An 82-year-old New Yorker wanted to share his love of astronomy, so he set his telescope up in the middle of a street in Brooklyn last week, just so random people could take a look at Saturn. There’s a video with around 30 people lined up. So yeah, space is still cool. (One angry New…… read more »
The Rolling Stones have a new album on the way. Nevada’s governor wants AC/DC at the Super Bowl. Lou Gramm addressed the fact that the band is not in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and has not even been on the ballot for consideration yet. He claims there’s some sort of problem between…… read more »
A woman dropped her phone in a lake in New Hampshire, but got it back after a random guy on a pontoon boat nearby dove in and rescued it in 15 feet of water. (Here’s the video.)……….Talk about bringin’ home the bacon: An 18-pound ham sold for a record $10 million at the Kentucky State…… read more »
In music news: A study found making your kids take piano lessons could keep their minds sharper in old age. Actually, any kind of music lessons help……………………… The odds of this are nuts: Two kids got adopted separately by the same family in Staten Island two decades ago . . . and just found out…… read more »
An 84-year-old woman in Colorado named Kim Knor has set a goal to go skydiving 1,000 times before she dies. She’s already done about 600 jumps. Her first was in 1959 when she was 20 years old. Then she took a 37-year break before taking it back up. She just did three more jumps the…… read more »
A baby giraffe with no spots was just born at a zoo in Tennessee, and could be the only spotless giraffe in the world. She’s solid brown without the yellow patches other giraffes have. (Here’s a photo.) Experts say it’s a good thing she’s in captivity. Their spots act as camouflage, so she’d have a…… read more »
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter recently saved someone in Upstate New York after they fell off a boat in Lake Erie. The helicopter is normally stationed in Detroit. It just happened to be in the area while heading back from an air show………….. Someone in England asked their neighbors if they’d “take their trash out”…… read more »
Here’s the video for the new Guns N’ Roses tune, “Perhaps”. New Dio box sets are coming on September 22. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons is being honored by BMI with the 2023 Troubador Award. “Carlos: The Santana Journey Global Premiere” is happening September 23, 24, and 27, plus a general release of the documentary begins…… read more »
Two pen pals who’d been writing to each other for almost 70 years finally got to meet up in person. They’re both 80. Carol Krause lives in South Carolina, and Patsy Gregory lives in northern England. They’ve been sending each other letters and birthday cards since they were 12 years old………….. A 51-year-old guy in…… read more »
We might be getting new organs from farm animals soon. Doctors in New York transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney into a patient who’s brain-dead and donated his body for research. Now it’s still functioning over a month later. Experts say it could be a major breakthrough for organ donation……. In other animal news: a team…… read more »