Author: WeirdHarold

Britney Spears Goes Nuts

Britney Spears Goes Nuts

Pop tart Britney Spears, who has been pretty loopy in public for the last year or so finally wigged out and did the trailer trash thing: she locked herself in a room with her...

Would You Like Some Snow With That?

Would You Like Some Snow With That?

It isn’t even winter yet, and already mother nature is making it one of the worst winters on record for much of the US and Canada.  From snow in Vancouver to ice in the...

Evel Knievel, RIP

One of my friends is kidding me that I should change the name of this blog to “those are people who died”, because her I got with another RIP post. I guess in a...

Marcel Marceau 1923-2007

Marcel Marceau was quite possibly the most famous man that most of us never heard speak.  Marceau single handedly returned the art of mime and pantomime to the forefront of entertainment in his 50...

Colin McRae, 1968-2007

Being of scottish decent, I am always proud of great Scottish athletes.  Being a fan of motorsports, I have always looked up to people like Jackie Stewart and Colin McRae.  Now I have to...

Raise your right hand and lie

Raise your right hand and lie

Something I noticed recently… it certainly qualifies are weird, but also a little sad.  The picture on the left is recently “retired” Senator (R) Larry Craig of  Idaho.  Next to him is “retired” Durham...

Is Fidel Castro Dead?

Now this has come up a couple of times in the last year, but this is one of those weird sort of web stories I love too much. Seems this weekend noted celeb blogger...

Naked on a Glacier

Naked on a Glacier

Harold is a little split on this story today folks.  On one hand, global warming is certain something that almost everyone is concerned about, yet at the same time, Harold knows that even the...

E85 fuel and asian demand blows milk prices out

E85 fuel and asian demand blows milk prices out

One of the things that you learn in buisness school is that sometimes your great idea will have unintended consequences.   Last year, the US mandated that a certain additive in gasoline was to...

Bourne scores big

Bourne scores big

Matt Damon has proved that once again a good movie franchise can deliver the goods.  A 24 plus million dollar opening day makes this likely the highest grossing of the three movies in the...

RIP: Tom Snyder

Tom Snyder was the enigma of talk show hosts when I was very young.  In my teen years, I would stay up late when I could to watch his show on on a static...

Arab Princesses:  Can’t sit next to men

Arab Princesses: Can’t sit next to men

There are things that really make you wonder what people are thinking.   I never can understand people who come from a specific culture, and then are shocked when the rest of the world...

Lindsay Lohan Mugshot

Lindsay Lohan Mugshot

I always get a laugh out of celebrities getting in trouble with the law.  I think it is pretty much their weirdest thing in the world that someone who is that well known would...