Francia Raisa, in an amazing gift of love, donated a kidney to her lifelong friend Selena Gomez, on the right. Selena has done a lot of good for her fellow Lupus sufferers by bringing attention to the malady. I would hope that we'd all have a friend this good.
My admiration for Cheap Trick continues unbounded, as it has for almost 40 years. This is an "odds and sods" compilation of early recordings, with a booklet containing thoughts on all the songs from their drummer/archivist Bun E. Carlos. It contains about the 27th version of "Surrender" that I've heard, with the original lyrics about whom the WACS recruited. Let me play it for you sometime.
This 102-year-old ship outlived its nautical purposes and now serves as a home for a grove of trees. Nature will do what she will.
The caption I saw for this picture said "I saw Sideshow Bob's truck!" If you love the Simpsons, you know why it's so funny!
A classic old VW Beetle fitted with a tiny camper! Pretty cool, as long as you and your traveling companion are pretty small.
I love interesting New Yorker covers and this appliquéd quilt edition from 1944 is one of the best ever.
Vade mecum is Latin for "go with me" (it comes from the Latin verb vadere, meaning "to go.") The term is used to apply to the stuff we carry in pocket or purse every day, and this is what Abraham Lincoln took to the theater with him that fatal night. Two pairs of eyeglasses, lens cleaner, watch fob, pocketknife, an oversize white Irish linen handkerchief with "A. Lincoln" embroidered in red cross-stitch; a sleeve button with a gold initial "L" on dark blue enamel; and a brown leather wallet, including a pencil, lined in purple silk with compartments for notes, U.S. currency, and railroad tickets. That's a Confederate 5 dollar bill he had just gotten in Richmond as the Confederacy surrendered, because they lost the Civil War. Lincoln went to the theater that night in 1865 believing that the war was over. How wrong he was.
This old dental ad shows a cartoon of a young man whom some say was the model for Alfred E. Neuman of MAD magazine glory.
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