This member of the succulent family -I’m guessing here because its leaves feel like they’re retaining fluids- was the only survivor from the group of cuttings I planted in December… right before a freeze. Just stuck them in the ground. You’d have been right to bet on a quick demise for them all. This one [...]

pre-Steve Perry. With apologies to Pam, of course! With original members Neal Schon and Gregg Rolie, fresh from Santana.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 21 (UPI) — The World, Dubai’s artificial sandy islands shaped and named after countries, is sinking into the sea, evidence suggests. I guess that’s what happens when you have more dollars than sense… H/T Cracked.com

Not that I know him personally, but Steve Perry turns 62 today. Ah, the 80′s. Was there anything they couldn’t do?

Tea Party-backed Representative Renee Elmers plans to carry a concealed weapon: Given that North Carolina is a “gold star” open carry state, were I Elmers I’d be carrying the biggest .44 Magnum I could find on my hip to send a clear message that our Second Amendment rights are a serious issue and not something [...]

I stepped out onto the front porch to water some plants and noticed how the Areca palm’s leaves looked like they were glued on, first one this way, and the next the opposite way. Cool. We had the last, dead coconut palm cut down… a full year after the freeze killed it. I just hung [...]

Toronto art exhibit to show violent images of Obama, Pope Among the paintings to be displayed is one of the Pope, in which the portrait is riddled with bullet holes. The gallery said this particular work is “a less than subtle expression of the hurt and anger directed at a pontiff and an institution that [...]

A primary school in the UK thought it would be ‘creative’ to scare the ever loving hell out of the mere babies attending by telling them that World War III had broken out and that London was under bomb attack… They showed footage of war, sounded air raid sirens and even went so far as [...]

Red reminds me of apples. And communism.