Cool Obscure Facts

I love this scene. It’s so cute and romantic. And, for all those Medieval scholars out there, this scene reminds me of a posy that was often engraved inside Medieval marriage rings: Many are thee starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.This isn’t the first time Astarion has…

If you are playing Baldur’s Gate III Early Access, as I am, you will have noticed in Patch 4 there is a new scene with Lae’zel and that adorable tiefling couple. The tieflings are talking about having a cat as a pet, since dogs aren’t allowed in the city of…

I love the stuff one can find when researching in old newspapers. I also love that humans have been fascinated by cats and dogs cuddling for centuries. This would have been on I Can Has Cheezburger if it took place today.

Kitty to the rescue.

It’s Halloween. And when many people think Halloween, they think Salem, Massachusetts. Because it’s basically our Mardi Gras. Want to know practically everything there is to know about Salem? From witches to how a Salem boy became a Chinese god, to where the Murder of the Century occurred, and including…

Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead with a black cat Adam Howden (voice actor for Anders in Dragon Age 2 and many other voices, like the Ostagar Prisoner, in Dragon Age Origins) is known to have two black cats. One of whom is Goose: This is Adam Howden: There is also:…

No, that’s not code for anything. My girl kitty literally has been shaved. I love how she has tiger-striped skin as well as fur. We chose to do this for two reasons: 1) We don’t have central air conditioning and her thick Maine Coon fur coat makes her hot and…

I was going through some old photo albums and found this. The red arrow is pointing to the pilot’s head. Yes, I am in an airplane cockpit, on the jumpseat behind the captain, as our commercial passenger airplane flies over the Arctic. Because waaay back in the day, a time…