From the minds of the writers at Robot Chicken, it's time for Medusa to get her freak on; The Pirates of Dark Water visit Flint, Michigan; Yarel Poof returns to see how the Star Wars Saga ends.
Titan Leeds included the Leeds family crest on the masthead of his almanacs in 1728. A stylized version of a wyvern could easily become a description of the Jersey Devil if people didn’t know what they were looking at and use it as part of a growing animosity the Leeds family was gainin...
THG is doing the first driving stint so I’ll be able to read my book n stuff. That’s one of the benefits of only having her car to drive. She wouldn’t drive my old Defender as it was too bit. I didn’t mind really but it did mean we wouldn’t be sharing the driving and ...
In other news I upgraded my Google storage from 2YB to 5TB yesterday. Was at 80% capacity which Google regularly reminded me of. Then yesterday for some reason my phone photos didn’t back up, or at least not immediately in the time I was looking. Whether it was a coincidence or not...
and rich she certainly was in comparison to the privations of her childhood. My parents had a good life and everything to look forward to. They were unscathed, in a personal sense, by the recent war. No close family member needed commemorating in the Walsall Memorial Garden whose foundation...
I do also make a few “vintage” family products that my mom always canned when I was growing up–things like applesauce, and mincemeat for Christmas cookies. Another one of them we call “chili sauce.” It’s like an old-fashioned condiment that is great to make at the end of the ...
“That was my grandfather. He died a few months ago.” “Hmm. Too bad he had to die.” Death is always a painful___especially for a seven-year-old child who’d lost his mother only two years before. I secretly put away the pictures of___relatives. He began to finger through...
through rural Southern country life, and through more travels around the country than most dogs ever have the opportunity to explore. When she died from old age in 2012, it was the biggest grief I had known to date and I missed her presence in my life in a way that seemed forever ongoi...
“I remember my grandfather telling me that some distant member of our family set sail for America and never came back," Giovanni tells Lonely Planet. "I am sure our surname Giacoppo originated in Castanea delle Furie – this is where the family founder was born and is now buried in the...
in a new development with more vacant lots than homes. There was an orange tree in the backyard, and a big sycamore to climb in the front. You could enjoy being outside all through the year. Every Fourth of July, six other families who had also moved West from my parents’ home town...