We all heard the big news when Hugh Hefner died. His first playmate, Marilyn Monroe, the celebrity that helped launch his controversial magazine to super stardom, was someone he had never met. In spite of this fact, he chose to buy the last piece of real estate he would ever use right next door to her. After decades of a life that few of us can possibly imagine at...
It’s the number one country in the world for potassium and number two for prostitutes. The residents drink fermented horse urine. You can thank Borat for everything we know about Kazakhstan, which is nothing. The only things that Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 film parody got right about the world’s 9th largest country, is it’s flag and place on the map. Even the...
I’ve been a Dali stalker lately. Ever since I came across a few strange exhibits of the infamous Salvador, I’ve been a fan. Not of his boring early stuff, mind you, but more of the “what was this guy on?”art. He was the Lady Gaga of his time. the guy making meat suits before it was cool ; The man who almost asphyxiated himself...
Venice is one of those special cities in the world that always has something new up its sleeve. No matter how many times you’ve been or what you think you know, there’s some new adventure waiting around an alley way that you never knew existed . The Venetian empire, at one time spread all the way down the Croatian coast to Crete. Such figures as Marco...
Machu Picchu. The name conjures up images of impossibly tall mountains, llamas, colorfully dressed natives and amazing ruins. Machu Picchu means “old mountain” in Quechua. “Inaccessible mountain” might be a better name since there’s nothing really easy about getting there. However, with a little patience and determination, anyone can...
Austin is unlike any other city in Texas, or anywhere else really. The capitol city is famous for it’s music scene and artistic laid-back attitude, but places within a few hours drive have never seemed as exciting to me as going somewhere where you have to board a plane. Consequently, I have always bypassed Austin for greener pastures. When I ended up...