Did you have Cricket Magazine as a kid?  I’m pretty sure that’s where I originally learned about the Great Molasses Flood, but I can’t search archives to be sure.

CSM is an interesting publication as christian science is about as big an oxymoron as bright darkness. Except here, one literally has nothing to do with the other, while light and dark are two sides of the same coin so not as big an oxymoron. I just couldn’t come up with anything better. :P

I normally will work on a laptop while watching TV in the background, so I’d waited until I knew I could keep it off during a long weekend before I finally binged something I’d saved until I could give it my full attention: Season 2 of Babylon Berlin.

Probably the spookiest part of this thing to me, if I remember this one correctly, is it’s a situation where people gathered to gawk at the fire that led to the explosion, because it just looked like a fire a long way away, and they figured they were at a safe distance, just consuming the spectacle. Then, in the blink…

I don’t really care about Dark Crystal but I remember the puppets in the old movie were neat. I’m in favor of neat puppets and so I endorse the puppets Netflix thing even if I never watch it. Please watch it twice on different accounts for me, thank you in advance.

boston sticky!

The Buffalo Creek disaster was the subject of a landmark class action lawsuit that every American law student studies in civil procedure class.

There’s a Drunk History about it, plus it (understandably) turns up in a lot of articles of the “odd stories from history” variety.

ITS DEBRA MESSING, YOU GAYS!

The Port Chicago (California) explosion during WW2 is another horrifying one. Not as awful as the Halifax explosion, but still huge — one report said the fireball was two miles across.

Maybe that’s why I’m thinking of it

I could have sworn I’d read about the Great Molasses Flood on Wiki Wormhole at some point, but it must have been somewhere else, since I can’t seem to find it in the archives.

My Grandfather had just left the Port and saw the explosion in his rearview mirror. He told me he turned around and went back to help. He also told me that earlier in the day he had been working around the Grandcamp and had seen several strange men wandering around it smoking even though the “Smoking Lamp” was not…

I was lucky enough to catch The Adventure Zone live in Atlanta on Friday night. It’s easy to be disappointed that it wasn’t a “Balance” story (especially since the last Atlanta TAZ, which I missed, is one of the all-time greats) but it was really good nonetheless. I won’t spoil it since it’s sure to go up in the feed…

Big Daddy.

A sad footnote. When the first ship was burning, the local elementary school took a class down on a field trip to the levee to look it it. When the second explosion happened they were all killed.

The K-drama rom-com “Melo Is My Nature” (alt title ‘Be Melodramatic’) is airing its 7th and 8th episodes out of 16 this weekend. Its charming, quirky, modern and self-aware with some of the most quotable dialog lines that I’ve heard (read in translation) for awhile. Some of the humor is so bonkers it could almost be…

I remember Honey Bunches of Oats!

I’m going to watch my first anime tonight! I’m pretty anxious about it. My friend finally talked me into giving it a try. I'm going with Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood at his suggestion.

After finished King of the Hill Season 3 for a complete rewatch a hiatus has been taken to binge The Handmaid’s Tale Season 3. The cracks are definitely starting to show. While the series is still very well-made, its also become increasingly more frustrating.