Allison Parliament placed a small rubber duck on a Jeep along with a friendly note as a way of lifting her own spirits and brightening someone else’s day.
Jeep ducking, sometimes called Duck Duck Jeep, is a recent but remarkably enduring folk custom within automotive culture that reflects how modern communities form rituals around identity, kindness, and shared experience. The practice originated in 2020 during the social isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic,
R.S. Thomas, the Welsh poet and Anglican priest, left a body of work that is slowly becoming recognized as among the best and most important religious poetry of the twentieth century.
Ronald Stuart Thomas, known universally as R. S. Thomas, was born on March 29, 1913, in Cardiff, Wales, and grew up in circumstances that shaped both his linguistic outlook and his inward, often austere temperament. The son of a merchant seaman, he experienced early instability, living for a time with relatives in England before returning to Wales as a young adult. Although Welsh by identity and emotional allegiance,
The name Hadacol was derived from the ailments it purported to cure—headaches, indigestion, nervousness, aches and pains, colds, and constipation.
Hadacol was one of the most notorious American patent medicines of the twentieth century, emblematic of both the lingering faith in “tonics” and the excesses of postwar mass marketing. It was created in the late 1940s by Louisiana state senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, a flamboyant political figure who understood publicity as well as he understood populist rhetoric.
Elephant seals are among the most extraordinary marine mammals on Earth, embodying extremes of size, physiology, and endurance that set them apart even within the seal family. They belong to the genus Mirounga, within the family Phocidae, the so-called true or earless seals. Only two living species exist today, the northern elephant seal,
Piping hot caffeinated beverage – Adam the Woo
The phrase “piping hot” is a vivid English idiom used to describe something that is extremely hot, most commonly food or drink, and by extension anything that is fresh, immediate, or newly arrived. Its power lies in its sensory immediacy, evoking not just temperature but motion, sound, and urgency, as if heat itself were actively traveling outward.
These are songs that contain the word “take” in their lyrics.
“Fearless” is a song by Taylor Swift written by Swift and Liz Rose and originally released in 2008 on Swift’s second studio album Fearless, with production by Swift and Nathan Chapman, and it functions as a thematic mission statement for the album’s idealized vision of youthful bravery, romantic optimism, and emotional openness,
Reporting on several guys that have recently passed.
These guys were a cartoonist and author of the comic strip Dilbert; musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead; film director, screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist and playwright, best known for his Disney work; and the bass guitarist of German rock band Scorpions.
One of the most credible and consequential unidentified aerial phenomenon cases in modern American history
The confirmed UFO sighting associated with Shiloh, Illinois in 2000 is widely regarded as one of the most credible and consequential unidentified aerial phenomenon cases in modern American history, largely because it involved multiple trained law-enforcement witnesses who observed the event independently while
This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite drug related songs. See if you agree with any of these!
In part one I picked, “Novocaine for the Soul”, “Day Tripper”, “The Pusher”, “White Rabbit”, “The Acid Queen”, and “Poppies”. Here I’ll write about another six that I’ve always liked. “Comfortably Numb” is one of Pink Floyd’s most enduring and psychologically resonant songs, written primarily by David Gilmour with lyrics by Roger Waters
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Aleister Crowley was born Edward Alexander Crowley on October 12, 1875, in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, into a wealthy and intensely religious Plymouth Brethren family. His father, Edward Crowley, was a successful brewer turned lay preacher whose death in 1887 profoundly affected the young Crowley, fostering both a lifelong rebellion against evangelical Christianity and an obsessive engagement with religion in transformed, esoteric forms.
