For more than six months, I dated someone whose favorite movie was "The Room." He brought it up on our first date, waving the red flag right in my face. I should have known better. Maybe I'm generalizing, but I think the movies we like reveal something essential about us. They can show us our fears, the feelings we wish we could experience, the problems we're anxious to avoid or the person we'd like to be. If we're obsessed enough, the dialogue leaks into our daily conversations, a secret code that only other fans will be able to hear.
-SF Gate
He started out by wandering around Washington with a Leica camera, and soon received training, equipment and encouragement from Stryker, Evans and other FSA photographers. By 1938, he was shooting solo assignments. Here, the still-green photographer explores the streets of Chicago in 1941, capturing images of city life in photos that are sometimes distant and unobtrusive, but often sharply observant and quietly funny.
-Vintage Everyday
Let’s have a look at a selection of odd and perhaps lesser-known album covers from yesteryear – all featuring alcohol of all varieties. Whether it’s beer, wine or the hard stuff, records and drinking have a long tradition of working well together. Enjoy.
-Flashbak
Ask an older person to recall their most vivid memories, and there's a good chance that many of them will come from the same time period – between the ages of 15 and 30. That's the time period when six of the 10 most important events in a person's life typically happen, according to a 2004 study: starting school, going to college, getting their first job, falling in love, getting married, and having children.
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Science Alert
New York is the most populous city in the United States, and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term New York minute. Before the great clean-up began, New York had abandoned blocks dotted the landscape, creating vast areas absent of urban cohesion and life itself during the 1970s. These amazing photos from Andy Blair that show another side of New York in the 1970s.
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Vintage Everyday
Not so long ago, we gave you Intoxicating Album Covers: Boozing It Up on Vintage Vinyl; featuring ladies enjoying alcohol on album covers. Now, let’s direct our focus to another medium – magazine covers, specifically vintage adult magazines. Cheers!
-Flashbak
Knowing you're in love feels different for everyone. Some have been in love often and know the feeling well, and others may be not so sure if it's love or just a deep infatuation.
Luckily, your body has some pretty sneaky ways of tipping you off to whether these feelings for your partner are more than just a passing phase. Keep an eye out for these tell-tale signs the next time you catch yourself wondering if you're actually in love.
-Insider
James, 58, is in in a sexual relationship with a 5ft tall sex doll called April – and his wife Tine doesn’t mind. He is still with his wife, but admits to having sex four times a week with the blonde doll – and he even takes her on dinner dates. The engineer is now saving up to get his hands on the world’s first sex robot Harmony, who is being designed to talk, smile and react during sex.
-Daily Star
The tip came on the last day of January 2014 to special agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement: A drug courier was about to land at the Baltimore airport with a large shipment.
Hours later, the agents asked the man, Edgar Franco Lopez, a Guatemalan, to search the three large duffel bags he was loading in a car outside the airport. But agents found only food. So they bluffed, saying they had found evidence of drugs in the bags.
The driver, Edwin Quintana Carranza, a Mexican in the United States illegally who had claimed the bags were his and consented to the search, confessed. The drugs were hidden in the sugar wafers, he said.
-NY Post
There are no aliens at America's most famous top-secret military base, but what is there is just as interesting. In the middle of the barren Nevada desert, there's a dusty unmarked road that leads to the front gate of Area 51. It's protected by little more than a chain link fence, a boom gate, and intimidating trespassing signs. One would think that America's much mythicized top secret military base would be under closer guard, but make no mistake. They are watching.
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Popular Mechanics
At an early age, you’re taught not to talk to strangers. Originally meant to protect us from childhood harm, this rule follows most of us into adulthood. We keep to ourselves in public places. We avert our eyes on public transport. We stand frozen in the corners of cocktail parties and extended family gatherings, preferring to chat to the few folk we know rather than risk a conversation with an unknown entity. When you’re greeted with a rogue “Good morning!” as you pass the neighborhood fruit seller, you might jump, wondering what they want, or if you’ve spilled coffee down your front.
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Quartz
