Two intersecting questions ( Read more... )

Today I heard a song on a country station that I liked and I need help finding the name of it. It was sort of a quiet song, not a rockin' country song. It was sung by a man and a woman. The only lyric I remember is the repetition of the phrase, "Lovers always win." Google turned up the song "Lovers Always Win" by Matt Pond PA, but I can't find this ( Read more... )

There's a fairly current commercial out there on US television (though it could date back a few months, because I've been watching some older stuff off the DVR). It has ~3 women, sunning maybe, possibly by a pool. One of the women is talking about never really having money or being able to save, but every time the camera cuts to her, she has ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a YouTube account that posted mostly scary stories, in a kind of mockumentary style, narrated by a woman. The videos themselves would usually be a series of still images that helped set the scene or tone. I remember two stories in particular, one called either "Spoon" or "Fork" about some sort of monster rat living in someone's ( Read more... )

Over the past decade or so, I've been noticing a particular red rose variety that seems to have become ubiquitous in institutional landscape planting, at least in southwestern Ohio (we're on the cusp of Climate Zones 5 and 6.) The flowers are fairly small and loosely formed but profusely borne, in a bright, clear, slightly blue-pinkish red-- ( Read more... )

One of my LJ correspondents, dochermes, has been wondering:

SONIC BOOM AS WEAPON. My puny Google skills have failed me, but I recall reading that (probably in the 1950s?) that the US military intended to use a huge low-flying jet as a weapon. It would create a sonic boom right overhead, stunning or injuring enemy personnel (I imagine ruptured eardrums ( Read more... )