One thing I've been wondering lately: who are the equivalents of Huell Howser for other states or regions ( Read more... )

kerri9494 griped a bit about Those People who are always re-inventing the past:

Dear America, George Washington wasn't a Christian. Nor was Abraham Lincoln. Nor Thomas Jefferson. Nor John Adams. Just saying.
--- kerri9494: And from today
I'm sure that Those People aren't taking this into account, but my late grandmother always used to say that back in the ( Read more... )

Was Phil Spector the first celebrity convicted of murder? Or is the linked article playing tricks with definitions? He's excluding socialites and people who became famous *because* they killed or committed other crimes; that seems reasonable, so let's restrict it to people who became famous for actually doing something creative or, at the very ( Read more... )

I remembered who the other loser was. Leonardo da Vinci ( Read more... )

... is people who became famous after being failures, in one way or another ( Read more... )

I've been only occasionally online, because there was a bout of really hot weather and my computer started to act up, so I restricted my computer usage to cool parts of the day. What I've been doing instead is finishing reading Sylvie and Bruno/Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, which I may have to write about at some length later. I'll just say here that ( Read more... )