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Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs wanted to make sure the place was uninhabitable if the Lees ever tried to return. He ordered the graves placed as close to the mansion as possible.
My latest for Mental Floss. Happy Memorial Day!
Apparently I slept longer than I thought. My Mental Floss article actually went up Thursday. It’s no. 10 for last week!
Ashe is at Mental Floss now!
“His memory was a mess, as full of giant holes as an old sock. Scotland was an accent he loved. On the other hand, he thought a lot about the future. ‘That is one of my characteristics, Lorenzo,’ he said firmly to the bum of a Portuguee who occupied the bunk above, all aswamp in his noisome reflections.” — Fan-Tan, Marlon Brando
Mrs. Middleton would like to wish all the mother’s out there a Happy Mother’s Day. No, really. Good for you.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! In celebration of Mother’s Day, here are some paintings of mothers and their kids.
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On Tuesday, North Carolina voted to amend their constitution making gay marriage illegal. In response, on Wednesday President Obama came out in support of same-sex marriage. It will probably be a long time before anything is decided here, but eleven other countries have already legalized gay marriage. Here are their stories.
My latest for Mental Floss! Please share this one if it’s a topic you care about. The list is a surprising mix of socialist and uber-religious countries. And they are all FINE!
Lie detector image via Shutterstock
According to a 2002 study conducted by the University of Massachusetts, 60% of adults can’t have a ten minute conversation without lying at least once. But even that number makes it sound better than it really is; those people in the study who did lie actually told an average of 3 lies during their brief chat.
Oh yay, this finally got shared on tumblr. Please share it if you liked my first column! Second one coming soon!
If you’ve ever owned a rabbit, you know that they are nothing more than small, fluffy bundles of pure evil. Screenwriters know that, too. Many of them speak the truth with dangerous rabbit characters, but others are too afraid to stand up to Big Cuteness. But even when writers try to make their rabbits seem sweet and innocent, the hellfire within shines through.
Today I made my bunny Sampras internet famous (that’s him.) I also explained why movie rabbits are terrifying.
My first ever column at Mental Floss! Twice a week I’ll be writing an interesting statistics-laden piece about people and how weird we are. Please click, and if you enjoy it please share. I can’t emphasis enough how important it is that these do well.
Also, if you come across any interesting stats about people, please send them my way! Constructive criticism is also welcome.
I couldn’t think of something to write about today so I wrote about other people not knowing what to write about. Meta.
The Shining (1980)
Problem: Busy suburban and family life just isn’t the proper setting for Jack Torrance to write a book.
Solution: A winter away in solitude is, on paper, the perfect place to write with no distractions. Given the opportunity to stay in a hotel virtually alone for a…
I originally posted this in 3 parts a while ago, and now I am re-posting it. It is long…
Part One:
Lets face it: being an actress is not the most immediately lucrative of professions, and it is especially difficult to live on a web series salary. So, after wrapping my latest project I…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that good kid actors are hard to find. It doesn’t take much to ruin a scene. The flash of a saccharine smile or flat, stilted delivery are enough to ruin a perfectly good dramatic or comedic scene. And I could spend days deriding the worts kid actors on television. A fellow critic was joking the other day that they would pay good money to see the kids from several shows (“The Good Wife,” “Smash” and “Once Upon A Time” spring immediately to mind) in some sort of Hunger Games scenario. But I don’t come to you today with hate in my heart. Today is all about heaping praise on those kids (with a hat tip to the excellent casting agents) who can go toe to toe with the acting heavyweights that populate their shows.
New Cracked article with Pauli Poisuo! 5 Ridiculous Origins of Famous Urban Legends!
A very short stop-motion film for my Visual Studies project on ‘Motion’. When I uploaded this yesterday I forgot to change the viewing settings to...
St.Michael’s Mount
Cracked.com has debuted Quick Fix, a daily deal featuring very short articles which can...
UPI/Kevin Dietsch/LANDOV
Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs wanted to make...
Sure, why not. I need to new blogs to follow anyway. Like this ask and ill check out your blogs! Thanks everyone. R x
Either saying “he withholds affection so I want to make him jealous” or getting sucked into that beam of light.
(thanks @kawiller for pic!)
Roughs for Gluttony and Greed from my ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ map project. The final 3D piece didn’t work and I didn’t have the time to finish it as I...
