Hair has always played a significant roll in rock and roll folklore. From the Comets to Lady Gaga, just how well do you know your…
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The French are no strangers to the typical stereotype clichés adorned to them. From their clothes to wine and baguettes. Vive la différence.
Pepsi is going retro with their Pepsi Throwback line of classic Pepsi. Look they even brought back sugar. REAL SUGAR. None of that high fructose…
Prince William and Catherine Middleton are getting the royal treatment. Well, maybe not. The not so faltering comic book adaption of their love story is…
If your city has an Egyptian march to support their families back home, I encourage you to walk like an Egyptian. If you can’t walk,…
Taking a closer look at Van Gogh's artistic spectrum, Arthur Buxton, in his remarkable work, has presented a series of pie charts that meticulously disperse the colors employed by Van Gogh across these iconic artworks.
Photographer John Olson in the year 1968 associated with LIFE magazine took a picture of Grace Slick, sharing the frame with her mother and a delightful new addition to the family, little upsidedown China.
Is this the way of the future for governments to stifle their population by cutting them off from the rest of the world from the…
There are not too many companies in the United States that are over 100 years. IBM is turning 100 years this year. IBM has been…
There have been many bizarre and true stories of states that almost made it into the union. The state of the union would not be…
Evidence that the paperboy is out like the dodo bird. Many of us, including myself had a paper route. Just to scrape a few bucks…
The Batmobile has gone through a whole evolution since it made it’s first appearance as a Red Roadster in Detective Comics #35. Below is a…
The Post Office (USPS) is honoring the greatest industrial designers that shaped our daily lives. The things we use daily that we take for granted…
Like something out of The Last Man on Earth or Logan’s Run, Detroit City once the pulse of the industrial machine of America is left…
How did Deep Purple come up with the famous Smoke on the Water riff? Ritchie Blackmore comes clean and confesses he stolen the riff from Beethoven's 5th Symphony. He claims he loosely played Beethoven's 5th backward. The rest is history as Funky Claude was running in and out pulling kids out the ground, Deep Purple ran to the bank with their biggest hit ever. Poor Beethoven never saw a royalty check. Rock historians will point out that Smoke on the Water was based on Iggy Pop's Stooges song "Loose" and borrows many melodic elements from the song released two years earlier. You have to have a keen sense of musical hearing for that one.
By the end of 2011 somebody on this planet will become the 7th billionth person to be born. Since 1880 we had a population of…
You have to ask the experts the difference between Christmas and Xmas from MerriamWebsterOnline and you will surprised to learn the answer. The debate of…
It’s been a good year for many and not so for others. Examine 2010 through the clicking of Google’s Zeitgeist. We got most of our…
Perhaps the last thing that John Lennon autographed for his soon to be killer Mark David Chapman’s copy of Double Fantasy is up for sale.…
Duncan Ian Macpherson is considered one of Canada’s best political cartoonists. He received the highest honors bestowed for an editorial cartoonist; the ORDER OF CANADA,…
We always seem to think that things were better in the old days. Ask women how they were portrayed in ads in the past. Were…
This has to be the line of the week. “That imbecile is going to be the next president of the United States.” The imbecile in…
Yes Virginia, there is a Vulcan. It’s located in Alberta, Canada. Canada also has William Shatner. The town was named in 1915 by a surveyor…
Your vote counts. Don’t let them tell you otherwise. If you don’t like the situation that you are in right now. Vote! Vote with your…
Mojo has their Mojo working this month. Celebrating the little record outfit Elektra that went on to produce for them perhaps the greatest American band,…
The success of the Peanuts can be pinned down to one letter written to a fan of Peanuts in 1977. In the letter Charles Schulz…