Do you feel an affinity with the supernatural in literature? Is your spiritual home a cobwebby, half-ruined castle somewhere in eastern Europe? Do you curl up at night with a collection of vampire stories, or a volume by Poe, or Le Fanu? If you do, then why not join The Dracula Society? From Surfer Richard Crowe http://www.thedraculasociety.
Grape foam injected with walnut milk and covered in powdered Maytag blue cheese. It’s the American food revolution http://www.city-journal.org/
Sponsored by the Treasury Department and the Saturday Evening Post, the 1943 "Four Freedoms War Bond Exhibition" was our first national "blockbuster." Exhibited not in museums or galleries, but in department stores for a year during the depths of World War II, it made an already well-known illustrator a household name.
What the crowds came to see were paintings: "Freedom of Speech," "Freedom of Worship," "Freedom From Want" and "Freedom From Fear" (now all prominently displayed in the Norman Rockwell Museum). http://online.wsj.com/article/
22 North Koreans found themselves off the coast of South Korea while fishing and demanded to be returned to North Korea. Big mistake. It appears they were all executed. http://www.liveleak.com/view?
Speaking of North Korea, there are mysterious fires happening all over the country http://www.foxnews.com/story/
Toy robot heads!
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It's the not-to-distant future. They've turned off the Internet. After the riots have settled down and the withdrawal symptoms have faded, how would you cope?
We asked you to Photoshop what life would be like in an Internet-addicted society learning to cope without it, and offered $50 to the winner. That winner is below, but first, the runners-up... http://www.cracked.com/
Historians are having a difficult time trying to understand what period in history? The Cold War! http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/21/the-cold-war-never-ended
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Barbara Crane: Private Views - Public Spaces at Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago, IL. "...An in-depth look at a deliciously colored and daringly intimate group of 4 x 5 Polaroid's made between 1980 and 1984. To obtain these, the undaunted artist prowled the lakefront and outdoor festivals seeking to capture and redefine the language of human connection. Faces play their crucial roles but Crane often gives equal or greater weight to the dialogues of other parts of the body - the dance of arms, legs and especially hands with their probing fingers – all conversing with mute eloquence in the public square."
http://www.stephendaitergallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_display.asp?Exhibit=Current&EventID=2