Reporting on some major passings here early in 2026
These individuals have been a lead vocalist for the the group Three Dog Night; acted in movies and TV such as Home Alone, Beetlejuice, and SCTV; was the original bassist for the band Funkadelic; and acted in movies and television such as Sanford and Son, Baby… I’m Back!, and The New Odd Couple.
In maritime contexts the difference is rooted in size, function, construction, and historical usage.
The distinction between a ship and a boat is one of those enduring questions where language, tradition, and technical definitions overlap rather than align neatly. In everyday speech, the two words are often used interchangeably,
The cemetery became the scene of an extraordinary and deeply disturbing series of grave robberies.
Mount Moriah Cemetery, established in the 1850s along the Philadelphia–Yeadon border, is one of the largest and most historically significant burial grounds in Pennsylvania, containing tens of thousands of interments spanning the Civil War era through the twentieth century. Long plagued by abandonment, overgrowth,
This “Stand Out Single” was written and first recorded by John Hartford, later by Glen Campbell.
John Hartford released the single “Gentle on My Mind” backed with “(Good Old Electric) Washing Machine (Circa. 1943)” in May 1967 on RCA Victor, marking a pivotal moment early in his recording career. Hartford wrote both songs himself, and the A-side was drawn from his album Earthwords & Music, produced by Felton Jarvis.
American cryptid legend centered in rural Walworth County, Wisconsin, particularly along a stretch of road near the town of Elkhorn that came to be known as Bray Road.
The Beast of Bray Road is a modern American cryptid legend centered in rural Walworth County, Wisconsin, particularly along a stretch of road near the town of Elkhorn that came to be known as Bray Road. The creature is most often described as a large, upright, wolf-like or
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.
