• Weird Missouri: Precious Moments

    The Chapel at Precious Moments is just as beautiful as the Sistine Chapel. I have been to both. Obviously Precious Moments was painted in a more modern style, but they are on the same level. Amazing Place!

    No. I did not make this up.

    I’ve seen many things during my travels but the Precious Moments gift store and attached Chapel take the cake for being the strangest, creepiest place I’ve ever been to.

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  • Behind The Iron Curtain: Building Bridges

    I wrote before about my service in the military installation responsible for the road construction and clearing, bridge building and other engineering support tasks. Unfortunately, I’ve never got to see a pontoon bridge being built in real life; not that we didn’t try, but my comrades where so untrained and slow that no one wanted to wait for us to complete our bridge, especially that a real bridge was nearby. I am sure our commander didn’t look good at the post-exercise briefing with his superiors, and knowing that he was cursing up a storm on the radio, but what do you expect from a bunch of virtually unpaid soldiers who didn’t want to be there in the first place especially waist-deep in the cold water on the first day of April.

    Apparently there were troops in the Soviet Army who knew how to build a PMP Floating Bridge and here are a few videos to prove it. Those are quite fun to watch, notice that they start floating the equipment in under 7 minutes (it took us an hour just to drop all the links).

    httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpD7esUuwDU

    httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-hCTO00mPI

    And now we dance: Russian Army Choir Presents “Not Gonna Get Us” by T.A.T.U.

    httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCZNfeWGTkQ

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  • Behind The Iron Curtain: May Day

    ⋆FRATERNAL GREETING TO THE PEOPLES OF SOCIALIST NATIONS! Let develop and stregthen the peaceful system of socialism–deciding force of the anti-imperialist struggle, the bulwark of peace, democracy, and social progress!⋆

    After somewhat of a run-up to this day it’s finally here:

    httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMue1xI01Kk

    **this is more of a Red Square compilation from many festivities; I am pretty sure there was no military parade on that day.

    ⋆Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, under the leadership of the Communist Party–forward to new victories in the construction of communism!⋆

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  • Found In The Russian Store: Pickled Tomatoes

    This post is dedicated to the International Pickle Week – “A week so good – we made it last 10 days!”

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  • That’s The Ticket:A Prequel

    Recently my friend EmawKC (I struggled for years to figure out what it stands for and gave up) happily helped out the City of Overland Park with his almost voluntary donation.
    Through the miracle of modern forensic science I was ably to recreate the events leading up to the event. I believe it started something like this:

    This is a live reenactment of what happened just prior to the act of the donation itself:

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPx20Gb5Jro

    *At this point of my research another policeman pulled up behind me and ruined the cinematographic moment. Although I wasn’t doing anything wrong being on public street filming a public employee, I didn’t feel like hanging out there any longer. Maybe next time time I will do a better job of blending in.

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