The premise is ingenious: we have the classic Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet most memorably told by William Shakespeare but we experience that story from the perspective of Godzilla.
How does Godzilla appear in the most well-known play? My immediate thought was to replace Friar Laurence with Godzilla as the cleric's personality and role in the story is very fitting for the great kaiju.
But it will be necessary to wait for the release of IDW Publishing's one-shot comic book on April 8 to know for sure. Godzilla's official website informs us that readers can expect love, intrigue, and the destruction of fair Verona.
The grandeur of the Pokémon universe began thirty years ago and Japan is celebrating the franchise. Sora News 24 tells us that a permanent Pokémon theme park is opening in Tokyo. It's called Poképark Kanto.
It consists of two sections: Pokémon Forest, where visitors will be able to encounter Pokémon in natural environments, and Sedge Town, which consists of attractions aimed at the needs of trainers.
A few promotional photos are available. They show this lovely carousel ride with your favorite pocket monsters. You'll be able to ride it starting on February 5 with the grand opening. But demand for tickets is so high that the park managers have a lottery system for visits up through March.
"Yeah, I know how stupid this is. But it had to be done."
No, Aaron Christophel is far, far from stupid. His project is intelligent and thoughtful. What if you want to play Doom but only have access to a Krups Cook4Me electric cooking pot? Christophel provided detailed instructions on which steps you need to take.
If I understand him correctly, Christophel has arranged his Doom porting in such a way that a person must complete the game in order to again use the cook pot for cooking food. That's motivation to kill the demons and secure final victory!
This gentleman on the Chinese video hosting app Bilibili plays the erhu--a two-stringed bowed instrument. It produces excellent fiddle music as aptly demonstrated with the American folk song "Dixie." The erhu's vibrant notes transport us to a land of cotton for old times there are not forgotten.
-via Orikron, who imagines the song as authentically Chinese had the Ming dynasty had not closed off private maritime trade in 1371.
Can I tell you how to get to Sesame Street? Yes, but I assure you that you should go as a tourist. You do not want to actually live there. The residents are freaks. And I don't mean just their physical features, but also their behaviors. Comedian Ross Snow depicts life as a normal person on The Street.
Like all morally decent and right-thinking people, I enjoy pineapple on pizza. But that's not the only fruit that can do well on pizza. The Takeout has a list of 10 others, including pears. Pictured above is a pizza photographed by Flickr user Edsel Little. It is topped with caramelized pears, field, greens, onions, mozzarella, and fontina. The Takeout recommends crisp pears because they're unlikely to go soggy while baked and their soft flavors will accent rather than overwhelm the cheese.
What other fruits work? The Takeout suggests apricots, apples, berries, pomegranate seeds, plums, melon, mango, melons and dates. Which have you tried on pizza?
In 1862, John Gilleland was a 53-year old carpenter in Athens, Georgia. He was too old to serve in the Confederate Army, but he was a private in a home guard unit. Determined to find some way to counteract the Union's massive manpower advantage, he devised this cannon to fire chain shot.
Chain shot--a length of chain between two cannon balls--had been used for centuries for anti-personnel purposes or, in naval applications, to destroy rigging. But such shells were usually loaded into a single cannon.
Gilleland's innovation, according to a 1996 article by military historian Lonnie R. Speer, was to cast a cannon with two barrels side by side. The barrels were pointed 3 degrees away from each other so that the chain would fan out and sweep through the bodies of Union soldiers.
Test firings revealed many technical problems. The chains would break apart and the balls would scatter wildly--a problem exacerbated when the firing of each barrel was not precisely simultaneous.
Gilleland's cannon was used in battle only once in August 1864 outside of Athens. I have no information about the utility of the cannon in that battle, but the Confederate forces were compelled to withdraw despite its use.
This unusual weapon resurfaced in the 1890s and, in 1957, was put on public display in Athens.
Yes, the base of this table is exactly what you think it is. Papaya Studios is an antique store and design studio in Thailand. In fact, it's the largest antique store in that nation. The size allows for a variety of unusual items, such as this coffee table that is definitely a conversation piece for your next home gathering.
Housekeeping is not a prestigious profession, but any job takes skill and, given enough time, consideration, and determination, a person can demonstrate a mastery of that occupation that can astound outsiders.
The International Sanitary Supply Association is a professional organization for the people who keep our environments clean, safe, and orderly. Each year for 35 years, the ISSA conducts a championship competition of core housekeeping skills. Teams from the top hotels of Las Vegas converge in an arena to prove which is the best at vacuum cleaning, mopping, floor scrubber driving, and more.
Fox 5 Vegas News reports that, last December, teams from Resorts World, Aria, and V-dara claimed the top prizes. Watch them in action.
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
It's an advanced math textbook, so the authors correctly assume that readers will be familiar with Black Speech, which is the tongue of Mordor. This particular passage is famously inscribed on the One Ring in the Elvish Tengwar script.
Let's say that snow rarely hits your region but it's snowing anyway. You want to go sledding, right? But with no sled, you might have to improvise.
Daniel LaBelle is a physical comedian who makes us laugh by risking his safety. In the past, we've seen him play the floor is lava with his entire house and being physically aggressive all the time.
In this video, LaBelle finds ways to slide down an optimal sledding hill on a frying pan, a suitcase, bubblewrap, a pair of baking sheets, rollerblades, and more. His use of a laundry basket is probably ideal.
Dr. Justin McDaniel teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. One popular class that he teaches is called Existential Despair. In this class, 13 students arrive at his apartment where they are given copies of a short novel. When Vulture magazine visited his class, that novel was Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome.
The students silently read for a few hours. They are forbidden to talk or use their phones. They may not take notes. That's because they're not studying the novel--they're experiencing it.
McDaniel then conducts a discussion of what they've read with an inevitable emphasis on the despair of the characters and themselves. McDaniel, 53 and recently divorced, is intimately familiar with despair. He tells his students:
I always say, ‘I’m not concerned with their 19-year-old self.’ I have no interest in their 19-year-old self. They’re hopeful. They have their life ahead of them. I’m 53. I’m worried about their 53-year-old self. I’m worried about the midlife crisis. I’m worried about the divorce.
McDaniel is, fittingly, composing a book about the literature of despair titled This Will Destroy You: How Literature Teaches Us to Flourish in the Face of Existential Despair.
Watergate is the short-hand name for the political controversy that brought down the Nixon Administration. This Watergate is a card game from 1973 in which two to six players accuse each other of malfeasance and try to deceive each other. Bribery is not only permissible but encouraged. Everyone loses, but some players lose more than others.
The key to success in this game, as in so many other dimensions of life, is to lie persuasively.
In this video, Board Game Archaeology unpacks and plays this game.
