Penn Holderness of The Holderness Family amusingly put on a curly wig, mustache, glasses, and floral shirt in tribute to his idol “Weird Al” Yankovic and began narrating Thanksgiving dinner preparations with parody songs.
Space 1999 was one of the few sci-fi shows you could see on TV in the 80’s. As a fan of Star Trek, Twilight Zone, and some original Battlestar Galactica I was surprised to catch this one randomly playing on reruns one day.
One episode in particular terrified me when I was a kid. I must have been about 10-12 when I saw it. It was the episode titled Dragon’s Domain. It contained a tentacled creature with a single, gigantic glowing eye. It devoured people by sliding them underneath itself and then spit out a gnarled and blacked corpse! I remember the glowing eye and the character hacking at it with a hatchet. That one stuck with me for years.
Sadly, the rest of the series was too slow/uninteresting for my pre-teen self. Not to mention the fact even I could see the wires ala Dr Who of the era. But hey – it is probably the one episode that really stuck with me so that’s saying something…
Combine some chemicals to create different colored flames then set up a circle of fans – and voila! Instant awesome!
In this video, expert magician Daniel Roy walks us through a series of progressively more impressive card control examples. Gives you an idea of how deep the rabbit hole goes.
It reminds me of Ricky Jay, who often had known con men show up for his shows to see if they could learn new tricks. While Daniel Roy was great in this video above, check out the even more god-like level that Ricky Jay works at…
OtherWorld is a London VR attraction. Unlike many other VR experiences that just use off-the-shelf games you can buy at home, they have their own free-roam VR island with in-game portals to sixteen unique virtual reality experiences.
You also get your own immersion pod – a enclosed room which has dynamic heat lamps, fans, and rumble effects. While you walk around in the VR island, you actually feel the heat on your head from the direction of the in-game sun via the real-world based heat lights that surround you. Fans create island breezes, rumble surfaces create unstable ground, and other effects. Hopefully it survives covid as they opened right before the lockdown.
Genevra Collier (aka tragopandemonium) created an incredible outfit that turned her into a human lava lamp.
This is one of the strangest and amazing things I’ve seen…or rather heard.
Turns out my neighbor’s sister is the voice actress for Tekken’s Nina Williams. Who knew?
When I was a kid, I remember SquareOne TV very fondly. I even got the weekly activity books (which nobody seems to remember or mention besides myself) and remember being so excited when they came. It really turned me on to math and eventually computers.
Here’s one of the better resource collections for SquareOne. But if you want to check out some episodes, you can see some of them on YouTube:
Country music in Europe is a little different than in the US…