In downtown Portland, OR you can find Benson Bubblers. They were put in by a Simon Benson who wanted people to stop drinking alcohol and drink water.

When I look at a Chinese horoscope, they sometimes tell me I was born in the year of the sheep, others say I was born in the year of the goat, and sometimes I will see one that says I was born in the year of the ram. Basically the Chinese can’t tell the difference either.

# 3 is for a Chu-Hi, not for beer

There’s a store in Japan where during the year they play songs from the Beatles, but during Christmas they play Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” on a loop.

It’s an energy drink called Yunker, full of chinese herbs, vitamins, and caffeine.

I am a temporary election worker and my favorite write-in candidate I saw this time around was a vote for OR-7 which is a wolf roaming around Oregon, California and Idaho.

I’d say the owl is enjoying it, because if you know anything about birds, they get together and “preen” eachother. Birds in general can’t get to the back of their heads and must rely on others to help remove the sheath on new feathers. So the owl probably thought of it as part of a preening session.

That middle one has the former Yokozuna Asashoryu as a school boy before he got kicked out of Sumo.