No one will ever experience watching " The Matrix " the same way my friends and I (and everyone else) did back in 1999. It was a complete revelation then, and I'm not just talking about the plot twists or special effects. I mean the very concept of the Matrix—the idea of people living in a simulated reality, the notion that the world around us might not be real. These concepts weren't part of the conversation yet. Today, people use expressions like “ escaping the Matrix ” or “taking the red pil…

This is one of our favorite Hollywood stories. Back in 2020 a photo album was discovered in a Belgian thrift store called Opnieuw & Co in Mortsel. It was a very unassuming pink, floral album on the outside, but inside it contained a treasure trove of Hollywood history, featuring photos of numerous cinematic icons such as Johnny Depp, Julia Roberts, William Shatner, and Harrison Ford, all pictured next to a sweet middle-aged woman with curly two-toned hair, smiling and embracing the stars . And…

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When @katrinkanova posted some photos of the Freeport McDonald's, which, according to her, looks like a funeral home from the outside and a retirement home from the inside, She couldn't expect the slew of replies she received from people all over the world, Sharing the strange and unique McDonalds they encountered while traveling or just while walking down the street from where they live. At Taupo, New Zealand, for example, there is a McDonald's inside of an old plane while in Cambridgeshire in…

I'm not saying I have a strange sense of humor, but everyone around me definitely says that—a lot! Some things just make me laugh, and I can't really explain why. It's not that I don't know what's funny about them; it's just too hard to explain to a normal person. I would have to explain two, or maybe three different fandoms , and then draw the connection between each of them to explain why an image is funny. By that point, it's not funny anymore. I've always been like that. My friends would te…

The internet is quite a place , huh? One moment you're looking for a pasta recipe, and the next you're watching a 3-hour Let's Play of a game you've never heard of. And then there's stuff like this— cursed mash-up pictures of celebrities you never asked for but, for some reason, can't take your eyes off of. Adam Sandler and Pamela Anderson mashed together into a swimsuit model with a bearded grin? No thank you! Or perhaps John Cena with the hair of Tina Turner? Never asked for that! What about…

There was something special about Toys R Us . It wasn't the first toy store chain, and it certainly wasn't the only one, but every time my parents mentioned the name "Toys R Us," I would get so excited. Then, when those automatic doors opened, I would just start running. I didn't know (or care) where I was running; I just had an inner urge to sprint down every aisle to see all the toys before I started actually shopping. And when I say shopping, I mean grabbing as many toys as my little arms co…

How well do you know your Marvel superheroes ? Do you know their real names, their powers and their weaknesses? That's cute. Do you know every character's backstory and the names of their parents? That's nice. Do you know their alternate reality version and can tell us in what comic book they made their first appearance? Pretty impressive! But what about their anatomy? Huh? Do you know Namor the Submariner on a cellular level? Have you ever seen Groot's vocal chords or Howard the Duck's skull?…

I love being Gen-X . It means I am old enough to remember a time when we didn't have the internet, the TV only had 3 channels, there were no cell phones and it was considered okay to just walk around your town looking for stuff to do. It makes me appreciate all the comforts of life we have today while also making me less anxious about life in general. people are so afraid of everything today but I still remember drinking from the garden hose and going to my friend's house without any actual way…

Live long and may the force be ever in your favor, Harry.

God bless Robert Zemeckis! The man is responsible for some of the best movies of all time —films like Forrest Gump, Castaway, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and of course, the Back to the Future trilogy, probably one of the best trilogies ever made. It's amazing to think about how vastly different each movie in the trilogy is, yet how they all come together in such a coherent way. The first movie is a small story about a 1985 teen who goes back in time and meets his parents when they were his age. Th…

I often think about the "ugly" fruits and vegetables in the supermarket. You know, the weirdly shaped potato or the eggplant with a smaller eggplant growing out of its side. When I see them, I immediately feel sad, transported back to those moments in elementary school when no one picked me for their basketball team or to that party I wasn't invited to. I feel for you, weirdly shaped potato—I've been there! It's not your fault you look different from all the other potatoes, and I'm sure you tas…

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