Monthly Archives: May 2011

Just got this, and a wonderful bit on the show biz it is. The best of what it is.The Spirit of Jennie Lee The Spirit of Jennie Lee   As this big burlesque weekend approaches, I know a lot of people are dealing with high levels of emotion, and recen… Continue reading →

Another record, folks. And yeah yeah yeah, we DO know what a guy’s foot size has to do with. Jeez.Giant Feet | Featured Videos | Comcast.netxfinity.comcast.netGiant Feet. Watch this and other featured videos on Comcast.net! Continue reading →

Verdict’s in, people. Edward Nino Hernandez, World’s Shortest Man, Crowned By Guinness World Records (PHOTOS)www.huffingtonpost.com(AP) BOGOTA, Colombia â Edward Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance re… Continue reading →

Just got tipped off to this fairly incredible article by the damned incredible Todd Robbins. Can’t picture a better piece of start-of-the-summer hooha. You?To Heaven by Subway (Fortune, 1938) – Fortune Featuresfeatures.blogs.fortune.cnn.comEditor’s … Continue reading →

If you like us, there’s absolutely less than no reason not to like Ripley Radio. Hey, they’re with it & for it, and what more could you ask? Go, go now, and like. Ripley RadioThe Ripley Radio Oddcast is an hour journey through the weird, wacky, whimsic… Continue reading →

Crazy Russians. Everybody knows those occult Nazis tried all this stuff too. (And everybody knows it really only works in the show biz.)the The KGB Psychic Files video KGB Psychic Filesxfinitytv.comcast.netVideo of the KGB’s bizarre psychic experiments… Continue reading →

Amazing. Just amazing. Hope someone we know gets it.Quigley’s Cabinet: St. Vitalisquigleyscabinet.blogspot.comBeing a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and pe… Continue reading →

Well. We were certainly impressed. (And boy howdy, that Elizabeth Anderson; the hits just keep on comin’.)The 5 De-To, Rotating Perch Act (1973) – Circopedia on blip.tvblip.tvThe 5 De-To, rotating perch act, at the Fövárosi Nagycirkusz in Budapest (1… Continue reading →

If you don’t think the folks who ply their wares in NOLA are top shelf, well, you need to know better. (And many thanks to Elizabeth Anderson for tipping us to this one.)Quarter Rat’s Street Performers of the French Quarterwww.quarterrat.comOne … Continue reading →

Might not be the end of the world, but damned interesting times we’re all in when such as these share the earth with us, no?Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?www.nytimes.comThe miraculous life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan and what it could reveal about… Continue reading →