent forecast at this point.

It seems that models are converging no the notion that a snow event somewhere will happen.

But where? What timing? 

Check back on that.

The witching hour deal: 3am agreement signed to freeze key parts of Iran nuclear program

There are some historic developments taking place in Geneva today/tonight/now: 

From the WASHINGTON POST report file this hour by Anne Gearan and Joby Warrick: 

Iran and six major powers agreed early Sunday on an historic deal that freezes key parts of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for temporary relief on some economic sanctions, diplomats confirmed.

The deal was reached after four days of marathon bargaining and an 11th-hour intervention by U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other foreign ministers from Europe, Russia and China. the sources said.

The agreement, sealed at 3 a.m. signing ceremony in Geneva’s Palace of Nations, requires Iran to halt or scale back parts of it nuclear infrastructure, the first such pause in more than a decade.

The report goes on to say that this deal with make it virtually impossible for Tehran to build a nuclear weapon.. so we are told.

Box Office: 'Catching Fire' Ablaze Friday With $70.5 Million

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

HUNGER GAMES is setting some box office theaters on proverbial fire with a pre-Thanksgiving weekend romp.. It’s going to be a big movie when final numbers come out.

Just in my little neck of the woods, the theater at the Schuylkill Mall in Frackville PA actually devoted all of its theaters to this film on Friday due to the demand for ticket sales. And even my quiet and reserved brother, who seldom takes part in such affairs, went to the movies with his family to see this film. If Lionsgate got my brother, well hell they could get anyone. 

The other part of this weekend’s box office is just how bad Vince Vaughn is doing. According to the DEADLINE breakdown from Friday night’s box office, the DELIVERY MAN is a big bust.. But next to HUNGER GAMES, nothing really can compete.

We are told that experts are predicting $150 mil plus for HUNGER GAMES. That’s big. And it will be the biggest November film ever. And maybe some other records, too…

Box Office: 'Catching Fire' Ablaze Friday With $70.5 Million

It’s been a long day for the Mut and the Spud

A Saturday in autumn under a cold November sky.. Hard to believe this is thanksgiving week already. Get some spirits ready and hope for a safe drive no matter where your weekend travels take you.

Good evening everyone.

Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter

This is a big deal—especially with how often people swipe photos and steal with attribution or permission ..

The internet is evolving to formulate a legal future. Perhaps rulings like this will create some sort of code of ethics…

And in a sense it’s a victory for independent journalists too, those who are doing the reporters’ work for them.
Think of it: how often when breaking news occurs, the networks just start following citizens’ Twitters and blogs.

Now there is a new ground rules. There is fair use—now a court decided to chart a course on legal use.

I think I agree with this decision and wonder secretly of I have ever violated it…

Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter

Three 'slaves' rescued in London were shackled by 'invisible handcuffs,' police say

I reported on this story a few days back.. It’s not a surprise to me that these unfortunate women, who now have thirty years of horrid memories, we’re confined by mental torture and not physical restraints…
Servitude is not dead no matter how many people think it is..

Three 'slaves' rescued in London were shackled by 'invisible handcuffs,' police say

Tyson Foods dumps pig farm after NBC shows company video of alleged abuse

Pretty horrendous … You are what you eat.
I have happily not eaten pork for a while now and I am completely ok with that.

Tyson Foods dumps pig farm after NBC shows company video of alleged abuse