Stephen Clark (sgclark.com)

The 1,200 year old Major Oak tree located in Nottingham’s Sherwood Forest (yes, it exists) has apparently died, as it did not produce any leaves this spring.

This time of year is pretty stressful for a subset of teams that play up and down the English Football League pyramid, as this is when select teams lock promotions and relegation from one league to another.

The story of Robert Johnson and his “deal with the devil” to obtain his legendary guitar skills still peaks people’s interest – from Keith Richards to Bob Dylan to the movie Sinners as the most recent example.

Yes, this video is having a moment.

Chicago native Aadam Jacobs recorded his first concert in 1984 on something similar to a Dictaphone.

via NASA Just a stunning photo from the Artemis II mission of the moon eclipsing the sun.

Photo Credit: LA Angels via Kayleigh K This absolutely incredible photo taken (by Kayleigh K) moments after LA Angels Right Fielder Jo Adell robbed a *third* home run of the night off of the bats of the Seattle Mariners.

Over the past few weeks, I have been doing a lot of clean up and updates to this site, mostly with the help of Claude – my new AI friend (LOL).

Just a random photo I took on a commute home from NYC in early March.

Last night at Brooklyn Steel, a concert venue in the Williamsburg section of the NYC borough, Michael Stipe – former lead singer of R.E.M.

Fun story in today’s NY Times about Charles FitzGerald, the so called landlord of Greenwich Village’s St.

Sadly, David Rosen, the founder of SEGA has died.

The old Pennsylvania Station in NYC has always been a fascinating topic for me.

Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty via The Atlantic The above photo – haunting, devastating and yet beautiful all at the same time – from the Eaton Fires in Southern California in January, 2025.

An absolutely insane apartment hit the market on October 15th in NYC’s legendary “The Dakota” apartment building on Central Park West on the Upper West Side.

Last weekend I finished updating all the Wallpapers for the English, Scottish and European leagues featured on the site, reflecting the club kit designs for the 25-26 season.

I’ve updated the English Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two and National League desktop wallpaper collections/tabs for 2025-26.

An absolutely spectacular project from The Pudding.

Nice and relatively well edited/selected list of the Top 100 Movies of the 21st Century from the NY Times.

The ageless wonder Mel Brooks announced that they are making “Spaceballs 2” with a pretty funny reveal video.

Some amazing goals from the past year in the EPL.

Fifty years on, the classic absurdist comedy film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” still holds up as one of the funniest movies of all time.

This past Friday, at Boston’s Old North Church, there was a “Lantern Service” commemorating the 250th anniversary of the famous “Two If By Sea” signal noting how the British Army was arriving in Boston on the eve of the American Revolution.

The Major League Baseball season has gotten off to a spectacular start with everyone abuzz over the newest toy to hit the sport – the “Torpedo Bat”.

This may be ‘old news’ but if you get the chance, go watch the movie Kneecap (Netflix link).

We are a bit too soon into the current sh*tshow presidency to connect policy decisions to lagging economic indicators like inflation and individual grocery prices, however the early reads on recent decisions are not promising.

Newcastle played Birmingham this past weekend and it was a dog fight of a match that Newcastle eventually won.

Recently, prominent blogger Jason Kottke posted that he will be turning a lot of his efforts towards featuring and exposing all the skullduggery currently taking place here in the United States.

As the slow burn coup of the US Government continues to progress, the newly “approved” AG of the US has taken the first step on the retribution tour: The FBI is preparing to disband a team of specialists charged with combating foreign threats to US electi…

About a month ago, Newcastle United walked into Emirates Stadium in London and clinically dispatched Arsenal 2-0 on their home turf, giving Newcastle a sense of inevitability heading into yesterday’s second leg of the Carabao Cup Semi Final at St James Pa…

Baseball is full of legendary characters.

I finished updating all the soccer/football league wallpapers on my site after finally getting to Spain’s LaLiga just before New Year’s and then finishing up the Scottish Premier and Championship leagues today.

There are all sorts of fun stories about people acting up or putting on some sort of a show when the Google Maps van and cameras are passing through town.

An interesting collaboration from, of all places, WeTransfer and specifically, their arts platform WePresent, and the Dutch photographer and film maker Robin de Puy.

The fall out from The Washington Post’s (really Jeff Bezos’) decision to not endorse a Presidential candidate has been swift and severe.

An absolutely stellar rant by Cat Valente on how the perception that the media is liberally biased may be a falsehood perpetuated by financial and ratings driven manipulation tactics, dating back to the Iran-Contra Affair in the mid 1980s: Honestly, I’m n…

Lions Gate Entertainment studios signed a deal with AI company Runway that provides the AI company with access to the studio’s library, with the goal of using Runway’s generative AI capabilities to help augment and support the studio’s film development and

Image via The NY Times Tim Banazek was, like many of us, bored during the heights of the Coronavirus pandemic and decided he’d assuage that boredom by buying several boxes of old baseball cards.

A great site – appropriately named Title Drops – that analyzes all the movies that state the title within the dialogue of the movie itself.

You always see how your plants change over time but this video of time-lapse video and photos of multiple plants, fruits, and vegetables is super cool.

As is often the case, Jon Stewart says out loud what we all saw last night and now can’t unsee.

In a unassuming building in the shadow of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., sits the Folger Museum and its unprecedented collection of 82 copies of Shakespeare’s “First Folio”.

Interesting article profiling Jason Arasheben, a celebrity jeweler who has created several intricate and outrageous championship rings that recent pro sports teams have earned.

The cost to watch TV and Movies at home continues to escalate as streaming services figure out how to compete with Netflix and make their services profitable.

Yesterday, Microsoft released VASA-1, which uses AI to generate video of people talking that is generated by nothing more than an audio clip and a still image.

For those of a certain age, the spectacle of the OJ Simpson trial in the mid 1990s was the start of reality TV.

I watched this whole game last night.

Nice write up on the Apple Vision Pro – https://spyglass.org/eye-dont-have-vision-pro-yet/

I had a fun little interaction with my iPhone, Messages, Apple Maps, Car Play, and Siri last night that sublimely illustrates how far Siri has fallen behind.

Image via Comedy Central on Threads Jon Stewart is returning to ‘The Daily Show’ on Mondays for the next year or more, and will also be Executive Producer of the show.