I have a question. Has anyone else noticed that the Ring camera chime has become the unofficial soundtrack of modern life? I’m on a train. Ding! At the airport. Ding! On the beach. Ding! I’m beginning to suspect that even international waters aren’t safe from the neighborhood watch. […]
What’s a completely useless fact you love sharing? I have a confession. I spend an unreasonable amount of time investigating things that serve absolutely no practical purpose in my life. Not career development. Not financial planning. Not learning how to fix something around the house. Useless information. You […]
Apparently, scientists are baffled by an unusual relationship between a male donkey named Patroclo and a bull named Achille in Italy. The two have developed a remarkably close bond, described by researchers as a socio-sexual relationship. Yes, a donkey and a bull. And here I am thinking my […]
Some people join a gym. Some people download a fitness app. And apparently, some people commit crimes and accidentally enter an endurance competition. A 51-year-old man in Windsor, England, recently led police on what officers dubbed the “Great Windsor Triathlon.” The itinerary? Steal a bicycle, ride it, abandon […]
Apparently, 2026 is the year of Nessie. The Loch Ness Monster, Scotland’s most famous alleged resident and the ultimate queen of hide-and-seek, has reportedly racked up 15 on-site sightings so far this year. That’s more than double the six recorded in all of 2025. Across the decades, the […]
I have a small obsession with tracking weird crimes. Although weird might be too narrow a definition. Unusual crimes. Bizarre crimes. Crimes that make you stop scrolling and think, Wait. What the actual heck? I don’t necessarily want to solve them. I’m not planning to start a corkboard […]
What’s the weirdest movie you’ve ever watched? There are weird movies. There are surreal movies. And then there is Naked Lunch, a movie that makes you wonder whether the filmmakers were on drugs, whether you should be on drugs to understand it, or whether the entire point is […]
There are days when I think the bears have figured out life better than we have. Recently, a black bear wandered into an Alaska shopping mall. Yes.A shopping mall. It apparently walked through the automatic doors, stole a peach, pooped on the floor, and left. And honestly? Respect. […]
I love a news story that makes me stop and think, Wait. What? Recently, someone in Washington called 911 because they heard loud banging in their house and thought they had a burglar. Reasonable. Except when the police arrived, the burglar turned out to be a bobcat sitting […]
I’ve been deep in an email purge lately. Archaeology of the digital kind. Dusting off threads, deleting ghosts, time-traveling one subject line at a time. Somewhere between “unsubscribe” and “why did I save this,” I stumbled on an email I sent to myself back in October 2022 with […]
