As if we needed another example of how technology is creeping into our brains, how about this one: YouTube’s Video Discovery System? It’s one thing for Google and YouTube to follow closely behind your interests; we’re all accustomed to that. But now they want to match you step-for-step and even go ahead of you, predicting… Continue reading YouTube’s Video Discovery System is Creepy
Author: Lee Wallender
Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.
Clickbait Warrior Explains: “Guy Spots Mysterious Hole In A Lake, But What It Really Is Shocks Him”
You know these Sponsored Content ads at the bottom of articles that are obviously clickbait trash leading to twenty slides just to figure out that the “secret to erectile dysfunction” that “doctors don’t want you to know” is a turmeric and vinegar cocktail? Even though it’s obvious garbage, you still have barely enough interest that… Continue reading Clickbait Warrior Explains: “Guy Spots Mysterious Hole In A Lake, But What It Really Is Shocks Him”
Man-Eating Sex Queen of Great Neck, New York, Dorothea Matthews
This English Tudor house, located at 201 Clent Road, Great Neck, New York, may not look like much of a love nest. But in 1948, its chief female resident, Mrs. Dorothea Matthews turned this house into something approaching the Playboy Mansion, East. It wasn’t until Mrs. Matthews’ divorce proceedings from her husband Mark Matthews in… Continue reading Man-Eating Sex Queen of Great Neck, New York, Dorothea Matthews
When a Lowly Writer of Pirate Tales Found His Way
He was old, his wife sick, he had lost his job, and he was drinking too much. It didn’t help that the country had hit rock-bottom in the worst financial depression of its history. Still, the human spirit persists. In 1932, jobless and dejected Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) persisted in a very small way by signing… Continue reading When a Lowly Writer of Pirate Tales Found His Way
Before Borderline Bar & Grill Was Charley Brown’s Restaurant, Thousand Oaks
The Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, site of the November 7, 2018 shooting of 12 people, has been around for a long time in various iterations. In Thousand Oaks, a bedroom community 40 miles from Los Angeles, where everything is torn down and rebuilt on a regular basis, it is virtually unheard… Continue reading Before Borderline Bar & Grill Was Charley Brown’s Restaurant, Thousand Oaks