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By Boing Boing on Jul 11, 2024 in: poetry
Popular English language folk songs from yesteryear typically go like this: I love that handsome lad/ but mother, he won't wed me or I love that handsome lad/but father doesn't approve or I love that handsome lad/ah shit I'm pregnant/time to go to he...
By The Ripple Effect on May 30, 2024 in: Italy
Italy must be a dark and foggy place, where eerie organ music sounds from candle-lit churches and icy winds blow between rotting gravestones. How else could one explain that the trio from Italy spreads exactly this atmosphere with their soun...
Fox Sports talking head Colin Cowherd said his Westerly, R.I. house was broken into on Feb. 23, and he theorizes that the alleged perpetrator might have had the wrong address. Read more...
By Business Insider on Oct 27, 2023 in: Science
People believed to be vampires in real life may have had a disease. Here's how people throughout history dealt with the beings famous in folklore.
By Business Insider on Oct 21, 2023 in: Science
People believed to be vampires in real life may have had a disease. Here's how people throughout history dealt with the beings famous in folklore.
By Jezebel on Sep 5, 2023
Taylor Swift likes an Easter Egg. We—you, me, the 75-year-old man who owns my bodega—understand this to be basic fact. But it would appear her former lover fancies one too.Read more...
By Life Hacker on May 15, 2023
Modern parents are ill-prepared to deal with threats to their families from the fairy kingdom. Kobolds, elves, goblins, pixies, and other fey creatures have a long history of stealing human infants and replacing them with uafs (or oafs), creatures th...