Tag: strange

One of the most puzzling games of the year probably flew right under your radar. Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and The Lost Demon was first officially revealed at The Game Awards 2022 on December 8, 2022, but was hidden as a playable teaser in Bayonetta 3. It deviates quite heavily from its...

In Edinburgh, there are two levels of streets. One on top of the other. When the old town became crowded they just built more buildings on top of the old ones. Some are 14 storeys high. The station is on the bottom level but not underground. Not a great photo but there’s another street ...

Just south of the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles sits Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The 62-acre site borders Paramount Studios and boasts 80,000 gravesites including more dead Hollywood icons than anywhere in the world. Burial sites include Cecil B. DeMille, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Jayne Man...

In 1991, I lived in San Francisco and was in desperate need of work. I grabbed a Bay Guardian newspaper and searched the classifieds. There were plenty of clerical and medical assistant gigs but I didn’t want to work in a corporate or hospital setting. I considered a bike messenger gig but thi...

I’ve found that every single day, every single hour I undergo various forms of suffering/pain caused by the absence of my Twin Flame(Physically or otherwise). Whether that’s in the form of silent suffering such as a feeling of great Loss, a sadness weighing down on me constantly; or in t...

I felt a deep sense of sympathy for him as I walked past, and I placed a 5-rupee note on his outstretched arm. As I put the money in his palm, he stirred and said to me, “Hey, come here. I want to give you something.” Fearful of contracting his illness, I responded, “Thank you, I n...

I read there are over 600 ethnicities. Race was created by slave traders in the 1600s to justify harsh slavery of Africans. It doesnt exist. It is a false concept. Ethnicity exists. So does bigotry, prejudice and bias. Also, discrimination exists, sometimes based on bigotry and that we call racism. ...

The Life is Strange series has consistently excelled when it has come to the representation of its LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC characters. The games create an overarching narrative of acceptance and recovery that many LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals can relate to as they traverse the intricate ficti...

Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit ends with the lynching of Henry McIntosh and the community members’ reactions to the murder. Following Ed Anderson murder of Tracy Deen, the townspeople, specifically the poor white mill hands, seek vengeance and they accuse Henry of murdering Trac...

In that place of stillness, he knew he was not his body. The body, once his body, floated nearby. He was aware that he was not his body. A strange blue light hummed along his spine, calmed him, and gleamed with the pulse of the stars. He saw a dome of clear sky ringed with tall trees. All night t...

In an effort to explain the underlying laws and forces of the universe, physics is a fascinating and frequently mind-bending branch of study. Even though physics is sometimes perceived as a difficult and abstract science, there are many interesting experiments and phenomena that can both amuse and t...

This area is where an impressive mountainous massif rises, surrounded by sandstone rock formations that resemble enormous sentinels that have been worn down by time and the elements. It is Tassili, a word that comes from the Tuareg and means “plateau between two rivers.&...

This area is where an impressive mountainous massif rises, surrounded by sandstone rock formations that resemble enormous sentinels that have been worn down by time and the elements. It is Tassili, a word that comes from the Tuareg and means “plateau between two rivers.&...

That’s maybe a weird way to put it when I could just say Two of my friends have cats. But that’s not the strange thing I have in mind. What’s strange about 0.1 cats is the fact that you can use plural marking -s in cats. When we talk about deci...