A new kind of lake monster has been found, in the depths of Lake Tahoe: gigantic goldfish. Researchers trawling the lake for invasive fish species scooped up a goldfish that was nearly 1.5 feet long and weighed 4.2 pounds.
I don’t think this one would be flushable. But I love to see someone at a county fair trying to swallow it
It happened on West Coal Street in Shenandoah, PA. The fire broke out at 330am … no one was killed, but there were injuries. Multiple buildings were destroyed.
Fires happen every day every where. But when you hear of an entire block being torn down by flames, it’s a reminder to me of why I don’t want to live in a row home setting.
Face your fears.. drown them away.. take comfort in tea.
I enjoy herbal tea. I drink green tea as a matter of fact.. sometimes nighttime tea.. sometimes tummy tea. All that.
But watching horror movie icons, such as Pennywise the clown, drown in a hot cup of Herbaria is alarming.
Whatever happened to rustic pastures filled with green grass and purple mountains of majesty? Or the birds flying calmly over a sea of golden water as the sun sets. I can think of plenty more relaxing images than watching Pennywise die of drowning.. in your tea.
I get the concept. The ‘drown your fears ‘thing means to let go and just ….relax.
But relaxation and brutal images don’t go together well.
Horror movie fans may be fine with the concept. As for me it is not offensive at all. But for Herbaria’s marketing technique, I just don’t know how well this will work. A video of Pennywise dying on camera……and the message telling you to just relax. It just does not seem to work.
Advertising folks out there, or even tea drinkers, I’d love to hear your thoughts?
Weather permitting, my wife and I are going to have our first date night in about a year (seriously).. And if it’s dinner and a movie I have the eatery in mind but need help on the movie. So fellow internetters, was IDENTIFY THIEF funny?
I cannot relieve myself of the tired feeling I have on a Friday evening.. The weeks can be so long.. I recall being in my 20s and the week truly just began on Friday night. Now I’m wishing I could sleep for 72 hours. I cannot even fathom how I’ll feel at 4/, 52, and beyond..
No one looks up anymore.. People just stare at their feet when they walk, or gaze lovingly at their phones.. There could be a military invasion in the sky and hardly anyone would notice. The fact there are still UFO sightings surprises me..
There is an absolute horrific story.. tourists were drinking water filled with bacteria from a decomposing body..
It’s not the plot of a movie. It’s real life.
Elisa Ham’s corpse was identified in the water tank on the top of Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. According to reports, Ham was missing since January.. Detectives are now investigating the matter as a suspicious death.
According to CNN, a maintenance worker was on the rooftop trying to ascertain why water pressure was low.. That is when he came across the decomposing body..
Read on if you want to be horrified..
Not only did patrons complain of low water pressure at Cecil, but according to those interviewed by CNN, the water also ‘had a funny taste.’ One person said she and her husband used it for eight straight days.. According to another account from a patron of Cecil Hotel, water from the shower would turn black at first use and then evolve to ‘normal’ .. According to the CNN piece, the hotel has not closed at this point, it’s open for business but they are advising patrons not to drink the water..
Whether there are health risks posed to the persons who partook in drinking and showering in water filled with bacteria and germs from decomposing water..? Well. We didn’t get that answer yet from officials, either law enforcement or heatlth.. But.. common sense would advise…….. THERE IS.
I’m pretty sure I predicted this would eventually happen, but I’ve written too much to readily find it..
A subatomic particle discovered last year that may be the long-sought Higgs boson might doom our universe to an unfortunate end, researchers say.
The mass of the particle, which was uncovered at the world’s largest particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva — is a key ingredient in a calculation that portends the future of space and time.
So I must ask the question of my British friends and followers, did you stop eating meat yet?
And to everyone else who didn’t find horse meat (yet) in food: Did you?
Would you eat it?
Have you eaten it?
Did it taste like chicken?
The coal region of Pennsylvania was a quaint little place since I can remember.. I was born and raised (for a bit) in Centralia PA, with a mine fire burning hot under my feet.. My family moved to a nearby town.. my heart and soul has been in this place for a long time.
But perhaps the same ties that bind you also trap you in.
I read an article today in my morning paper.. It’s a little inside baseball perhaps, but it’s on my mind.. The article paints a story of a dying area.. Restaurants and bars are shutting down in the coal region.. the Pottsville REPUBLICAN and HERALD speaks about Cactus Jacks, the Restaurant at the Station in Tamaqua.. Yockos in Minersville. (All big deals).. another bar detailed in the article is only open one day a week..
A bar being shut down in the coal region is a big deal. You’d expect in this area a dirty little tap room would be shuttered if they were serving underage minors. But in the economic troubles lately, the prime reason for closure is money troubles..
I think back to my life as a child. The area, then, wasn’t the best. As mentioned at the beginning of this post, it’s a nice little quaint place, for sure.. but things to do? This ain’t no city, bo. There were restaurants and run down bars, and a mall or two or three, or ‘tree’. When I was a child I didn’t think there was much to do. No kids did. It’s why most of them had ‘bush parties’ where beer was served in the middle of no where. But today, now, I look at the local disgrace the area is becoming and wonder if anything is left for my son to enjoy.
I thought deeply about this as a result of that newspaper article. What does bind me to this area? It’s family. That is the answer.. It’s family.. I don’t work close to here, I actually commute a distance. My wife does too. When we want to do something with my son, we travel away from here.. But when we want to be comfortable and feel at home, here we are..
I think it was always that way, a bit. I believe that this region ‘felt like home’ .. It’s why, for decades, the Ashland Boys Association Parade was filled with thousands. Until it got canceled a few years back and struggled to begin again. Good luck to Ashland bringing it back in ‘13.
It’s also why a town named Girardville hosts a spectacular St. Patrick’s Day parade. Even Bill Clinton showed up in 2008 to campaign for his wife. The town wholeheartedly supported him.. he even had a screamer from Tony’s.. no word on whether he became immediately dyspeptic.
There are other pearls that can be unearthed from time to time. Jim Thorpe is a beautiful and fun place.. Schuylkill Haven hosts a great summer weekend with fireworks.. and the Bloomsburg Fair is going strong.
But what else is occurring?
Crime… drugs… lots of drugs. Lots of drug abuse. Lots of dilapidated homes literally falling down into streets (Girardville, PA)… and now closing businesses..
The Schuylkill Mall is being hard hit, as are other malls. A new refurbished movie theater opened. I wish them luck and hope the mall stays open. I recall some early memories as a kid thinking it was a mecca of shopping.. of course smoking was legal indoors the smell of cigars also fills my fading memory..
I just hope and pray that, as long as we choose to live in this place, it will stay safe and quaint.. and more and more quiet, perhaps..
Family is why we stay.
Besides the ties of that, there are few others …
However … even one day if the Coal Speaker leaves the coal region, you will never be able to extract the ‘area’ from him.. or anyone else that chooses to go.
After high school several friends had a mass exodus from here to go other places. Many returned and now, again, live locally after ‘living their lives’ in a city or larger place.
But the coal region can come back, though it will never return to the paradise that it was during the coal mining days—that paradise was not shared by all and truly only for barons and bosses of coal mines that could care less about safety of workers. A part of this region’s history is that it was filled with hard workers and good people. Conservative Democrats… fair-minded but also sometimes a little suspicious of ‘outsiders’. Perhaps that also became its 21st century demise..? Any for of progress is despised by too many, forcing those younger with dreams and ambitions to look elsewhere to find that progress.
I don’t know.
I cannot count myself as smart enough to understand why an area disintegrates .. I wish I was smart enough to know how to bring it back.
But I’m not.
So with that all said, I end with this: Perhaps within the next few years my wife and I will be forced to make a decision. Keep the ties that bind us knotted and tight, or loosen them up and fly away. No matter the choice, we have a third party role: Our son. And in the end, it’s his future that matters the most now of all.
Since NBC is making us all feel older (but not wiser) with a replay of the 1990s SNL… why not go with it. Here’s GARBAGE with WHEN I GROW UP. Where were you when the song was being played too much on radio? I was going into my senior year.. the world was ahead of me.. as it may have been with you.
And where are we now..?
So tonight NBC decided to play a blast from the past. The Saturday Night LIVE pop culture show all about the 1990s. And originally aired in 2007.
So it’s not bad enough NBC is reminding people how old they’ve gotten, but they have to doubly do it by reminding us with a repeat of a reminder!
