May 23, 2026
The Cafe Au Go Go was a night club in Greenwich Village located in the basement of the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre building in the late 1960s, and located at 152 Bleecker Street. The club featured many musical groups, folk singers and comedy acts between the opening in 1964 until closing in 1970. The club was originally owned by Howard Solomon who sold it in 1969 to Moses Baruch. Howard Solomon became the manager of singer Fred Neil.
The club was the first New York City venue for the Grateful Dead. Richie Havens and the Blues Project were weekly regulars as well as Harvey Brooks who was bass player in residence, the Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt played frequently. The Grateful Dead played 10 times in 1967 and 3 in 1969. Jimi Hendrix sat in with blues harp player James Cotton there in 1968.
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May 17, 2026
Financial domination (also known as findom) is a fetish lifestyle in which a financial submissive gives gifts or money to a financial dominant. Generally, a financial submissive (cash piggy, finsub, human ATM, money slave, or paypig) gives gifts and money to a financial dominant (findomme/findom, Goddess, money dom/money domme, money master/money mistress or cashmaster). Participants in financial domination can be of any gender, but the receiver (also called dominant) is typically a woman and the submissive is almost always a man.
Financial domination became more widespread and took on its current form after the introduction of the Internet. The relationship between the two parties often takes place solely via online communication.
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May 10, 2026
The Full Ginsburg is a term used in American politics to refer to a person who appears on all five American major Sunday morning talk shows on the same day: ‘This Week’ on ABC, ‘Fox News Sunday’ on Fox, ‘Face the Nation’ on CBS, ‘Meet the Press’ on NBC, and ‘State of the Union’ on CNN. ‘State of the Union’ replaced ‘Late Edition’ on CNN in January 2009.
The term is named for William H. Ginsburg, Monica Lewinsky’s lawyer during the sexual conduct scandal involving President Bill Clinton. Ginsburg was the first person to accomplish this feat, on February 1, 1998. Thirty eight people have done it since including Senators, Former Presidents, and Secretaries of State. Jack Lew, John Kerry, Denis McDonough, and Mike Pompeo have done the Full Ginsburg twice. Marco Rubio has done it three times.
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May 7, 2026
Vortex Spring is a commercially operated recreation, camping and dive park located near Ponce de Leon, Florida. It is the largest diving facility in the state of Florida.
Vortex Spring is a cold freshwater spring that produces approximately 28 million gallons of water daily. The spring consists of a 200 ft (61 m) basin with sloping sides and a cave which links the spring to the Floridan aquifer. Water temperature is steady at 68 °F (20 °C) with no thermocline, and is typically very clear.
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May 6, 2026
The Great Male Renunciation is the historical phenomenon at the end of the 18th century in which wealthy men of the Western world ceased from using bright colors, elaborate shapes and variety in their dress, and reserved these aspects to women’s clothing. Instead, men concentrated on differences of cut and the quality of the clothes’ fabric.
Coined by British psychologist John Flügel in 1930, it is considered a major turning point in the history of clothing where the male style stopped being as ornate and detailed. Flügel asserted that men ‘abandoned their claim to be considered beautiful’ and ‘henceforth aimed at being only useful.’ The Great Renunciation encouraged the establishment of the suit’s monopoly on male dress codes at the beginning of the 19th century.
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May 1, 2026
In internet culture, chud is a pejorative term for someone with far-right political views. The term is often paired with the Chudjak, a variant of the Wojak (a meme template of a black-outlined cartoon drawing of a bald man with a wistful expression often combined with “that feel”).
Chud is commonly used as an insult in leftist circles but is sometimes employed by the far-right to relate to one another. In non-political cases, it is used to mean a foolish or unpleasant person and is sometimes contrasted with the Chad (ironic alpha) meme.
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