Weird Connections

Quintessential “New England poet” Robert Frost was born in San Francisco. Quintessential “British poet T.S. Eliot” was born in St. Louis, Missouri. The father of Married with Children‘s Katey Sagal was decapitated by a helicopter at Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon.  Adding to the weirdness, the Timberline Lodge was the location for filming The...
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This is more about words than it is about nuclear war. But it’s trivia that has been lodged in my brain for years. Herman Kahn Herman Kahn was a well-known military strategist who published On Thermonuclear War in 1960.  Kahn, considered a major spear-rattler in the Cold War, was parodied by Walter Matteau in...
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POM pomegranate juice has become popular due to research about the health benefits of pomegranates (it might help with erectile disfunction) and because of a huge marketing push in the last few years. Some time ago, though, I was reading a New Yorker article about how POM went from nothing–was there any kind of...
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In the movie The Shining, Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, and his wife and son drive up to The Overlook Lodge for a peaceful winter rest. The Overlook Lodge is actually the Timberline in Mt. Hood, Oregon. Exterior shots for The Shining were filmed at the real-life Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon. Find...
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Let’s look at a few connections.  We will start with… The Shining In the movie The Shining, Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, and his wife and son drive up to The Overlook Lodge for a peaceful winter rest.  In real life, the Overlook Lodge is actually… The Timberline Lodge Exterior shots for The...
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