Super Final NYC Fun Time!! James Earl Jones in You Can't Take It With You!!

Fun Time Part Five! At the Met - Assyria To Iberia!

Super Fun Time!!! Big Bird at Lincoln Center Library!!!

Fun Time Part Three! Times Square!

On the way to O'Donoghue's for lunch.

Fun Time Part Two! Whitehall Street Subway Station!

Fun Time! On The Ferry, Headed to Manhattan!

Bye, Staten Island!

After Dinner Entertainment

Pythons live DVD.

Thanksgiving Dinner

Here's where we had dinner.

Snow on Thanksgiving

And I was just telling my students that Jingle Bells was composed for Thanksgiving, not Christmas.

Happy Thankgiving

No post this morning. Perhaps later today. In the meantime I wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving day.

Travel Photo of the Week

North Oregon Coast

Italian Street Artist Blu Turns 48 Windows Into Faces

See more HERE.

Watch Little Kids React to a Realistic-Looking Barbie Alternative, Lammily

What's Wrong With America?

Although I'm not a big fan of MSNBC (I never watch it), I think Ms Maddow has hit on something here.

Fun Time! Watch Three Grannies Smoke Pot for the First Time!

Artist Sculpts Glass Horse in Under Two Minutes

Found on Colossal.

And The Best Parent of the Year Award Goes To.....

From Laughing Squid...

"Illinois artist Christy Kilgore creates vivid colored pencil and marker drawings on her kids’ otherwise bland brown lunch bags each day. Some drawings are of popular characters like Hello Kitty and Homer Simpson while others are her original design."

Travel Photo of the Week

Garamba National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Will Our Children Be A Different Species?

Sculpting With Nails

John Bisbee scavenged an abandoned house looking for items to incorporate into a series of found-object sculptures and he kicked over a bucket of old rusty nails. He had an epiphany. The nails had fused together into a bucket-shaped hunk of metal.

Bisbee has since spent nearly 30 years using nails as his sole medium to create geometric sculptures.

The 100 Year Old Steampunk Computer

Fun Time! Sesame Street Censored!

Remember: Anything you think you're hearing or seeing is in YOUR head!!

The GOOD City Index - The World's 50 Most Inspiring Cities

What makes a great city? Jobs? Access to culture? Educational opportunities? The folks at GOOD have a different metric.

'At GOOD, we believe that a city’s heartbeat is best measured in "possibility"—the pervading sense that though a place may be far from perfect, its citizens are taking a bold stake in its future through a mixture of creativity, hustle, and civic engagement.'

That sounds pretty (ahem) good to me. And for the second year in a row they are presenting their GOOD City Index, "a celebration of the 50 cities around the world that best capture the elusive quality of possibility."

Another good (again, ahem) thing is that five American cities made the list.

A Sense of Scale - Our Solar System

Travel Photo of the Week

Sicily, Italy

Two Minutes and Fifty Seconds of Amazing: Astronaut – A Journey to Space

Astronaut - A journey to space from Guillaume JUIN

Paper Pop-up Sculptures by Peter Dahmen

When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem

A  new study from Duke University explores the notion that people faced with a problem will deny its existence if they don't like the solution. The researchers conducted three experiments on three different issues -- climate change, air pollution that harms lungs, and crime.

“The goal was to test, in a scientifically controlled manner, the question: Does the desirability of a solution affect beliefs in the existence of the associated problem? In other words, does what we call 'solution aversion' exist?" said Troy Campbell, a Ph.D. candidate at Duke's Fuqua School of Business.

Conservatives and liberals are equally as guilty in this case, the study claims.

“The cure can be more immediately threatening than the problem," said Campbell and added that solution aversion can help explain why political divides become so divisive and intractable.

Fun Time! Meet Clet, Street Sign Artist/Anarchist!

JoJo's Sriracha. Yum.

One of my favorite food finds is JoJo's Sriracha. I comes in various levels of heat. I especially like to drizzle it on smoked herring and salmon and add a touch of it to ketchup on scrambled eggs.

Made in small batches in Brooklyn, it has a very rich flavor. Now we know why.

Yaybahar by Görkem Şen

Travel Photo of the Week

The Coast of Lima, Peru

Janet Echelman's Dazzling Art Transforms Cityscapes

Sharing Activists Plan To Turn LA Into Sharing Mecca

Everyone that doesn't have their head stuck in another part of their body realizes that there are some almost intractable problems facing our nation and the biggest one seems to be economic inequity. But since these problems are "almost" intractable, what's to be done and who's doing something about it?

In Los Angeles, Arroyo Sustainable Economies Organization (ASECO) have a bold plan to turn the notoriously unequal city into a community-oriented, resource sharing city for all. The folks at the website Shareable have interviewed a few of their board members to find out how they intend to do this. If you are concerned about issues of inequality in your area, this is a good place to start looking for answers.

A Japanese Kokeshi Doll Emerges From A Spinning Block Of Wood

Fun Time! Glen Keane's The Duet!