Random Wiki Stuff II

 I didn't see a lot of hope for the news tonight, so I said, "Good grief, I'm going to have to do this random wiki thing again!"  If you wanted to run off screaming into the night, I'll understand.

Post 1- A Predicament

This was basically Edgar Allen Poe being a smarta$$.  Our heroine is walking the street with her 3-foot tall servant and her 5-inch tall doggie (yes, you have that right) when she decides to explore a Gothic cathedral.  Spying a tiny window she wanted to peek out, she finds she's peering out the face of a giant clock in the steeple- and guess what, the minute hand is suddenly pushing against the back of her neck.  Eventually, after it pops her eyes out, it severs her head which falls to the street.  Apparently still alive, she continues to narrate the story, as her servant scampers off in fear, and her tiny doggie gets eaten by a rat.  The "flip side" was a companion piece called How To Write A Blackwood Article; seems Poe disliked this magazine's formulaic horror stories.

Post 2- Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder

The original NFL today made stars of a bevy of people, including two that got bounced for outside activities.  One was Jayne Kennedy, who got canned for a "too sexy" ad for a soda, and the other was "betting expert" (AKA pro gambler) the Greek.  His offense was during what would be now called a podcast, he answered a question about the future of African-American athletes by explaining that the way they were bred by the last century's slave owners made them superior athletes.  While Jayne would have survived these days, the Greek was going to be blackballed no matter the era.

Post 3- the USS Tamalpais

This was the exciting (cough cough) story of a tanker that did two tours of duty running drinking water during WWII and shortly thereafter, later hauling oil, and finally being converted into a "floating power station".

Post 4- 2018 Ventforet Kofu season

Just as exciting was a page of results from a second-level Japanese soccer league team.  They finished 9th.

Post 5- Aradippou

This is a tiny town in Cyprus, whose one possible claim to fame was its founding by one Rhodippus, a warrior returning from the sack of Troy....

Post 6- Grammatophora

 A diatom first discovered near Guam.  Unfortunately, Poe never wrote a horror story about diatoms.

Post 7- Joseph Morgan Henninger

Well he moves the interest meter a few hairs.  Born in my own home state, in Elwood Indiana, he was an artist of some renown.  He has works in such places as the Pentagon and the Air Force Academy (where they proudly display his portrait of Chuck Yager...

Post 8- Neo Chorio

This week our focus seems to be on unheard-of small towns in Cyprus.  This one has basically become a "refugee center" for Turkish Cypriots fleeing from the Greek side of the island.

Post 9- List of California suffragists

That certainly sparks new interest in Neo Chorio....

And finally...   

Post 10- Some Wilderness

An apt name for this entire post, it was a studio lp by a Brooklyn indie band called Oxford Collapse (2002-2009);Leader Michael Pace went on to even more obscurity with The Child Actors (2012-2019).

So after a strong start, this fell into about what I expected quickly.  You can do your part to prevent posts like this: go out and do something stupid, get it on the news, so that I can find it and make fun of it!