I love a good roller coaster. It doesn't have to have a million inverts and upside downs or be the fastest for me to like it - I mean, I'll take those too, but I really just enjoy any roller coaster. Here are a few tha...

I've been training for a 20k that takes place at the end of May, and I can definitively say that you will never find me on anyone's "Fastest Runners" list. "Slowest Runners," "Saddest Runners," "Runners with the Worst F...

Most of us are familiar with Shel Silverstein through his amazing works of art and poetry for children. But Sheldon Alan Silverstein was a lot more than that, so to honor the 10th anniversary of his passing, here are a...

When we think of volcanic disasters, the first couple that usually spring to mind are the Vesuvius eruption of 79 A.D. that wiped out Pompeii and the Mt. St. Helens eruption of 1980. But while these are among the most f...

I haven't seen the original Ocean's Eleven (blasphemy, I know), but I know I like this one quite a bit, even though it's not the type of movie I would normally gravitate toward. Before we get to the trivia, we'll do a q...

On May 8, 1970, construction workers clashed with students and anti-war protesters in New York in what became known as the Hard Hat riot. But it's far from the only riot to ever happen in New York City (as I'm sure resi...

This week’s artist was quite a treat for me, although I’ve always loved Jane’s Addiction, I didn’t know much about their lead singer. Turns out he’s done a whole lot for the music community at large. Pe...

It was 72 years ago today that the Hindenburg caug...  ...ted in an area that he and his fellow riggers had exclusive access to, and another rigger reported seeing a f...

Surely you've used emoticons before, or at least encountered them while surfing the Intertubes, but did you know that they've been around since the 1800s? Or that a computer scientist came up with the...

Joe Strummer was a highly political-minded musician with a love of music from all over the world. While many of you may only know a few of The Clash singles like "Rock the Casbah," the group had a lot of diversity and is...