Cool Obscure Facts

I have re-done my HIDDEN HISTORY OF SALEM book-teaser because MY BOOK INSPIRED A SONG and that is just too cool not to share: Buy the book!  You’ll like it. Click here  There’s real history plus cool obscure facts plus ghost cats and candy and coffee and romance and a…

I love Chris Avellone. Seriously. He is the coolest dude. And I shall now believe in my heart of hearts that Vulpes/Arcade is canon. (FYI: The link in the above tweet I sent goes to THIS post) Everything is Vulcade and nothing hurts!! You would not believe the squeee-ing and…

A quality coffee post by enderrr: Yes, folks, this is a coffee post. At least once a day someone comes in and asks me which different roasts we have, or tells me they’d like a cup of the dark roast because they ‘like strong coffee’. I politely tell them we have…

This blog post is from: http://bathsbloggers.blogspot.com/2011/08/sweet-cheese-cake-but-not-as-we-know-it.html Sweet Cheese Cake but not as we know it…. You will need: 130 grams plain flour 250 grams ricotta cheese 1 egg 4 bay leaves 4 tablespoons of clear honey Serves 4 Libum to be made as follows: 2 lb cheese well crushed in a…

This snippet is from a late Victorian medical book written by a (male) doctor. I just love the line: “… I am afraid the poor little uterus would be constantly skylarking from one part of the pelvis to the other.” My first thought upon reading this was that Aristotle’s theory…

I’m a research fiend. I admit it. I love the hunt for obscure facts, the thrill of discovery… far more than the tedium of actually writing the stuff down. So I spend ages sorting through ephemera on tangential subjects that will never actually imbed themselves anywhere but inside my brain…

Have you read this yet? A new uncensored edition of Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray has been released. What I find particularly amusing is the reasoning behind the censoring in the first place – the editor “Decid[ed] that the novel as it stood contained “a number of things which an innocent woman…

I honestly love our local news: Police responded to five large pigs stopping traffic on Main Street. Two cruisers and Lt. Bob Hazelwood joined the effort to return the pigs to their pen. It wasn’t easy. “One of those pigs is over 400 pounds,” Hazelwood noted. Nor are pigs easily…

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