Balloons vs Icicles

Icicles generally win.

We have movie sign!

erasing.org has a look at the International Space Station logs and pulls out all the references to movie night.

6 JAN 2001: We eat dinner and watch "GI Jane". Lots of SEAL questions, and Shep explains why this is not exactly like the real SEAL training.

6 FEB 2001: We ate some dinner and watched the last part of "City of Angels". Shep did his best to explain to Yuri and Sergei what the phrase "chick flick" means.

Oh No!

Music and Arts Festival. Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters was performing his song, “Pigs,” to 50,000 people when a giant balloon in the shape of a 50-foot pig rose from behind the stage and floated above the audience.

Organizers cut the anchor cables free Sunday night and made plans to retrieve the pig when it landed — but as of late Monday, the inflatable animal has not been located. Now, his owners are offering a $10,000 reward for his safe return, plus lifelong tickets to Coachella for four people.

Great moments in damage control

Classic Television Showbiz shares the tale (and clips) of perhaps the most infamous game show failure in television history.

Many shows have been axed after one show, but this might be the only time where the host was allowed to go on the air and spend a half an hour apologizing for the show having been made.

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Candy for your brain

Enjoy the prose poems of Russell Edson.

I suspect that this might not be entirely historically accurate

On the bloody fields of Pennsylvania in 1863, two great armies collided to decide the fate of a nation. The South rose, and the North responded with fervent mettle.

As every schoolchild knows, at the forefront of the battle stood the mighty Yetis, white-furred giants imported from the wilds of Canada to shred the opposing front lines. From the rear, powerful mastodons hurled boulders into the fray. From even further to the rear, great generals engineered the destruction of the opposing forces—and quite often their own.