Sunday Links

Stage left: Photos of abandoned American theatres by Ben Geier. (Image above)

“Baboons are simply too small for leopard bait” The 10 oddest travel guides ever published. (a repost from 2016)

Nuclear Noir: How Oppenheimer’s deadly toy influenced noir film and fiction.
(via perfect for roquefort cheese)

Not Necessarily Cute The stray cats of Bangkok

There are currently more than 100 designated heritage lighthouses across Canada.

It wasn’t just black turtlenecks. Steve JobsBeat-Up Birkenstocks Sold for $218,000
A fan made his own.

 Peacock Vasectomies (I’m serious)

Don’t check the clock 15ways to fall back to sleep when you wake at 3am.

Grasmere Gingerbread Shop, located next to the graveyard that houses William Wordsworth, is twee as hell and is the ONLY place in the world where Grasmere gingerbread is made and sold.

In 2013 Torbjorn Pedersen set out to become the first person to visit all 195 countries in the world without flying. It took him ten years to travel 260,000 miles via cars, trains, buses, taxis, boats, shipping containers and his own feet. (Washington Post)

Sotheby’s has devoted an entire building to a new exhibition: Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own. You can wander through the dining room, the conservatory, the lounge, and one room few got to see — his collection of Japanese art.

100 things to make life better

Culinary plagiarism: Maybe grandma's secret family recipe isn't so secret after all. (via Kottke)

‘Dude, you cannot be naked in here’ Some folks seem to have forgotten how to go to the movies

Connie Converse was a singer-songwriter who has been described by fans as a precursor to Bob Dylan. One day in 1974, Converse and her music disappeared.

Loud and proud: Virginia woman sets Guinness World Record for loudest burp by a woman 

It’s corn season! Here are two winning recipes from Smitten Kitchen: sweet corn pancakes and corn and black bean nachos.

A tour of Gardiner's Island by Robert David Lion Gardiner, the 16th Lord of the Manor c.1976. It is the only real estate intact in the United States that is part of an original royal grant from the English Crown. (Thanks Bruce)

The account of an Englishman’s night on the town that morphed into a Marx Brothers movie. (via Miss Cellania)

Reunited and it feels so good: Owners share stories about finding their missing pets.